From How to Shoot Video that Doesn’t Suck, Page 77:
The easiest way to plan a video that’s more complicated than “point at party guests” is by using a shot list.
A shot list is exactly what it sounds like: a list of all the shots you might want in your video. I brainstorm shot lists for every project. I bring them to the set and literally check off they things I want to shoot as they happen. When I get tired, or time runs out (and time always runs out), I go back to my shot list to make sure I’m getting the important stuff done.
In the book you’ll see the shot list for the “Opera” spot that I wrote and directed. Here’s the final product:
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Steve Stockman is a writer/ producer/ director in Los Angeles. How to Shoot Video That Doesn't Suck, available in 9 languages, is the best selling video how-to book in the world. You can find the updated edition from Workman Publishing wherever you get books, ebooks or audiobooks. 
I am reading your book as I put together a movie of our vacation pictures in Hawaii. Wish I had prepared better (another trip would fix that), but I will definitly work to make it shorter.
Thanks
Christie
wheres the frisbee!?!?!
Very creative video .well done
Lovely – I remember seeing it years ago as an example of very creative video – lovely!
"I have been doing still photography for a while. I recently bought a camcorder and your book. (I love the book.) Thank you for the book and your examples.