Shot list

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 each title. — 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.

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.

The foot of Latentshoot’s shot list: groups D Coast and E Still life, each heading carrying its letter, shot count, running time and a “Calculated” tag, with the group’s own note underneath, and below them an Ungrouped band holding the one shot that belongs to no group. — 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. The band at the foot is where a shot sits when it belongs to no group, which is also where the shots of a deleted group land.

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. Sorting by tag gives a stylist’s board or a client’s folder its own list, and moves nothing out of your running order.

You get 12 tags per shot, 40 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.

The same shot list cut by tag rather than by group: bands headed “campaign” and “lookbook”, each carrying its own shot count, running time and “Calculated” tag, with shot 10 tagged for both. — The same rows, re-folded. “campaign” is seven shots and 3h 25m; “lookbook” is seven shots and 4h. Shot 10 is in both bands at once, without having moved out of the running order it belongs to.

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 comes from where the group sits in the order, so dragging a group into a new place re-letters the whole sheet, on screen and on the printed call sheet.

Is this built for photo production, or video?

Both, on one list. A shot carries a size, an angle, an orientation, a focal length, an aperture, a body, its lighting, wardrobe, props and styling. Mark one as motion and it also carries the camera move, the frame rate, whether sound is being recorded and how long the delivered clip runs, and it is scheduled from the same estimated duration a photograph is. There is no storyboard view and no scene numbering.

Write the list and the day follows.

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

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