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Coverage
aka Scene coverage
The full set of camera angles shot for a scene — wide, mediums, close-ups and inserts — that give the editor everything needed to cut it together.
Coverage is every angle a director shoots so a scene can be assembled in the edit: the establishing wide, the two-shot, singles or over-the-shoulders on each character, close-ups for the emotional beats, and cutaway inserts. Good coverage gives the editor options; thin coverage paints the cut into a corner. Planning coverage is a shot-list discipline — deciding the minimum setups that tell the scene and protect continuity. StoryboardCanvas Shotlist builds coverage plans per scene with lens, height and movement on every shot, and DollyAi can suggest a coverage pattern from the scene text editorially, not just mechanically.
In StoryboardCanvas
See Coverage live in /shotlist
Every coverage we generate stays linked to the rest of the project — change a scene heading and the coverage updates automatically. No re-import. No copy-paste. One project file from script to wrap.
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Shot List
The director's per-scene list of every shot to be captured — shot number, type, angle, movement, lens, and any special notes.
Blocking
The staging of actors and camera within a scene — where performers stand, sit and move, and how the camera follows them.
The 180° Rule
A cinematography rule that keeps the camera on one side of an imaginary line between two subjects, so screen direction and eyelines stay consistent shot to shot.
Storyboard
A sequence of drawn or AI-generated frames that visualise the film shot-by-shot before principal photography.