

ShotPro is a pre-visualization app for the iPad and iPhone that is unlike any other on the market. While there's nothing wrong with doing these things by hand, it is nothing if not incredibly time consuming, and it makes the process of sharing this work with collaborators more tedious than it needs to be. Unfortunately, outside of higher budget projects that can afford dedicated pre-vis artists, many filmmakers still resort to traditional hand-drawn storyboards and overheads. In essence, pre-vis is among the best methods for a group of filmmakers to carry out a unified vision of a piece. It helps department heads get on the same page as one another, and it helps them to communicate complex technical ideas to their teams in a way that is uniquely visual.

Pre-visualization is one of the most important, albeit underrated steps in the filmmaking process.
