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Does any openly readable shot list, camera/blocking breakdown or continuity form carry viewpoint, eyeline/look direction or screen direction as an explicit field, and if not, which existing field should carry them in a camera/blocking handoff?

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Negative result with scope: of seven shot-list or continuity templates read (SetHero shot list, Filmsourcing advanced shot list and log, Studiovity guide, the FSU handbook camera log, a textbook-companion log and a form headed School of Filmmaking), none has a dedicated look-direction, eyeline, screen-direction or intended-attention field. Viewpoint appears only as the value 'POV' of an Angle field or abbreviation; blocking and intended attention are left to free-text Description, Notes or Scene Notes. The only explicit Screen direction and eyeline fields found are on a vendor-described facing page (candidate -01). Proposal (synthesis, not a documented template): add Viewpoint owner, Look direction, Screen direction and Intended attention fields to each shot-list row, keeping Angle = POV for optical viewpoint.

Negative result with scope: of seven shot-list or continuity templates read (SetHero shot list, Filmsourcing advanced shot list and log, Studiovity guide, the FSU handbook camera log, a textbook-companion log and a form headed School of Filmmaking), none has a dedicated look-direction, eyeline, screen-direction or intended-attention field. Viewpoint appears only as the value 'POV' of an Angle field or abbreviation; blocking and intended attention are left to free-text Description, Notes or Scene Notes. The only explicit Screen direction and eyeline fields found are on a vendor-described facing page (candidate -01). The fields below are therefore a proposal (synthesis) for how to make them explicit, not a documented template. Proposal (discovery synthesis from the SetHero entries and the vendor facing page; not a documented template, not tested on a production): keep Angle = POV for optical viewpoint and Subject for who is in frame, and add four explicit fields to each shot-list row - (1) Viewpoint owner: the character whose view or emotional position motivates the shot, or "none"; (2) Look direction: for each looking character, frame-left/right or toward/away from camera, and the person or object looked at; (3) Screen direction: entry, exit and movement as frame-left/right; (4) Intended attention: what the viewer should notice first. Reference the facing-page eyeline diagram by setup letter. Use when a director-to-DP, script-supervisor or AI-generation handoff must keep optical POV, eyelines and screen direction consistent across setups. Template audit before adoption (procedure, not tested): list the template's columns; for each of the four concepts mark whether it has an explicit field, appears only as a value inside Angle, or only as free text; add the missing fields before the first shoot day. Curator qualifications: None of seven shot-list/continuity templates has a dedicated look-direction, eyeline, screen-direction or intended-attention field; viewpoint appears only as an Angle value 'POV'. Consistent with curator FSU camera report readback (CA-B295). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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    {
      "url": "https://sethero.com/blog/free-shot-list-template-and-guide/",
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    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.filmsourcing.com/advanced-shot-list-template-free-download/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://blog.studiovity.com/free-advanced-shot-list-template-streamline-filmmaking/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://fsufilmhandbook.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Camera-Continuity-Log.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://fsufilmhandbook.com/camera-continuity-log/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.uslegalforms.com/form-library/478153-script-supervisor-continuity-log",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://exodorental.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Filmsourcing_Continuity_Log_Sheet_v1.1.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3-euw1-ap-pe-ws4-cws-documents.ri-prod/9780815394310/forms-and-logs/14-Continuity-log.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://scriptsupervisor.com.br/blog/script-supervisor-template/",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
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Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] Negative result with scope: of seven shot-list or continuity templates read (SetHero shot list, Filmsourcing advanced shot list and log, Studiovity guide, the FSU handbook camera log, a textbook-companion log and a form headed School of Filmmaking), none has a dedicated look-direction, eyeline, screen-direction or intended-attention field. Viewpoint appears only as the value 'POV' of an Angle field or abbreviation; blocking and intended attention are left to free-text Description, Notes or Scene Notes. The only explicit Screen direction and eyeline fields found are on a vendor-described facing page (candidate -01). The fields below are therefore a proposal (synthesis) for how to make them explicit, not a documented template. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source
  • [proposal] Proposal (discovery synthesis from the SetHero entries and the vendor facing page; not a documented template, not tested on a production): keep Angle = POV for optical viewpoint and Subject for who is in frame, and add four explicit fields to each shot-list row - (1) Viewpoint owner: the character whose view or emotional position motivates the shot, or "none"; (2) Look direction: for each looking character, frame-left/right or toward/away from camera, and the person or object looked at; (3) Screen direction: entry, exit and movement as frame-left/right; (4) Intended attention: what the viewer should notice first. Reference the facing-page eyeline diagram by setup letter. Use when a director-to-DP, script-supervisor or AI-generation handoff must keep optical POV, eyelines and screen direction consistent across setups. · locator: synthesis from SetHero Angle/Subject/Description/Scene Notes entries and the vendor-described facing page (candidate C3-B210-UO-SP02-01) source

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