Camera Shot List Final Look

For our film "Words Unspoken," we have officially completed our camera shot list. It's been really a long way, especially since we made an ironic (as we did it before with our first film) numbering error.

With believing that it would be easy, we quickly started working on the camera shot list. We started typing details regarding every scene using the script we had created. In Riley's room, which is our main location, we went into details of camera angles, motions, and scenario descriptions. Descriptions like as "Establishing shot of Riley's dimly lit bedroom" and "Medium shot of Riley sitting at her desk, writing a letter" were written on the camera shot list in order to create a small guide in case we needed it later on. It all seemed good until we realized we'd numbered our shots incorrectly. 

Our early start on our camera shot list show that our numbering on the shots wasn't organized and did not properly follow the usual numbering filmmakers use. A film professional brough it to our attention when we were going over our shot list together and were getting comments. He pointed out the mistakes in our process of numbering the shots. Our goal was to number the entire film in the correct order so we could follow this structure later when editing the film, making it easier to our editor.

That feedback changed everything. We changed the numbers of our shots. It was to properly structure the list by scene, assigning a sequential number to each scene's group of shots (1, 2, 3, etc.).

Although it didn't take a long time to change, the result is a significant improvement.

Our shot list is now well-structured, with each shot being properly numbered to its respective scene. For instance, you can observe how every shot now links to the different sections of the film. It switches between "Phoebe's POV" and "CIS" with different camera angles. Is also able to make it more precise in our shooting, this type of organization greatly improves our editor's work when later on editing.

We gained important insight into the importance of careful planning and paying attention to professional feedback. As we also realized small changes can make our work easier in many aspects.