Choose one or combine a mixture of the following methods to plan how you will shoot your finished script.
Storyboarding
Break the script down into specific scenes, then scenes into shots and draw these up in a storyboard. Remember the basics of how to cover a scene. The storyboard should also include references to sound, music and dialogue. Images need only be basic shapes and indicative of the shot, camera movement, framing and/or transitions needed. A good tutorial for storyboarding can be found here.
Here is an exemplar of a good storyboard that follows basic storyboarding conventions and is easy to follow. Below it is the film that came out of it.
Here is an exemplar of a good storyboard that follows basic storyboarding conventions and is easy to follow. Below it is the film that came out of it.
Shooting script
As an alternative to storyboarding, annotate your finished script with notes outlining shots, camera moves and any other important info as you "watch" the movie in your minds eye before shooting each scene. Below are two annotated pages of shooting script fom the 2018 Noscars intro video. Watch the start of the video below the pages to see how accurate the shooting script was compared to the completed film.
Gif and/or movie stills storyboard
If you have specific ideas on how you want to shoot your scenes based on films or TV shows that you have seen. You could create a series of gifs or still images that provide a reference template for you to use when you shoot the scenes. Below is an example from the Newlands 48HOURS (award winning!) short film, Cut Up. The murder scene from Cut Up was inspired by a similar scene from Dario Argento's The Bird with the Crystal Plumage. As you can see by comparing the two gifs, Cut Up follows the same basic camera setups as the Argento film.