Shot lists
A shot list is the director and DP's contract with the day. Green Room keeps it attached to the scenes from your breakdown, so coverage is planned against the script rather than in a document that stops matching it by the second rewrite.
Per-scene coverage
Shots live under the scene they cover. Open a scene and you see the coverage plan for it, in order.
- —Shot size, angle, and movement
- —Lens and camera notes
- —Description and action
- —Reorder as the plan changes
Import a list you already started
Most productions already have a shot list somewhere — a spreadsheet, a doc, a note on a phone. Green Room can import an existing list rather than making you retype it to get started.
Export for the camera department
Export a clean shot list PDF for the people who need it on set. The camera team should not need an account, a login, or a data connection to read the day's coverage.
Common questions
- What goes on a shot list?
- Each shot typically carries the scene it belongs to, a shot number, the shot size (wide, medium, close-up), the camera angle, any movement (static, pan, dolly, handheld), the lens, and a short description of the action covered. Shot lists are usually ordered by the plan for the shooting day rather than by script order.
- Is there a free shot list template?
- Green Room's shot list is free to build and export as a PDF, with the structure already in place — so you get the template and a working tool rather than a blank spreadsheet.
- Can I reorder shots?
- Yes. Shots can be reordered as coverage changes, which matters because the order you shoot is rarely the order you listed.
The rest of the production file
Shot lists is one part of it. Everything below shares the same underlying production data, which is the point.