Shoot for the Edit
Start the Lesson
By the end you can write a shot list of three to five lines in the grammar of a short for a person who agreed, set your phone to 1080p at 30 and hold it upright, slate every take by voice and hear it on headphones before you move, run camera, sound and direction in a crew of three, bring the clips in by cable to two copies on separate stores and open both before anything is cleared, log every clip so a stranger could cut from it, and make proxies in DaVinci Resolve on a tall timeline.
Submit Your Work
What You Turn In
- Your shot list, photographed
- The consent line; three to five shots in the grammar of a short with size and sound; the hook, two stars and two to drop marked
- Screenshot of both copies' folders
- Every clip at 1080p30, shot upright, in your MD folder's originals and on the backup target; both copies opened before any phone was cleared; labelled Hand-made
- Your clip log
- One row per clip: shot, take, keeper, sound note — matching the list; a stranger could cut from it
- Screenshot of a proxy playing
- Generated in DaVinci on your own laptop; the timeline upright at 1080 × 1920, 30
- Roles sheet and reshoot list
- Camera, sound and direction each run at least once this week; every hole the editor will find tomorrow written as a reshoot line, and one line on your next shoot
- Clip of the Day: Dailies in 15
- 15 to 20 seconds, upright 9:16, exported at 720p as an MP4 under 30 MB (megabytes) and saved in your own Mufasa folder; the keepers in shot-list order, the hook first, sound checked; your name and Hand-made on the end card; the reshoot list written from it; the subject's consent covers posting; the Google Drive share link (viewer) in Asha, never the video itself; it is the day's post
How
- Asha, by Saturday's update.
Done when
- Shot list: Consent line; 3–5 shots in the grammar with size and sound; hook and drop list marked
- Footage: two copies: 1080p30 upright; five shots covered, slated, safeties; both copies opened before clearing
- Clip log: One row per clip with shot, take, keeper, sound note; matches the list
- Proxies: Generated on own laptop; upright timeline 1080 × 1920 at 30
- Roles sheet + reshoot list: Every role run once this week; reshoot list names each hole; one line on the next shoot
- Clip of the Day: Dailies in 15: 3 as 2, plus: the hook works in two seconds; the reshoot list names a hole the log missed. · 2 15–20 s; upright 9:16, 720p MP4 under 30 MB; captions burned in inside the safe area; end card with the name and the label; the receipt line 'none used' filed; keepers in shot-list order, hook first, sound checked; the reshoot list written from it. · 1 not 9:16 or outside 15–60 s, a person shown without a consent line, or no reshoot list.