R+P Post 30: My shoot-board

In order to be prepared for our main shoot, we created a shoot-board. Now that we have produced our shoot-board, I think all of our group are far more confident that we are going to achieve all the shots we need to the standard we want.

One of the pages of our shoot-board.

We only created one shoot-board as we were only shooting at one location.
The columns from left to right on the shoot-board:

• Setup No. - This allows us to shoot in order of set up, speeding up our shoot as we don't have to waste time swapping settings.
• Time - Predicting the timings of shots allows us to have a schedule to stick to in order to ensure no time is wasted.
• Shot Image - in this box we placed our post-it-notes from our moodboard, this will help us frame and visualise the shots we are going to shoot.
• Description/Camera/Dialogue - filling this in highlighted to us any areas where we had shots with little variety. Furthermore this will help us when we shoot to instantly recognise the shot we need.
• Actors/Props - This will help us be organised for every shot so time wasting is kept to a minimum.
• Director/Camera/Sound - we will list which of our group performed the role for each shot.
• Last two columns - these columns will be very useful, especially when it comes to post-production as it will allow us to quickly find the best take for each shot and thus speed up the whole editing process.

As shown above, creating the shoot-board was useful for many reasons, a final notable one being that this massively cuts down the amount of paper work we will have to carry around on shoot day as it culminates several other documents into one.