Shot List Template

The shot list is a promise you make to yourself at 6am.

Whatever isn’t on it doesn’t get shot, and you find out in the edit. Most shot lists live in a spreadsheet that has drifted three versions away from the script - different scene numbers, missing the rewrite, no reference frames. Skrib keeps the list attached to the pages: the script sits in your Draft, the shots sit as cards on the Board beside it, and both stay in the same project.

What’s in the shot list template

A card per shot, with the fields a crew actually needs on the day.

• Scene Reference: Slugline and script page, linked back to the scene in your Draft.

• Shot Number: Ordered by scene, ready to reorder into shooting order.

• Shot Size: Wide, medium, close, insert - and what it’s doing emotionally, not just optically.

• Angle & Height: Eye level, low, high, over-the-shoulder, POV.

• Camera Movement: Static, pan, tilt, track, handheld, crane - with the reason attached.

• Lens & Framing Notes: Focal length, depth, and the thing you’ll forget by Tuesday.

• Subject & Action: What happens inside the frame, in one line.

• Audio Notes: Dialogue, wild sound, room tone, playback.

• Location & Time of Day: Grouped so the Board sorts into shooting order, not story order.

• Estimated Setup Time: The number that decides whether the day is real.

• Priority: Must-have, coverage, nice-to-have - so you know what to cut at 4pm.

• Reference Frames: Drop stills, storyboards and lookbook images straight onto the card.

Why build your shot list in Skrib?

A spreadsheet doesn’t know the script changed. A studio does.

• Shots Attached to Scenes: Each shot card links to the scene it covers. Rewrite the scene and the connection holds.

• Reorder for the Day, Not the Story: Drag cards on an infinite Board to group by location, cast or time of day, then read the day off in order.

• References Live on the Board: Storyboard panels, stills and lookbook images upload beside the shots they describe.

• Export for the Crew: .xlsx or .csv for the AD, .pdf for the call folder - the formats people on set actually open.

• Every Version in the Library: The list from the recce, the list after the rewrite, the list you shot. All three, searchable.

Who is this shot list template for?

• Indie Filmmakers and Directors planning coverage for a short or a feature.

• Cinematographers working from the script to a shootable list.

• Content and YouTube Creators shooting scripted video on a tight day.

• Student Filmmakers learning to break a script into shots.

• Commercial and Branded Content Producers working to a board and a client.

• Music Video Directors planning setups against a fixed runtime.

Know what you’re shooting before you get there

Drop the template on your Board, work through the script scene by scene, and walk in with the day already decided.