Overheads

This is the overhead floor plan diagram for the Emotions shoot, drawn in Shot Designer. Every camera position, every actor blocking path, every lens, every move, mapped to scale across six setups covering both the real and otherworld hospital scenes.

What this captures is the geometry of the production day. Where the camera lives. Where the actors walk. How the dolly tracks curve through the room. The colored circles represent character positions at different beats. The red ones are Atul. The blue and pink are Taylor as she crosses between worlds. The arrows show motion.

Pay attention to how the two worlds share the same floor plan. We shot in one location, with the same walls and the same doors, and the diagrams make it clear how identical geography becomes two different emotional spaces depending on lensing, lighting, and which character occupies the frame. The morgue setup at the end is where both worlds finally collapse into one image.

For anyone reading this who runs a one-day or two-day shoot in a contained location, this is the document I bring to set. It's faster to point at a diagram than to explain a setup three times. The crew sees the day before we shoot it.