Lesson 1 · 18 min
The shot list says what to film; the edit plan says how the film runs. Before you spend any credit, you decide the role of each stretch, how long it lasts, where each shot comes from, and which formats the film goes out in. It's the map the edit will follow.
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Goal: build the edit plan for your film: beats with a role, timing and source for each shot, and the deliverables list by format.
Five decisions before generating the first shot. Click on each one.
The edit plan is text and lives in your folder, outside any platform: if a tool shuts down, the film is still planned.
The example is the scene that runs through the whole course: "The first batch".
Write in one sentence what the audience should feel and, in another, the total length. Without a length, there is no way to add up the beats.
Start from the shot list from course 0: it already has the shots, the camera and the sound. The edit plan arranges those shots in time.
The quiet pride of someone who wakes up before the city does. A 45 s film, for the bakery's website and social media.
Give each stretch a function. The hook comes in the first 3 seconds: movement, an unexpected image, or a question. The ending leaves an image that works as a still.
If a stretch has no function, it goes. Change something on screen every few seconds so the eye doesn't tire.
1 | hook | 3 s | lit shop window on a dark street, wind | source: generate
For each beat, decide where the image comes from: generate (text or image to video, course 1), animated photo (lesson 5), your own recording, or screen capture.
Product shots and hand shots usually come out better recorded; landscapes and an empty dawn, generated. This column becomes your credit shopping list.
As a starting point, INEMA's video-plan-editor skill uses cuts of 0.8 to 1.5 s for viral video, 2 to 3 s for promotional, and 4 to 6 s for corporate. Adjust to your film.
List the deliverables on the first line. If there will be a 9:16 cut, keep the subject of each shot in the center of the frame.
The format the page checks, and a request for the AI assistant to draft it from your shot list.
Film: <name> (<length> s) Deliverables: <main format>; <other formats>; <version without score?> # n | function | length | what you see and hear | source 1 | hook | <n> s | <what grabs them in the first 3 seconds> | source: <generate / photo / record / screen> 2 | setup | <n> s | <where and who> | source: <...> 3 | <function> | <n> s | <...> | source: <...>
You are a film editor. Read the shot list below and propose an edit plan of 6 to 8 beats, one line per beat, in this format: n | function | length | what you see and hear | source: generate, photo, record or screen Rules: - the first beat is the hook and grabs attention in the first 3 seconds; - the last one is the ending, with an image that works as a still; - the lengths add up to <length> seconds; - suggest the cheapest source that solves each shot; - do not invent a character, place or object that is not in the shot list. On the first line, list the deliverables: <formats>. Shot list: <paste your shot list here>
Paste the file (or upload the .txt). Test first with the example that passes and the example with an error: it's the rehearsal, and it costs nothing.
Only for people who already use a terminal. Download the course from GitHub and run it in its folder: the rules are the same as on the page. For your own file, replace --exemplo with its name (plano-edicao.txt); it exits 0 when it passes.
python3 conferir.py plano-edicao --exemplo; echo "saída: $?" python3 conferir.py plano-edicao --errado; echo "saída: $?"
$ python3 conferir.py plano-edicao --exemplo; echo "saída: $?" OK: 6 beats with role, time and source · 45 s saída: 0
$ python3 conferir.py plano-edicao --errado; echo "saída: $?" Not yet. What is missing: - The Deliverables: line is missing its description (at least 10 letters). - Shot 3: the source column is missing. - The hook is not mentioned. saída: 1
The edit plan for your film. You can start from the assistant's draft, but the final decision is yours.
Write the Deliverables line and 5 to 10 beats in the format of the template, each with role, duration and source. Paste it into the "Check your edit plan" section and use "Download the file" to save plano-edicao.txt in your project folder.
Done when: the page answers OK: [n] beats with role, time and source · [s] s, with the total between 30 and 60 s, and plano-edicao.txt is in the project folder.
Change the source of at least one shot from "generate" to "photo", "shoot" or "screen", whichever is cheaper and does the job. Check again.
Done when: the page still answers OK: … and, in the source column, at least one beat does not say generate.
Four questions. The explanation appears after each answer.
Question 1 of 4
What is the difference between the shot list and the edit plan?
Question 2 of 4
Your plan has 7 beats and one of them has no clear role. What do you do?
Question 3 of 4
Why decide the source of each shot before generating?
Question 4 of 4
You will deliver the film in 16:9 and a 9:16 cut. What already changes in the shot?
Choose an answer. The explanation appears after you try.