Video & Film • Target: 20 mins
Shot list from plain sentences
A scene described in words can become a plan without ever being pictured.
Steps to follow:
- Write your scene as six plain sentences about what happens.
- Turn each sentence into one shot: wide, medium or close, and what changes in it.
- Find or generate one reference image for each shot.
- Lay them out in order like a contact sheet.
- Check the sequence by reading it aloud. Remove the weakest shot.
- Add one line for each shot about sound, since sound may carry more for you.