Educational Video
Planning Your Shots
Planning Your Shots
• Why?
Beginning the Plan
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Read the script
Find your location(s)
Video production schedule
Get cast member(s)
Make a list of necessary and supporting props
Make a list of equipment you will need
Decide whether or not you want audio in the
scene or audio that’s narrorated
Shot List
• What is a shot list?
Shot List
Scene
Shot
Type
Description
Eg. 1
1.1
MS
An example shot.
Done?
Shot List
Shot List
Production Title:
Shot No.
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
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19
20
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Shot
Name
Scene
No.
Location
Shoot Date:
Shot
Type
Angle
Movement
Type
Cue
Description of Action
Characters
Lighting Notes
Props
Types of Shots
• Extreme Wide Shot (EWS) or Extreme Long
Shot (ELS)
• Wide Shot (WS) or Long Shot (LS)
• Medium Shot (MS)
• Close-up (CU)
• Extreme Close-up (ESU)
Types of Shots
ECU
GoPro
CU
CU
MS
MS
LS
LS
ELS
OTS
There are no rules in filmmaking. Only sins. And
the cardinal sin is dullness.
- Frank Capra