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The only document you have to keep up to date

Every row carries real photographic spec: size, angle, orientation, focal length, aperture, body, lighting, wardrobe, props and styling. Plus a duration in minutes, which is the number that turns your list into a day.

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Latentshoot’s shot list in table view: numbered rows under lettered group headings, each showing shot size, camera angle, focal length, aperture, lighting and an estimated duration, with tags listed beneath a couple of titles.
Every column here is something you already write down anyway. Nothing gets dumped into a note unless it genuinely belongs in one.

Structure

Groups are the shape of the day

A group holds each shot once, and your groups run in the order you shoot them: feed room, then stable, then prep, then ridden. That is your running order in miniature, and it is why the list reads like the shape of the day.

The letter on a group — A, B, C — comes from where it sits, not from anything you typed. Drag it and the whole sheet re-letters itself, on screen and on the call sheet at once. Delete a group and you never lose its shots: they drop to the bottom of the list, ungrouped, ready to go somewhere else.

Latentshoot’s shot list in table view: numbered rows under lettered group headings, each showing shot size, camera angle, focal length, aperture, lighting and an estimated duration, with tags listed beneath a couple of titles.
The letter, the shot count and the running time on a group heading all come off the shots underneath it. You never type any of the three.

Structure

Tags cut across it, on purpose

A tag is not a smaller group. It cuts across every group at once, so one shot can carry several — "Outerwear", "Hero", a client’s product line — and a shot with three tags shows up in three delivery lists rather than one. That is the second cut a group cannot give you: the same list, sorted another way, for a stylist’s board or a client’s folder, without moving anything out of your running order.

You get twelve tags per shot, forty characters each: long enough for a real label, short enough that your shot list never grows a paragraph of them. Capitals stay as you typed them, and "Golden hour" and "golden hour" count as one tag rather than two.

Latentshoot’s shot list in table view: numbered rows under lettered group headings, each showing shot size, camera angle, focal length, aperture, lighting and an estimated duration, with tags listed beneath a couple of titles.
Type a tag onto one shot and it is offered on every other shot in the project straight away, ready to filter by or add again without retyping.

The one load-bearing field

A duration on every shot is what gives you a day.

Everything else in Latentshoot — your running order, the light, the gear list, the call sheet — is read off the shot list, and the estimate is the field that makes it possible. Add up every shot’s minutes and you have the planned length of the day before you even open the schedule. A new shot starts at a plain 30 minutes until you have shot enough for Latentshoot to offer you better — on set is where that history gets recorded.

Use the table to build the day at your desk, and the contact-sheet view to read it back, one card per shot with its reference image. You can make everyday edits in either. The full spec — notes, references, styling — opens beside the list rather than replacing it.

All you need to add a shot is a title. Size, angle, orientation, focal length, aperture, body, lighting, wardrobe, props and styling start off at something ordinary — medium, eye level, landscape, natural light — and you can leave them, or fill them in later, at whatever pace the job actually needs.

Questions

About the shot list

What is the difference between a group and a tag?
A group holds each shot once, and the groups run in the sequence you shoot them, so the list reads as the shape of the day. A tag cuts across groups: a shot can carry several, and tagging re-sorts the same list for delivery (a product line, a client’s folder) without moving anything.
Do I have to fill in every field on every shot?
No. Only a title is required. Everything else — size, angle, focal length, aperture, body, lighting, wardrobe, props, styling — defaults to something sensible (medium, eye level, natural light, a 30-minute estimate) and can be filled in at whatever pace you actually work.
Can I reorder groups without renumbering everything by hand?
Yes. A group’s letter is worked out from its position, not stored, so dragging a group into a new place re-letters the whole sheet — on screen and on the printed call sheet — for free.
Is this built for photo production, or video?
Photo only. There is no frame rate field, no camera movement field, and no storyboard view anywhere in Latentshoot, on purpose — a shot’s spec is size, angle, orientation, focal length, aperture, body, lighting, wardrobe, props and styling.

Write the list. The day follows from it.

Titles, sizes, durations: however much of it you have right now is enough to start.

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