Guides
How to draw the plan, whatever you draw it with.
Short, practical writing about the documents themselves: what goes on them, who reads them, and what makes one useful on the day. Useful with a pencil, useful with this tool.
How to draw a lighting plot
What a lighting plot is for, what has to be on it, and a worked example: a small kitchen with a key, a daylight fill, an edge and a practical.
How to make a blocking diagram
Marks, paths and camera coverage. How to show an actor moving through three positions on one page without the drawing turning into spaghetti.
Free templates: when they are enough
A printed grid and a pencil genuinely works for a lot of shoots. Here is exactly where it stops working, so you can tell which side of the line you are on.
Every guide here refers back to the same drawing: a 6.5 × 4.5 m kitchen with two cameras, four fixtures, a flag and five actor marks. Look at the finished page, including the legend and the object schedule that print with it.