If you are advising your friend to request a continuance, that constitutes the practice of law. If you advise him to subpoena a dash cam video, that's practice of law.
If this case was being heard in the courthouse down the street from me, I wouldn't need a form for either of those two items. If it's the first hearing after the arraignment in the District Court, I'd say to the prosecutor "Can you get me a copy of the dash cam?". Then we'd fill out a pretrial conference report, and when the case was called I'd say "Your honor, I conference this case with the prosecutor and filed a pretrial conference report. We're requesting July 15th for compliance".
But if the case was heard in the court 10 miles west of here (still in the same county, but in another town with another sessions clerk) the process would be different.
One of my favorite self-represented stories comes from a few years ago. A guy I went to law school with was in court as a defendant. He never finished law school. When the clerk called the cases, many of the lawyers would stand and simply say "Second Call", but stated as a question. This was done by the lawyers who were there every day, and the judge knew that they had a good reason to ask for a second call. So this guy's name gets called and he stood up, walked over to the podium, said "Second Call", and turned around and sat down. That did not go well for him.