From the course: Audio for Video: 2 Tips & Techniques

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The shot list and sound plan

The shot list and sound plan

- Welcome to Capturing Audio for Video Tips and Techniques. In this movie, we'll consider planning, and hopefully planning well. You don't want to go out on location and make stuff up as you go along. Unless you've got several extra days to spend. So, all production teams go out on location with a shot list. Usually, the director puts it together, or a production manager with input from the director. In your case, you should do it. It clarifies what you need to do over the course of the day, and alerts you to issues that might make one day shooting too ambitious. Simply put, a shot list is a list of where you'll be, the location, and what you intend to shoot there, the scenes with all the wide shots, closeups and cutaways. Details about the lighting, props, actors, costumes, and sound, can and should also be included. For example, how many actors or subjects will there be? What will they be wearing? Will they be moving around or not? Is it outside, an exterior, or inside, an interior?…

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