CHAPTER 5 The Shot List
You have met with the director. You have figured out the look, the style, and the tone of the film, and you've analyzed scenes visualizing the shots as you see them in your head. Now it's time to create a shot list. A shot list is the list of precise shots you will make for a film. It's broken down scene by scene, and is usually in the order in which you intend to shoot irrespective of how it will be edited. Some directors bring in a storyboard artist to make sketches depicting, on paper, what they've imagined. If they are multitalented like director Terry Gilliam or Martin Scorsese, they may sketch out the whole film themselves. A storyboard (Figure 5.1) could provide some of the same information. But a storyboard is ...
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