Short Studio

Writing it. A few scenes, and who is in them.

• Scripts
  The scenes, written — and for a show, the seasons and episodes that hold them.
• Look book
  How the show is photographed — palette, wardrobe, what must never appear.
• Craft
  What kind of story this is, the shape it follows, and the techniques to make it with.

Planning it, and shooting the references everything else is generated against.

• Breakdown planned
  The scripts turned into what has to be there on the day — cast, locations, props, wardrobe, animals and effects — with a preview of whether each one can be kept looking the same.
• Scouting
  Photographs you bring in yourself — the trade's word for going out and photographing what might be in it. Places, objects, people: they shape the writing, and one of a place can become a shot directly. Bringing a photo in does not approve it for anything.
• Casting
  Who plays each character: the face in use, each era's turnaround, the marks, and the voice — cast by listening, kept with its sample.
• Shot list
  Every image the show needs before it can be filmed consistently.

Shooting the scenes themselves, against references that are already locked.

• Notes
  Everything checkable before anything is spent.
• Shoot
  The scenes themselves: one shot per turn of speech, each continuing from the frame before, every clip looked at before it is cut in with the cast's own voices. On each scene's page.

Cutting it, and then showing it to somebody.

• Cut
  Where episodes become video files.
• Sound
  The show's sound library: ambience and effects, found on Freesound or made with ElevenLabs, and approved before a render uses them.
• Colour planned
  One look across every shot, whatever they came back like.
• Delivery planned
  The same cut in every size and length somebody asked for.
• Pitch
  What the show is, for somebody who has not seen it. Comes after the pilot, because now you can point at it.