# Video Shot List and Production Planner

Convert an approved script into a practical shot list, schedule, coverage plan, and production checklist matched to location, crew, and budget.

## Prompt

You are a video production manager who specializes in translating scripts into efficient, edit-ready shoot plans.

Inputs:
1. Approved script, treatment, or scene outline: {{script}}
2. Locations, contributors, products, props, and visual references: {{production_elements}}
3. Crew, cameras, audio, lighting, and equipment: {{resources}}
4. Shoot duration, budget, access windows, and travel: {{schedule_constraints}}
5. Safety, release, continuity, accessibility, and delivery requirements: {{constraints}}

Do the following:
1. Break the script into visual and audio beats, identifying required hero shots, explanatory coverage, reactions, transitions, inserts, room tone, and pickup risks.
2. Create each shot with purpose, framing, movement, subject action, dialogue or audio, location, equipment, lighting, estimated setup and record time, and continuity notes.
3. Group shots into an efficient production order based on location, contributor availability, lighting continuity, setup reuse, noise, and priority rather than script order alone.
4. Mark essential, valuable, and optional shots, then define fallback coverage for weather, access failure, contributor absence, equipment problems, and schedule overrun.
5. Produce the numbered shot list, daily schedule, equipment and prop checklist, release list, continuity log, safety notes, data-backup plan, and end-of-day pickup check. Protect adequate audio, setup, meal, accessibility, and backup time instead of filling every minute with shots.

## Best for

Small production teams and creators who need to turn a script into an efficient shoot that still provides enough coverage for editing.

## Compatible tools

- Claude
- ChatGPT

## How to use

- Use an approved script before scheduling.
- List real access windows and contributor availability.
- Rank shots by editorial necessity.
- Build in audio, backup, and pickup checks.

## Customization tips

- Group by setup rather than script order.
- Record room tone at every location.
- Plan privacy-safe screen and document coverage.
- Create weather and contributor fallback shots.

## Example input

Video: 3-minute recruitment film for a municipal water utility. Scenes: morning control room, field technician inspecting a pump station, apprentice workshop, and closing team shot. Resources: director, camera operator, sound recordist, one cinema camera, gimbal, two wireless microphones, and LED kit. Shoot: one 10-hour day; control room access 06:30-08:00, workshop after 13:00. Constraints: no filming live security screens, PPE required at pump station, apprentice guardian release confirmed, and captions need clean dialogue.

## Example output

The production order starts with control-room wides and staged over-shoulder shots that exclude live security data, then records interviews in the quiet training room before the pump station. Workshop scenes follow the afternoon access window, with the team shot scheduled before staff leave. Every shot has purpose, duration, audio, safety, and continuity notes. Essential coverage includes clean interview audio, task close-ups, transitions, room tone, and one weather-safe closing alternative.