Storeyz for YouTubers
Every shot list tool on the market is built for film crews with call sheets and script breakdowns. Storeyz is built for one person, one camera, and a video to publish on Thursday.
What goes wrong
- You sit down to edit and the shot you were sure you filmed does not exist.
- You have twelve minutes of talking head and nothing to cut away to.
- Your plan lives in Notes, your ideas live in your camera roll, and neither is with you when you are filming.
- You film in script order, which means changing setup constantly and running out of time before the B-roll.
- Batching five videos in one session turns into 200 clips you cannot match to anything.
What Storeyz does about it
Plan in story order, film in setup order
Your board stays in the order the video runs. Shoot mode regroups the same shots by location and setup, so you film everything at the desk in one block instead of jumping between setups all afternoon.
B-roll is part of the plan, not an afterthought
Mark where you will cut and what covers it. The footage that makes an edit work stops being the thing you run out of time for.
Tick shots off on your phone
Shoot mode is one-handed and made for filming. When every box is ticked you can break down the setup, and not before.
Batch without losing track
Each video keeps its own list while shoot mode groups every shot across all of them by setup. Film once, know that all five are complete.
How it works in practice
- 01
Plan the video
Break it into beats — hook, sections, payoff — and turn each beat into shots on the board.
- 02
Add the B-roll
Mark every point you expect to cut and add what covers it.
- 03
Switch to shoot mode
Your shots regroup by setup and location for the filming session.
- 04
Film and tick off
Work through each setup, ticking shots as you get them.
- 05
Check before you break down
Two minutes reading the list back. This is the whole point.
- 06
Edit from the plan
Every shot tagged with its file, so the edit starts as a lookup rather than a search.
Start planning your next shoot
Storeyz keeps your shots in story order for planning and regroups them by location for the day — then you tick them off on your phone as you get them.
Questions
Is this not overkill for a YouTube video?
For a single talking-head video, possibly. For anything with B-roll, multiple locations, or a batch of videos filmed in one session, planning is what stops you losing a day to setup changes and coming home short.
Can I use it while filming?
That is what shoot mode is for. It is mobile-first, one-handed, and reordered for the way you actually film rather than the way the video runs.