Creating Shot Lists and Logistics Worksheet

I want to remind everyone that part of the mission of the Digital Pathways Program is to challenge you to apply your technical skills toward addressing community issues and exploring your own artistic voice.

The stories in the class are coming right along. Last week everyone pitched their story to the class:

1. Moe Moe is making a video about being in foster care. She's interested in acting so she may incorporate performance and actually shoot some scenes in a local theater.

2. Ricardo is an SF native so he is interested in the way tourists perceive SF.

3. Thuy is working on a story about her family immigrating from Vietnam.

4. Amy's family dog died recently so she wants to pay tribute to him in her video

5. Monjaro is interested in the importance of sneakers in his life and that of his peers.

6. Jonathan is working on narrowing his focus for a story that addresses child abuse

7. Ruby is interviewing her best friend's dad who is blind

8. Andrea is using her experience baking cupcakes to talk about herself in the form of a recipe for cup cakes.

9. Eddie's piece will be around the theme of violence in the home.

10. Trina plays the piano and her video will be about her grandmother, one of her greatest musical influences.

Everyone worked on their shot lists and/or storyboards in class. It has been a couple of weeks since the camera basics demo so Krystal is giving students a camera training before they check out the equipment. Moe Moe and Ruby received the training yesterday.

Ricardo started to log and capture his footage. He had about 20 min of video total, but he plans to continue to tape this weekend.

We will continue to train students as they complete their shot lists and create a plan for their shoot.

Below is a shot list example. This is your part of the pre-production planning before you shoot. It is your previsualization of how your shots will look. It is important that you indicate if the shot is a Close up (CU), Medium Shot (MS), or Long Shot (LS).

Shot List Examples

1. A student wants to shoot a scene of a family eating dinner. A typical shot list might look something like this:

a. Close up of an empty dinner plate being filled with food

b. Close up of a tuna casserole in a serving dish

c. Close up of steam rising from a plate of asparagus

d. Medium shot of a person sitting down to eat

e. Another medium shot of a person sitting down to eat

f. Wide shot of several people sitting down to eat

g. Medium shot of a person picking up a fork and serving food

h. Medium shot of 2 people eating

i. Long shot of family eating dinner

After creating your shot list, you should think about who and what you need for your shoot. Using the Logistics Worksheet you can write down what equipment and crew/talent you will need. For those of you conducting interviews, you need to schedule a time for the interview and book the equipment.

Your Logistics Worksheet will help you group the shots in an order that is the most efficient way of shooting. You can arrange your shots in your order of preference during post-production editing.

Logistics Worksheet

Location #1: _________________________________________________________

Days shooting:_______________________________________________

How much time needed for shoot: ___________________________________

Equipment ____________________________________________________

Who will be involved in the shoot:

Subjects: _______________________________________________

Crew: __________________________________________________________

Location #2: _________________________________________________________

Days shooting:_______________________________________________

How much time needed for shoot: ___________________________________

Equipment ____________________________________________________

Who will be involved in the shoot:

Subjects: _______________________________________________

Crew: __________________________________________________