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Content Creation Shot Ideas

Giving a view from your perspective

Please see the below list of shot ideas for inspiration for shooting scenes at home, on campus (if you're a current, in-person student), or at work. Please make sure people in your shots know what you’re doing and are comfortable being filmed.

At home

  • Video of your calendar or planner

  • Waking up / Morning alarm

  • Morning routine (Brushing teeth, washing face, etc.)

  • Uniform on bed or hanger

  • Breakfast

  • Commuting to work/school

  • Home office set up

  • Attending a virtual lecture

  • Coming home

  • Cooking dinner

  • Eating dinner with family

  • Meeting friends out

  • Playing with/caring for kids

  • Laughing with family or friends

  • Playing with/caring for pets

  • Exercising

  • Studying

  • Setting alarms for the day

  • Night routine (Washing face, making tea, reading, journaling, watching tv, etc.)

At work

Important note: You cannot include any footage of patients or any proprietary info. Your video will be representing Mercy College so be mindful of your background and activities. Conduct yourself in a professional way while showing your workplace.

  • Walking in

  • Tools and equipment

  • Empty rooms / rooms with staff only

  • Having a snack or meal

  • Talking with coworkers

  • Walking past coworkers, waving

  • Washing hands / hand sanitizer

  • Cleaning

  • Sideview of looking at computer (do not show screen)

  • Walking in hallways

  • Walking back to your vehicle

On campus

If you're a current, in-person student.

In the classroom

  • Entering classroom

  • Full classroom

  • Instructor teaching

  • Opening laptop, closing laptop

  • Sitting and writing, taking notes

  • Perspective from sitting

  • Full notebook page of notes

  • Exiting classroom

  • Walking in hallways

In the library or lounge

  • Pointing at building

  • Taking out books from backpack/ opening notes textbook book

  • Closing notes putting things back

  • Options for actions: reading, studying, example notes writing

  • Pointing at building like kind of like a tour guide

  • Putting in headphones/airpods

  • Entering

Outside

  • Buildings

  • Lunch/eating

  • Walking

  • Reading

  • Talking to someone/Waving to someone

  • Scan of walking pathway

  • Scan of movement in the area, people doing things

  • A landscape scan

Skills Lab

  • Entering Lab

  • Grabbing backpack and leaving

  • Sitting at desk

  • Hand wash/hand sanitizer

  • Sitting at desk

  • Tools in the lab

  • Hands on learning