From the course: Creating a Short Film: 03 Pre-Production

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Using Shot Designer

Using Shot Designer

- [Voiceover] Filming a movie is really about taking the script and then breaking it into little tiny, shootable pieces, and those shots that you get and the order in which they are filmed all have huge implications on the budget and the schedule, and actually, on the final quality of your film. In the upcoming training series on Cinematography we're going to look more at the creative aspects of choosing shots, but here we're going to focus on arranging the shot list to create the most efficient shooting schedule possible. In this tutorial we're going to be using Shot Designer, one of my all time favorite software applications. Shot Designer is a product of Hollywood Camera Work, it's actually designed to be a mobile app, so it is a little bit different with your experience as you're playing around with it in your desktop apps, you can't right click on anything, for example, in the application, and purchasing it is a little wacky, 'cause you probably want to purchase it on a mobile…

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