spec:shooting script page difference?

[Randall_Oelerich]

About how much longer are shooting scripts compared to spec scripts generally, if each shot has its own line and checkbox? This is how I am doing it for my second short film. My spec script is 10 pages. But then I wrote that up as a shooting script that is 20 pages long, with each shot that I want having its own line with a checkbox, so I know exactly what I want during shooting (my first short film was shot sort of off the cuff using only a spec script and I wasted SOOooo much time shooting material I did not use). Wondering if I am roughly on track.

Also, I took my shooting script and word processed it (lots of work!) into another type of shooting script, organized by location and actors in shots, and so that I get all shots needed for a given tripod location so I am not going from A to B to A to B to C to A to C to B back and forth with the tripod on location (all outdoors). Am I doing overkill, or doing something smart?

 

[Mattykins]

A shooting script should be the same length as the locked script. A and B pages are generated from the revisions. "CONTINUED" and "MORE" are added for scenes and dialogue areas. A revision slug appears at the top of the pages. And the scenes are numbered.

Shooting scripts are very specific to save printing and to keep the entire production on the same "page" and revision of the script.

And it's a colorful rainbow of pages. Any additional changes will get pushed to A and B pages to maintain the numbering. And revised pages will be marked and printed in their corresponding revision color.

I think what you did is integrate a shot list into the script. And then took a script breakdown and reformatted the script to match it. Maybe...

But what you did isn't a shooting script.

This explains it pretty well

 

[Rakesh Jacob]

I think what you did is integrate a shot list into the script. And then took a script breakdown and reformatted the script to match it. Maybe...

Good diagnosis Matt.

I wasted SOOooo much time shooting material I did not use

I personally like lots of coverage; after I shoot what I planned, I start looking for things and angles that might not be so appearent at first and usually I find really nice visuals that help push the scene artistically. Of course ALOT ends up unused, but unless you're rolling film or are on a horribly stringent timeframe... it's an inexpensive creative aid.