ShotList- Movie Shoot Planning App Reviews

I discovered this app because i am luck! Its a great hand on the well for production. And believe me, its not expensive at all. Its simple, but it does a important job to help filmmakers. I love it! I hope you create a version to use it in Imac.

Make it for mac too!!!

Nice to download an app that actually works, does what it claims and quite smoothly at that. Quite a valuable tool. Thank you.

and i found out how the color system works;)! wonderful filmmaking tool!

This app is awesome especially the ability to reschedule and copy scenes. Building lists of locations, characters makes forms fast to fill out. I love it and the price is right for an app this useful. It is also the only one Ive seen in the app store that has this kind of functionality. My only wish is that I didnt have to keep switching pages when filling in scene info. Pop ups and just being able to type in text fields would be a lot faster.

But plenty of room for improvement before its 5 star worthy. Improved sync with script writing tools is a must. Looking forward to seeing where this one goes.

This app has potential but is currently too limited in features. The lack of import functions makes it completely useless since the interface to create new shot is counter-intuitive and overly complicated. The app needs some built in sorting/grouping/filtering features in order to help planning. 13$ completely wasted. Congrats for having generated enough interest for me to send you my money but this app aint worth 13$ and Im very disappointed. I wondered why I had never heard of it, now I know.

Glad something like this is out for the iPhone. Just working on a small show, so it meets my expectations. Would love to see what kind of updates are instore.

I work with VFX. Being able to hold all my shot info in the palm of my hand is a Godsend. Paper and binders dont always fair to well on set when working with visual Effects. This app is film makers dream

Does a great job on set. Very cleverly made. It would be much better to be able to input data on a PC using a full sized keyboard. That is my only beef.

Should be an easier way to sync projects between iPhone and ipad

Cool app. BUT! 1. Only 26 shot per scene?.. Its awful. My scenes all from 20-25 to 40-60 shots. And if i need more?... At this time program just crashing when i try to open more than 26 shots. 2. Ingredible hard to import shots from Picture Library (Camera Roll) to app. First of all, Camera Roll shows very small icons, and for me is too hard to work. And second - i can import only one by one pictures, but my storyboard has 485 pictures. What i can do? Please. Give me option for import bunch of shots at this time (or folder import). 3. But what is realy sad - app havent real cyrillic support and if i export my project to Exel, and edit it on my PC, after importing edited project back to app, i see : all fonts damaged and coding is ruined. So, at this time app looking as very raw. Please, work in it.

This app is too good at what it does. Ive been waiting for something to go wrong with it for weeks now, but nothing. No problems, no crashes... Feel obliged to write this review.

This software keeps you organized when planning and executing shots. I use it even to "think out loud" how I would film something. I like it better than most other phone based tools because its easy and fast to use (it even includes shot mock ups) without compromising the essentials - you can print and email your work for collaboration. Awesome!

Started making review videos because I was trying to film the stupid SRAM rear derailleur on my new mountain bike, and then ran into issues with a cheap action camera compared to a GoPro I just got at the same time. Then it became a review video of those, then a DJI Osmo Mobile, and now other stuff. Point is, Im a software engineer and a musician with no idea how to arrange thoughts outside of notes. I just wanted something I could pictures with and have stock, simple images to arrange shots and bundle scenes for various locations. This does that. And if you have zero idea how to number your scenes or think the example looks great but cant figure out the shorthand terminology, dont worry: it guides you. Seriously. Just make a new one, and then touch each entry and youll be able to scroll for selections. Those cool stock pictures are also available once you select a framing for the shot. And you can add doodles for the storyboard too. The only things Ive had to really think about was scene and camera numbering. It will build a usable collection of entries for your slate automatically if you like once you enter basic stuff from what was scrolled. I tend to think of cameras by make and model (years of experience with more specific information needed in other professions) so keeping them mapped to numbers is something I was getting used to already. Much easier to get information out of the you had rolling around in your head to others and be consistent. Big help with media management using the generated naming convention.

Could not get it to add shots in other days added. No help.

This app seems pretty cool, and I could see it being turned into something very useful for a professional filmmaker. But to be honest, this app seems like its split between trying to be a stripboard app and a storyboard app. It doesnt do either particularly well, because its trying to do both. It either needs to focus on one, or add a ton of functionality into both sections to make it useable. Right now, its kind of neither/nor. Heres a short list of my gripes: Theres surprisingly little edibility when it comes to the storyboards. Why not have the same amount of editable details one has for the stripboard for the storyboards. Similar to a camera log. Let me note things like shot name (5A), type (CU, MS, WS, etc), description (MCU on bad guy), intended lens maybe, intended filters maybe, a note section (shoot this after shot X because of….), etc. Also let me reorder them.Marking-wise, theres a big red x option. A green check mark would be a good addition, so that there would be a difference between "Done" and "Cut". Maybe some sort of "shoot later" option as well. If there was a "shoot later" functionality, it would need to be made clear higher-up in the chain (stripboard mode, for instance), since it would be easy to forget about that one shot that you missed if its buried all the way in Storyboard mode. The Take picture option for the storyboard doesnt seem to work for me…. Can you only have 6 panes per scene in storyboard mode? Thats absurd. I couldnt figure out how to add more. The underlying principal of diving up a shotlist via a strip board is a little iffy to me. So often we shoot a single scene across multiple days. Or a single shot from one scene (an insert, for example), is pushed to another day. Or sometimes youll have a montage where you steal various shots over various days. There is no functionality for any of this anywhere. The app assumes a single scene will be shot in a single day, and that things will stay nice and tidy at all times. This is rarely the case. Some flexibility needs to be added without expecting the user to jump through hoops. Having to do math in 8ths is confusing. 3 3/8 pages should be 3 3/8, not 27/8. When you tap Scene, Page, 8ths, Location, Description, and Cast, it becomes editable. But you have to hit the I button thing to edit notes. Not consistent. Cast numbers dont seem to be editable. Nor is there anyway to assign a particular number to a particular character, aside from adding them in order the first time. Nor is it possible to view the stripboard with character number rather then character name. For some productions this number doesnt matter. But for larger-scale productions, its incredibly important for many departments. In stripboard mode, there is no way to add extra strips for things like the beginning of the day, company moves, lunch/breaks, etc. I havent tried planning out an entire shoot using the app yet, but I can only imagine how much of a nightmare it would be doing so on an iphone. Its great that its an iPhone/iPad app (and Im sure it would be a little less painstaking to do in on an iPad), but there really needs to be a companion desktop app to facilitate content creation. There also badly needs to be some sort of cross functionality between EP scheduling and Final Draft. Having to type all that stuff in by hand is a mess. It pay a little extra for that type of cross-platform functionality. I liked this app alot, and hope to see it evolve and improve. The recent drop in price is also a smart move. At the moment its just not ready to be used in a professional environment, but I can see alot of potential in it, and hope to add it to my filmmaking arsenal sometime soon.

I was just about to give this app a good review until I realized that half of my project suddenly vanished. This is extremely frustrating because I spent over 4 hours adding and organizing my shots. This app just continues to miss the ball. Looking into alternatives.

I just opened the app today to discover that it had erased over 100 scenes from the strip board. Boo.

I created a few projects but it crashes when trying to delete one of them.