Listing Video Shot List: 42 Shots, Room by Room
A 42 shot listing video shot list with camera moves and cut lengths, ordered as one walking pass through the house. Copy it, shoot it, skip the reshoot.
A listing video shot list is the fixed sequence of shots you capture at every property so the edit is decided before you arrive. Below is ours: 42 shots across 12 sections, each with the camera move and the length it runs in the cut. Shot in order, it is one walking pass through the house with no backtracking.
The list totals roughly 104 seconds of cut footage, which is enough for a full listing tour and enough coverage to recut a vertical and a teaser from the same visit without going back. Copy it, delete the rows a given property does not have, and shoot the rest in the printed order.
What is a listing video shot list?
It is a pre-agreed capture sequence: which shots, in which rooms, with which camera move, in which order. It exists to remove decisions on site. The failure mode it prevents is driving home with four beautiful kitchen angles, no mechanical room, no rear elevation, and a seller who wanted both. A good shot list is boring on purpose: the same list at every property is what makes a brokerage's listings look like a set rather than a collection, and what lets an editor cut your footage without a phone call.
The 42 shot listing video shot list
Seconds are the length each shot runs in the finished cut, not how long to record. Record roughly three times that so the editor has handles at both ends. These durations are our own editing defaults, not an industry standard.
Approach and exterior, shot first while the light is even
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
1 | Street approach | Walk in from the sidewalk, house centred | 3.0
2 | House number | Static, tight, focus locked | 1.5
3 | Front elevation | Static wide, camera level, roofline not cut | 3.0
4 | Front door detail | Handle turning, hand in frame | 1.5
5 | Driveway and garage | Slow slide left to right | 2.5
6 | Roof and gutter line | Tilt up from the door | 2.0
Entry, the first interior impression
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
7 | Threshold walk-through | Push through the open front door | 3.0
8 | Entry wide | Static from the door, looking into the main room | 2.5
9 | Stairs or hall | Tilt up from the bottom tread, or push down the hall | 2.5
Kitchen, the room buyers rewatch
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
10 | Kitchen wide | Static from the doorway, both counter runs visible | 3.0
11 | Counter run | Slow slide along the edge at counter height | 2.5
12 | Appliance detail | Static, brand badge legible | 1.5
13 | Sink and window | Push in, ending on the view out | 2.5
14 | Pantry | Open the door and push through | 2.0
15 | Island reveal | Orbit one corner, or overhead if you have the height | 3.0
Main living space
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
16 | Living room wide | Static from the entry side | 3.0
17 | Reverse wide | Static from the far corner, back toward the entry | 3.0
18 | Focal wall or fireplace | Slow push in, centred | 2.5
19 | Window light | Expose for outside, hold on the view | 2.0
Dining
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
20 | Dining wide | Static with the kitchen visible behind | 2.5
21 | Light fixture | Tilt down from the fixture to the table | 2.0
Primary suite
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
22 | Doorway reveal | Push through the open bedroom door | 3.0
23 | Primary wide | Static from the far corner | 3.0
24 | Walk-in closet | Push through the door, hang rails in frame | 2.5
25 | Primary bath vanity | Slide along the vanity, mirror angled away | 2.5
Secondary bathrooms
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
26 | Main bath wide | Static from the doorway, operator out of the mirror | 2.5
27 | Shower or tub | Static, tiling and fixture legible | 2.0
28 | Vanity detail | Slow slide, taps in frame | 1.5
Secondary bedrooms
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
29 | Bedroom two | Static wide from the door | 2.5
30 | Bedroom three | Static wide from the door | 2.5
31 | Bedroom window | Push to the window, hold on the outlook | 2.0
Utility, the section most agents skip
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
32 | Laundry | Static wide, machines and counter in frame | 2.0
33 | Mechanical | Static on furnace, water heater and panel | 2.0
34 | Garage interior | Static wide from the inside door | 2.5
Lower level or bonus room
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
35 | Stairs down | Descend the stairs, camera level | 2.5
36 | Lower level wide | Static from the far corner | 3.0
Outdoors and rear
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
37 | Walk-out | Push through the back door into daylight | 3.0
38 | Backyard wide | Static from the far fence, house in frame | 3.0
39 | Patio or deck | Slow slide across the seating area | 2.5
40 | Yard feature | Garden, pool, shed or firepit, static | 2.0
41 | Rear elevation | Static wide, full rear of the house | 2.5
Closing frame
# | Shot | Camera move | Seconds in the cut
42 | Front of house, pull away | Slow walk backward from the front elevation | 3.5
How do you shoot the list in one pass?
In the printed order, which is deliberately the order a buyer walks the house. Exteriors first because the light will not wait, then in through the front door and out through the back.
- Do a walk-through with no camera first. Open every blind, turn on every light, close every toilet lid, move the bins.
- Shoot exteriors while the sun is even. If it is harsh, shoot the interior first and come back for the outside at the end.
- Hold each shot for six to ten seconds even though it runs for two or three. Handles are free on site and expensive later.
- Shoot every room wide before you shoot any detail. Details are optional, coverage is not.
- Call the shot number out loud before each take. It costs a second and makes the footage sortable.
- Check the mirror in every bathroom before you roll. The operator in frame is the single most common reshoot.
What do most listing videos leave out?
Four shots on this list are the ones that get dropped under time pressure, and they are the ones that reduce questions later.
- The mechanical room. Furnace, water heater and panel answer the first question a cautious buyer asks, and it takes fifteen seconds.
- The rear elevation. Buyers see the front in every photo set. The back of the house is what they cannot picture.
- The house number. It grounds the video and it is the only shot that makes a teaser clip identifiable.
- The walk-out. Cutting from an interior to an exterior is jarring. Walking through the door is the join that makes the tour read as one space.
What should never make the cut?
Coverage is not the same as inclusion. Six things get captured accidentally and should be checked for before delivery.
- The operator, in any mirror or glass door.
- People, including the seller, the neighbours and anyone passing on the street.
- The neighbours' property in any shot where it is the subject rather than the background.
- Family photographs, mail, prescription bottles and anything else that identifies the occupant.
- Religious or political items in the frame, which signal something about who lives there rather than about the house.
- Pets and pet equipment, which divide viewers more than sellers expect.
The last two are not only a taste question. A listing video is a housing advertisement, and what the footage conveys about who belongs in a home falls under the same rule as the voiceover does. That is covered in detail in our reference on fair housing language in listing video copy.
How long should the finished listing video be?
This list is built to cut three deliverables from one shoot, which is the reason for the overshoot. Trim from the bottom of each section rather than dropping a section, so every room stays represented.
Deliverable | Rough length | What it uses
Full listing tour | 75 to 110 seconds | Every wide, the walk-throughs, the best four details
Vertical for social | 25 to 35 seconds | Walk-throughs and reveals only, no static wides
Teaser | 10 to 15 seconds | House number, one reveal, the pull away
Portal or MLS cut | 60 to 90 seconds | Full tour with branding stripped, per your MLS rules
Check your MLS rules before you export the portal cut. Most MLSs require unbranded media, and the branded social version is not the file that goes into the feed.
Who should use this list unchanged?
Solo real estate agents and brokerages shooting their own listings, on a phone or a mirrorless body. Every shot here is achievable handheld; the only two that genuinely improve with a gimbal are the walk-throughs and the pull away. If you work with a videographer, hand them the list rather than a mood board, because it is faster to argue about a numbered shot than about a feeling.
Frequently asked questions
How long does it take to shoot 42 shots?
For a three bedroom house, budget 45 to 75 minutes of shooting once the property is staged and the lights are on. The staging pass beforehand takes longer than people expect. Shooting the list in order is what keeps it inside an hour, because you never walk the same hallway twice.
What if the property does not have some of these rooms?
Delete the row and keep the numbering. A condo with no garage, no basement and no yard runs closer to 30 shots off this list. Do not substitute extra detail shots to reach the count, because detail shots without a wide to anchor them are the first thing an editor cuts.
Should I shoot horizontal or vertical?
Horizontal, then crop. Every shot here is framed so the subject survives a centre crop to 9:16, which is why the wides are shot from corners rather than doorways where possible. Shooting vertical natively gives you a social clip and nothing you can deliver to a portal.
Do I need a gimbal for the walk-through shots?
It helps and it is not required. Modern phone stabilisation handles a slow walk if you keep your knees soft and your elbows in. The shots that expose handheld are the long slides, so shorten those rather than skipping the walk-throughs, which are the shots that make a tour read as one space.
Key takeaways
- 42 shots across 12 sections, shot in printed order, is one walking pass with no backtracking.
- Roughly 104 seconds of usable footage, enough for a full tour, a vertical cut and a teaser from one visit.
- Record about three times each listed duration so the editor has handles at both ends.
- Every room gets a wide before anything gets a detail. Coverage first, character second.
- The four most-skipped shots are the mechanical room, the rear elevation, the house number and the walk-out.
- Six things get captured by accident and should never ship: the operator in a mirror, people, neighbours' property, personal items, religious or political items, and pets.
- Shoot horizontal and crop to vertical. Native vertical gives you a social clip and nothing for the portals.
If the shooting is fine and the editing is the bottleneck
Most agents who stop making listing videos do not stop because of the camera. They stop because the footage is sitting on a card and the edit keeps slipping past the day the listing goes live. EchoPulse Media edits listing video on a 48-hour standard turnaround per deliverable, with revisions redone until you would post it under your own name.
Related reading: what real estate video editing costs in 2026, and what a real estate media package includes at the $1,500 mark.
