Shot
List

I created the shot list before filming so that we had a clear idea about what we were going to film and how we would film it.  The process of doing the shot list was trying to map together how the narrative would work with the types of shots we needed to tell the story.  Each shot would reveal a part of the narrative.  

Initially what was tricky was fitting the narrative with the shots, I didn't want to be overly ambitious with the shots as we had little experience of filming but also I didn't want to be too conservative or boring and do the same shots repetitively.  

One thing I would improve about my shot list now that I have experience of creating it and filming it, is to improve the variety of shot angles that we used as we mostly used eye level shots. When I created the shot list, I very much had the idea of filming in a voyeuristic, Alfred Hitchcock inspired way and so I selected eye level shots as I thought this would communicate to the viewer the feel we were aiming for but after filming I realised that to create the right tone it is more about the closeness to the character than the angle of the shots.  

I learnt through the shot list that I had control over what we were filming, I could create a narrative on paper without filming.  It also helped us to keep control of the filming process, to keep to an order and work effectively.