Schedule & daylight

A running order you never type, laid over the real daylight

Latentshoot works out every start time from your call time, your shot durations and the moves between locations, then lays the day over the real daylight for that place on that date.

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Latentshoot’s schedule for one shoot day: a horizontal daylight band shading from night through blue hour, golden hour, full daylight and back, with the running order of shots and a travel row drawn along the same timeline. — The band above the rows is the real sunrise and sunset for this place on this date. If the numbers look wrong, your location is wrong — and seeing them is how you catch it.

The running order

Move one shot and every time after it moves

A row on the schedule remembers its place in the order and, sometimes, a pin to a particular time. It never remembers a start time. Every time you see is your call time plus everything above that row, worked out again each time you look — which is why the whole day can re-time itself on set without you rewriting anything.

Put two shots in a row at different locations and Latentshoot adds the travel between them, using the time you recorded for that place. You never type a move in, and you never forget one.

The afternoon of the running order: consecutive rows each carrying a start time, an end time and a duration, a fixed forty-minute break, then a “Move to Cuckmere Haven” row marked Calculated and reading “Two shots in a row are in different places, so the travel is scheduled for you”. Beside it the kit rail lists lenses and lighting, each line followed by the numbers of the shots that put it there, such as “Shots 10, 13”. — The move runs 16:00 to 17:45 because shot 12 finishes at 15:20, the reset takes forty minutes, and the coast is an hour and three quarters from the studio. Nobody typed any of those times. Until you give a place its own travel time, a move is 30 minutes.

The daylight

Golden hour is worked out for your own day

You get sunrise, sunset, both golden hours, both blue hours, solar noon and civil dawn and dusk, worked out from where the location sits on the map, the date and the local time there. Accurate to about a minute, with nothing for you to look up. Tell a shot it wants golden hour and Latentshoot offers you the real window for that day.

Pin a shot there and the day holds that slot open for it. If the morning has already run long and you cannot get there, the row tells you how many minutes short you are, rather than hiding it behind a running order that quietly looks fine. Days where the sun never rises or sets are named properly rather than guessed at.

The last rows of the same running order: a note reading “6m held open to reach the 18:26 pin”, the Dunes hero row badged “Pinned 18:26”, and under the last two rows the evening golden-hour and blue-hour windows for Cuckmere Haven on that date, each offered as a button that would pin the shot to it. — 18:26 is where that evening’s golden hour actually starts at Cuckmere Haven, worked out from the place and the date. The day holds six minutes open to reach it. The last frame of the day is offered the blue hour instead, because that is the window it falls in.

The kit list

The gear list packs itself

Name a body, a focal length or a kind of lighting on a shot and it lands on the day’s kit list by itself. You are not packing from memory, and you are not finding out on location that a lens was only needed for a shot you cut last night.

Latentshoot checks that against what you already own, so the hire list holds only what the day is genuinely short of. A zoom you already have, like a 24–70mm, covers any prime focal length inside its range, not just the ones that happen to read the same.

Latentshoot’s kit list for a shoot day, worked out from the shots: bodies, lenses and lighting grouped by category, each line marked with the shot numbers that put it on the list, next to a separate list of what still needs to be hired. — Each line remembers which shots asked for it. Drop the one shot that needed the 135mm and the 135mm comes off with it.

Company moves start at 30 minutes until you give a location its own travel time, so it is worth a quick check the first time you shoot somewhere new. And a golden-hour suggestion changes nothing on its own: it arrives as a button on the row offering that time, and your schedule only moves when you press it.

Questions

About the schedule and the daylight

Is this a booking calendar for client appointments?

No. Latentshoot’s schedule is the running order for a day you are already booked to shoot, not a calendar for taking new bookings. If you are looking for appointment scheduling for enquiries, that is a different category of tool and this page is not it.

What happens if I pin a shot to golden hour and the day runs long?

The schedule still builds — it never refuses to give you a running order — but the row says so itself: pinned to a time, with the day not reaching it until some number of minutes later.

Does moving one shot re-time the whole day?

Yes. No row keeps a start time of its own, so a drag, a deleted shot or a changed estimate moves every time after it in the same instant. There is nothing to press afterwards to make the day catch up.

What if a location has no coordinates yet?

The daylight band says so plainly — no daylight to show — rather than guessing at a sunrise. Put the location on the map and the real sunrise, sunset and both golden hours for that date appear.

See a shoot day build itself.

Add a day, a call time and a location to your shot list, and the running order and the daylight are already waiting.

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