Truthfully, this shot list is written here because we do not want to be looking at each other mid way down the day and see that we do not know what we are going to do next. We are only two people and our friend, we cannot afford to lose time out to play with the camera or even have to remember that there was that really good shot we thought we had last week. This list keeps us moving. It is similar to a cheat sheet that enables us to tick the things off a list so that we could in fact complete this project on time and not be stressed throughout the entire period of time we are filming.
The primary aim is to ensure that we are successfully getting approximately sufficient footage to produce our vision and actually make it look good to send to our artist. Nothing like making it home and working on an edit and realizing we forgot a close-up or a particular transition that allows the story to actually cohere. Having such a list ensures that we are first after the things that we really need. In that manner, were we begin to get time-starved or our actress makes the call, we already have the key stuff in the bag and we are not scurrying at the last minute.
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