Shot Lists

Shot lists are so. So. Important.

If you're a writer who can think in pictures, I envy you. I can think in pictures, but it's akin to someone tossing all the photographs out of their family album and scattering them all over the floor. It's difficult to make sense of it.

I think the best two pieces of advice anyone could give to a writer who seriously plans to film something is: Show, Don't Tell and Think In Pictures. That's really what this film thing boils down to. That's the "vision" crap those odd film people talk about.