R+P Post 13: Our Shoot-Board

We created shoot boards so that our day would be carefully and efficiently planned out. On our shoot board we included:

• A visual representation of the shot we wanted to take
• The shot number
• The location of the shot
• The time the shot would be taken
• The actors in the shot
• Any dialogue within the shot
• Who was in charge of the which element of the shot
• The amount of takes we took

We organised our shots by location as a way to save time during our shoot as it meant that we kept moving from different sets to a minimum. Other time saving methods put in place were deciding who was in charge of which element of each shot before the shoot as it ensured that all of our group was aware of what was going on. By assigning different shooting times to different locations we were able to manage our time very efficiently, tailoring breaks for our actors and crew. However, we underestimated how long some of our shots would take to produce , meaning that we fell behind schedule at certain points.

A section of our original shootboard

For our main and back-up shoot we refined our original shoot board, creating a more structured yet basic version. During out test shoot we identified shots we no longer liked and removed these from our shoot board. This meant that we were left with the shots that we were sure we wanted to include and were able to identify these shots with great ease. In the new version of our shoot boards we were able to take some of the extra columns out as we felt that they were no longer necessary.

A section of our final shootboard