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Blocking
aka Staging
The staging of actors and camera within a scene — where performers stand, sit and move, and how the camera follows them.
Blocking is the choreography of a scene: where the actors are, how they move through the space, and where the camera sits or travels to capture it. It is worked out in rehearsal and on the day, and it dictates coverage, lens choice and lighting. Strong blocking carries story and subtext without a line of dialogue. StoryboardCanvas lets a director pre-block visually in the Storyboard Editor and Shotlist before the floor, so the 1st AD and DP walk onto set with the staging and the setups already agreed.
In StoryboardCanvas
See Blocking live in /shotlist
Every blocking we generate stays linked to the rest of the project — change a scene heading and the blocking updates automatically. No re-import. No copy-paste. One project file from script to wrap.
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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.
Shot List
The director's per-scene list of every shot to be captured — shot number, type, angle, movement, lens, and any special notes.
Storyboard
A sequence of drawn or AI-generated frames that visualise the film shot-by-shot before principal photography.
Previs
Previsualization — rough animated or storyboarded versions of sequences built before the shoot to plan camera, staging and timing.