Director communicates his vision with ease

Challenge

 

 

Taking the directorial lead on a film, TV show, or a commercial is an electrifying and deeply satisfying experience, but it’s not without its challenges—stressful moments, long hours, and sometimes a sense of solitude. Your creative vision is the foundation of everything and being able to communicate it clearly to your crew is a key. A shotlist and a story board are the best tools for achieving this. Putting the shotlist together could be a painstaking, time-heavy task, whether you're jotting notes by hand, building a spreadsheet, or relying on conventional shotlist software. It’s valuable time that could be spent refining your story. Sometimes, you just don't have the luxury of time.

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Solution

ShotKraft empowers Directors to be organized and efficient in preparing the shotlist without dampening creativity. Whether you like to think about the best shots to tell the story sitting at your desk or soaking in the bathtub, ShotKraft makes recording your vision easy by providing an intuitive shotlisting template. You can use our advanced AI features to generate a starter shotlist that you modify, or as a sounding board to compare what you already had in mind. 

 

Real-Life example

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"I  understand now that I should't have to work this hard for my shotlist"

As a filmmaker, Terrance Harden knows his audience well. His first feature, "The Good Wife" has more than 16 million views on Tubi. He planned it meticulously - from planning each shot, down to color coding the tabs on his working folder. His second feature "Between Friends" is coming out soon. "This time around we didn't have the time for me to take a whole month to make my shotlist, the way I was making my shotlist" He needed to work with his producer to meet the shooting schedule.  

 

He used ShotKraft's auto-generated shotlist to kick-start the process. "It's 90% there, and that is the point. It just guides you, but it's your vision." Terrance loved the workflow. "I understand now that I shouldn't have to work as hard for my shotlist. It shouldn't have to be as strenuous, it shouldn't have to be as difficult as I was making it for myself." Even more importantly, going quickly through the workflow allowed him to dive deeper than he could have doing the shotlist by hand. "ShotKraft helped me tremendously"

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Click below to hear directly from Terrance.