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Restaurant Video Shot List Template
Restaurant video has two halves that need filming at different times: the empty room, which needs to look designed, and the full room, which needs to look alive. Trying to get both in one hour is the most common reason a restaurant film looks thin.
This list splits them, and covers the kitchen and dish work that carries the middle of the edit.
Shots
28
Groups
4
Format
Checklist
The shot list
The space, empty
Film before service. Once guests arrive these shots are gone for the day.
- 01Exterior and signage
- 02Entrance and doorway
- 03Dining room wide, two angles
- 04Table settings, close
- 05Bar, wide and detail
- 06Interior design details — materials, lighting, artwork
- 07Kitchen pass, clean
Kitchen
- 08Kitchen wide during prep
- 09Chef working, hands close
- 10Knife work, macro
- 11Flame, steam, sizzle
- 12Plating a dish, overhead
- 13The pass — dishes going out
- 14Team working, wide
Dishes
- 15Hero dish, overhead on a clean surface
- 16Hero dish, 45° angle
- 17Macro of texture and garnish
- 18Dish being finished — sauce poured, herb dropped
- 19Three to five additional dishes, overhead and angled
- 20Drinks being poured and mixed
- 21Dessert
Service and atmosphere
Film during a real service. Staged diners read as staged.
- 22Full room during service, wide
- 23Guests eating and talking
- 24Food arriving at a table
- 25Server interaction
- 26Hands, glasses, cutlery, laughter
- 27Bar in use
- 28Evening light and ambience
Tips for this kind of shoot
- Two visits, or one long one: empty before service, full during it. There is no way to fake either.
- Shoot dishes at 45° and overhead. Those two angles cover almost every use.
- Film the kitchen during real prep rather than a demonstration. Real motion looks different.
Use this list on 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.