Shot list

Every set-up of a scene as a row — size, movement, camera angle, framing, focus, lens, lighting, reference image and the place in the screenplay — ticked off on set once it is shot.

The shot list plans the coverage: which set-ups does a scene need, and how are they shot? It hangs off the project's scenes — without scenes there are no shots yet. You see the tab with the read right for shots.

The shot list

1 How much is already done: scenes, shots and the share done. 2 The scenes — one scene or all scenes. 3 All or only To do. 4 One row per shot.

Each row has these columns:

Imagereference
A reference image from the media pool — a photo, a frame from a film, a sketch.
Descriptiontext
What happens in the shot.
Sizechoice
Close shots (Extreme close-up, Close-up, Medium close-up), medium shots (Medium shot, American shot, Medium full shot), wide shots (Full shot, Wide shot, Extreme wide shot) and others (Insert, Over the shoulder, POV).
Movementchoice
Tripod (Static, Pan, Tilt), camera move (Dolly, Truck, Crane), handheld or stabilised (Handheld, Steadicam, Drone) and optical (Zoom).
Camera anglechoice
The camera height from Ground level to Overhead, with Low angle and High angle, plus a Dutch angle to the left or right.
Framingchoice
Single, Two shot, Three shot, Over the shoulder, Over the hip or Point of view.
Focuschoice
Rack focus, Shallow depth of field, Deep depth of field or Tilt-shift.
Lens, Camera, Lightingtext
The shot's focal length, camera and lighting set-up.
Notestext
Whatever else the team needs to know.
Screenplaylink
The place in the screenplay the shot belongs to.
Donetick
Ticked off on set as soon as the shot is in the can.

Adding, ordering, ticking off shots

Add shot appends a new shot to the scene. You change the order by dragging or through the menu on the shot; the numbers follow the order. Mark as done ticks a shot off, Mark as open takes the tick back. Delete shot asks first; the remaining shots are renumbered.

Connecting with the screenplay

Assign a place in the screenplay connects the shot with the place in the screenplay it covers. Afterwards Open in the screenplay opens exactly that place, Show the sides shows the scene's text beside the shot list, and Undo the link removes the connection again.

What happens when …

When …then …
there are no scenes yetthe shot list says you create scenes first.
you delete a shotthe remaining ones are renumbered.
you choose To doonly the shots not ticked off yet are shown.
the assigned place in the screenplay changesthe shot stays connected; Open in the screenplay jumps to the new place.
several people tick off on seteach sees the others' state at once.
Revisions, translations, sides
Record versions of the screenplay as coloured revisions and restore them, have the screenplay translated into other languages and show actors only their own scenes.
Storyboard
A scene as a sequence of pictures — frames with image, action, sound and camera, ordered per scene.