One Shot is a floor-plan tool you can use with a finger or a mouse. Place cameras, lights, actors and props, work out your shots and hand the crew a PDF with the shot list and the light list.
Put it all on one canvas before shoot day, then export it for the crew.
Place cameras with a field-of-view cone, pick lens and shot size, assign shot types and draw tracking paths with ghost cameras (SHOT 1.1, 1.2).
25 fixture types with beam angle, intensity, colour and on/off, plus stands, truss and cherrypicker rigging. Group fixtures by universe and patch number to control them together.
Draw walls, doors, windows, stairs, streets, sidewalks and highways, including curves, with snapping and a measurement scale.
Top-view actors with name labels and a skin tone you choose, so everyone in frame is easy to tell apart.
34 built-in props. Import your own images as custom props and keep them in a prop library for future projects.
Floor plan, shot list and light list in one PDF. The shot list has storyboard thumbnails and grouped camera rows. The light list covers every placed light with its colour or CCT value, what it is mounted to, its universe and its patch number.
Import a screenplay as a PDF. Scenes and a character list are created for you.
Turn a camera setup into a pencil-sketch storyboard frame based on what is in front of the lens.
Keep projects and scenes in step across phone, tablet and desktop.
The app runs right here on the page. Open a tool in the dock, place something on the canvas and see how it works.
The default tool. Everything you place on the plan can be picked up and changed.
Choose sensor size, lens, shot size and equipment before you place the camera. The lens list shows the field of view in degrees for the sensor you picked, and the cone on the plan matches it.
After placing, tap the camera againPress and hold a camera while you turn it with the rotate handle, and the Pan menu opens. Use it to add a pan position or delete one.
Give each actor a name, a role (lead, support or extra), a marker colour and a skin tone. Save the character to the project and it is ready to place again in any scene.
With a script import, the character list is already filled in for you.
Five groups of fixtures, from lamp heads to rigging and power. Each fixture has beam angle, intensity, colour and on/off controls where they make sense.
Select a lamp and tick or untick Label next to patch number, beam angle, intensity, direction, CCT and colour. Only the ticked values appear in the label on the plan, so you can keep it short and readable or show everything for a lighting plot.
Walls, doors, windows and openings snap to the wall they sit in. Stairs, roads and shapes are placed by tapping the canvas. Walls, streets, sidewalks and highways can be bent into curves.
Switch on the lock and structure becomes click-through, so you can place a camera or an actor right on top of a street.
Save the finished floor plan to reuse it later in the project.
The same press-and-hold works for walls, streets, sidewalks and highways. Stairs use a different handle: drag the diamond to add or remove sections.
34 built-in props in seven groups: living room, bedroom, kitchen, bathroom, exterior, accessories and animals. Tap one, then tap the canvas to place it.
Need something else? Import any image, such as a photo, a sketch or a logo, and place it as a custom prop. Move, rotate and scale it like any built-in one.
Every prop can get its own individual colour, so a sofa, a table or a car matches the look you need.
Save a custom prop to the Prop Library and it is there for your next project. The library shows each prop with its name and size, and you can delete the ones you no longer need.
Write notes straight on the plan. Pick size, bold, italic, underline and a colour, then tap the canvas to place the note.
Sketch directly on the canvas, for a camera move, a mark on the floor or any quick idea. Set the stroke width and colour, draw, then press Finish to turn the drawing into an object on your plan.
Import a floor plan, a location photo or a sketch and build on top of it. The image sits behind everything else as a reference layer.
Switches the whole canvas between a light day look and a dark night look. Pick the one that matches the scene you are planning. The setting is saved with the scene.
Tap the button to cycle through three modes.
Lists every camera in the scene with its description, equipment, lens, shot size and shot type, in the order you plan to shoot.
Every production is a project. Open, rename or delete projects here. Each project holds its characters, props and floor plans, and any number of scenes.
Creating a new project is part of the full app.
Switch between the scenes of the current project. Each scene keeps its own camera setups, lighting and day or night mode, while characters and the prop library are shared across the project.
Creating a new scene or a scene part is part of the full app.
Opens a preview before anything is saved.
Saving the PDF is part of the full app.
Send a project or scene to someone else, or keep your projects in sync across devices through the cloud. Cloud sync is coming soon.
This is part of the full app.
Steps back through your last changes, up to 50 steps. Moves, placements, deletions and edits are all covered.
The arrow at the end of the bar opens and closes it. Tap any button in it to see what it does.
A typical pre-production flow.
Create, rename, open and delete scenes and scene parts. Each keeps its own items and its own day or night mode.
Snap toggle, 50-step undo, lock toggles for structure and props, pinch-zoom, two-finger pan, annotations and a day and night theme.
Projects and scenes stay up to date on phone, tablet and desktop.
Send the director, DoP or gaffer the latest plan. Project and scene export already work today.
A cloud copy of every project, scene, storyboard and background image.
Screenshots from the app are on the way.
I am Alex Bloom, a director of photography. One Shot began as a tool for my own prep.
Every time I planned a shoot I needed several different apps to do one job: one for the floor plan, another for the shot list, another for the lighting, and something else again to get it all onto paper. None of the tools out there had what I wanted in one place.
So I built the app around my own needs. It thinks the way I plan: cameras, lenses and shot sizes, actors, lights with their universes and patch numbers, and a PDF that hands it all to the crew. Seen from a DoP's side, I believe it can suit other people just as well.