Sample output

One scene, all the way through.

The same kitchen, three ways: what you work in, what gets drawn, and the actual PDF you send the gaffer. Nothing here is a mock-up, the PDF below is a real export you can open and read.

Late Shift · Kitchen, night · Shot 4, the argument

Floor plan of a 6.5 by 4.5 metre kitchen. CAM A sits at the door end on a 35 mm lens with its angle-of-view cone shaded; CAM B sits against the left wall on a 50 mm with its cone switched off. L1, a 3200K fresnel, keys from the top left; L2, a 5600K panel, comes through the window; L3, a 4300K tube, edges from the right wall; L4, a 2700K practical, sits on the counter. G1, a flag, cuts a wedge out of L2's beam. Maya crosses through three numbered marks on a curved dashed path; Joel moves once and turns. A counter, a dining table and two chairs are drawn at real size. — Screenshot of the app canvas · room 6.50 × 4.50 m 2 cameras · 4 fixtures · 1 flag · 5 marks · 4 set pieces

Mixed sources

Four colour temperatures

3200K tungsten key, 5600K daylight through the window, a 4300K tube on the wall and a 2700K practical on the counter. Each lamp tints to its own Kelvin and prints the number, so the mixed-source problem is visible before the day.

Grip

A flag that removes light

G1 sits in L2's beam and the wash behind it is genuinely gone. The cut is hard or soft depending on how big the source is, because the throw leaves the fixture's whole face rather than a point.

Blocking

Five marks and a turn

Maya walks three positions on a path that bows around the table; Joel moves once and turns on the spot. Ghosts, dashed path and direction arrows all print with the drawing.

What you work in

The ShotPlots editor showing the kitchen scene: tool column on the left, the plan with tinted throws and blocking paths in the middle, and the Key panel on the right listing every object with fixture names, heights and per-object print toggles. — **This is the whole interface.** Eight tools down the left, the plan in the middle, every object listed on the right. There is no project dashboard, no onboarding tour and no settings you have to visit first; you land on a grid and draw.

The properties panel open on light L1, showing name, note, type, fixture, model, height, colour temperature toggle with a Kelvin preset and value, show-throw toggle, and throw shape and angle. — **Click a thing, get its controls.** Name, model, height, Kelvin, throw shape and angle, with a live preview as you type on the fields that actually change the drawing. Rename, duplicate and delete are in the same panel, all undoable.

The five-minute version

A different scene from the one above, recorded in the app: room, furniture, fixtures, grip, actors, blocking, turns. Nothing open but a browser tab. Use the controls to scrub through it.

What the crew actually gets

Here is the real file, the whole project, so it carries the shot above and its reverse, plus the legend. Scroll it, zoom it, select the text, download it and send it to the most sceptical gaffer you know.

Real export · 3 pages · A4 landscape · vector Download the PDF

A plain PDF, no reader, no plug-in, no account, nothing to sign up for.

What is on the plan, object by object

Shot 4, written out in full. The PDF prints its own, tighter version of this beside the drawing: open the file above to see the real thing
Key	Type	Fixture / lens	Height	Colour	Note
CAM A	Camera	35 mm	1.4 m	n/a	Door end, facing up the room. Pushes in to mark 2
CAM B	Camera	50 mm	1.2 m	n/a	Clean single on Joel. Cone toggled off, cones are per-camera, so you show the one you are talking about
L1	Key light	ARRI 650 Fresnel	2.4 m	3200 K	Front left, angled into the actors
L2	Fill light	SkyPanel S60	2.6 m	5600 K	Window daylight, camera right. Flagged by G1
L3	Edge light	Astera Titan 4 ft	2.2 m	4300 K	Right wall, throwing its full length
L4	Practical	Table lamp	1.1 m	2700 K	On the counter, in shot
G1	Grip	Flag, 0.6 m	n/a	n/a	Cuts L2 off the back wall
MAYA	Actor	n/a	n/a	Green	Three marks. Path bows around the table
JOEL	Actor	n/a	n/a	Red	Two marks, turns 40° on the second
SET	Props	Counter · table · 2 chairs	n/a	n/a	Drawn at real size: the table is 1.6 × 0.9 m

Why it reads on set

It is a drawing, not a screenshot

The PDF is rebuilt from the plan at print scale, so how far you happened to be zoomed in never leaks into it. Text stays selectable and lines stay sharp at any size.

Names are frozen on placement

A light is called L1 from the moment you place it. Change it from a fresnel to an HMI and it is still L1, because someone has already written L1 on a piece of tape.

Everything is to scale

Every room prints dimensioned, with a scale bar. If the plan says the camera is 3 m back, the drawing agrees, and a tape measure on the day agrees with both.

Draw your own

Nothing above needed a manual

No account, no install, no trial clock: a browser tab and a room to draw. The plan above took one sitting, and the PDF under it came straight out of the same file.

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