Shot List

Hi guys, in terms of planning our music video, we have recently created a shot list (in replacement of a storyboard). A shot list is a full log of all the shots we want to include in our music video; essentially it is a checklist filled with minute details that will give our music video a sense of direction and efficiency. Shot lists help you consider shooting footage based on location and set up; not necessarily in order of the story. With a shot list ready you can more quickly shoot all the scenes at your chosen location and then shoot the rest at a later date. For example, in terms of my production, we are planning to shoot in Matlock (a location 30 minutes away from us), meaning we will try to take all these shots in one day in this location and with the shot list, we are able to tick off which shots we have taken as we go so we are assured, we have not left any out. 

When filling in each row in the shot list, it’s important to take into consideration the following elements:

• Characters in the shot
• Type of shot
• Camera movement
• Major actions
• Important objects

(The grand purpose of the shot list is to make sure that every part of the script is assigned a shot.)

As a group, we decided to create a shot list instead of a storyboard as we felt it would be more beneficial for ourselves. We already knew what all the angles we had mentioned looked like and the locations we were going to film in, so drawing these out was not time worthy and instead we wanted to focus on each individual shot and how many seconds we would use them for. In comparison to our thriller, our music video will have a lot more shots, which is another reason we thought the storyboard would not be time efficient. 

For the shot list, you can see below, we used four main titles - shot, shot length, location and description. The shot represented the camera angle we would take the clip at; the clip length stated how long we would include it for; the location stated whether the shot would be in Matlock, outdoors or the studio, indoors; and the description shows a brief explanation on what we will be doing in each shot and the mis-en-scene, meaning we wrote down any props we needed. By creating this shot list, it ensured we had an idea for each second of the song and would be able to fill it and also, as it was created on a word document, it made it easy for us to go back in and change certain shots if we came up with new/better ideas.

As you can see from the shot list, there is multiple mistakes in the description part of the list where we mentioned Savannah instead of Eloise. Savannah (myself) was supposed to be the main artist for the video until we decided Eloise (another member of the group) would fit the role better, meaning we changed the character but decided to keep my name (Savannah) as we felt it was better for promotion and we had already started on the creation of the website. Where it says 'Savannah', please ignore it and remember, Eloise is the main artist. (To make more sense of this, please read my 'Salt Sisters Background' post). 
Shot List from savsalt2404