How to Make a SHOT LIST - Best Shot List for Film Template

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This is a very informative video but I think that close-ups for be kept for special moments otherwise you could fall victim to the law of diminishing returns

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Excelent tutorial. For a mma training video, to a shot list, what shot types do you indicate? Thanks

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Great question👍🏻 I’d suggest wide shots to show the entire action/ move demonstration, and then close ups to show specific details. Hope that’s helpful.

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I would be also interesting to see composition in visual design. Or maybe how to do a shot list or even creating a Pre-line shot plan with your script reference film scripts. I enjoyed this video edited very well.

[@film.academy]

Thanks for supporting my channel! Great comments. Visual design, photographs, and paintings are all wonderful inspiration for your filmmaking. Before making a shot list, I recommend the director and cinematographer get together and share with each other visual references that inspire them and the film they are planning to make. Pick a painter whose composition or color palette you like, or maybe it’s a photographer or designer, or most likely it’s scenes from another film that you love and want to be inspiration for your film.

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Very nice and informative video. One question: Do you add your thoughts for camera movements in the description to the right side of the shot list?

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Yes, though keep them short in the actual shot list. Maybe 5 or 6 words. Don’t write a paragraph;) The shot list is a document you share with other crews members (cinematographer, 1st AD, Producer), and you want it to be a guide for them as well, but they don’t need all of the details you may have in your head. As the Director, you’ll have your own notebook or maybe the script, with detailed notes about each shot and each scene. Hope this is helpful;)

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What’s the difference between shot list and storyboard? Btw good video!

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Thank you. Great question. A shot list is a tool filmmakers use on set to make sure they shoot all the footage they think they need for the editing room. A storyboard is like a comic strip version of your movie. It includes the shots and how they might be editing together. The shot list is your list of ingredients, and the storyboard is what the finish dish will look like…okay it’s not a perfect analogy, but hopefully you get the gist😁

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I subscribed… but I have a question… with the seemingly infinite ways to shoot a scene how do you decide what to shoot? If you watch Tony Scott’s film he has multiple different angles in just a few seconds of film. I can’t even imagine how to plan something like that

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Storyboards are great tools to visualize and communicate with your cinematographer and editor. A shot list is more functional as an on-set tool, especially for the 1st AD and rest of the crew. Also, a storyboard may have the same shot on it multiple times, same as a comic strip. While shot list is more economical and a better guide for shooting.

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Great video but do not suggest to anyone to have as many close ups as possible. This is bad advice because overusing or abusing close-ups is a crutch for poor blocking and staging. Directors would rather learn to block and stage actors AND THEN integrate close-ups into that.

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Thanks for watching my video and for your perspective. It is very important, as you mention, for directors to learn blocking. That said, shooting enough close-ups does not preclude or limit that. From my experience, many beginning filmmakers focus too much on shooting wide shots and then run out of time on set to get enough close-ups. Having a shot list that includes a variety of shots is my main point, and close-ups are an important element to capture. At the end of the day, you find your film in the editing room. Your #1 goal on set is your shoot enough great footage to make a great movie.

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