Every show is different, sometimes the shot list is a collaboration between the director and the cinematographer, sometimes it's just the director's list, sometimes there is only a list for big complex scenes or only for the first few days of shooting. If I don't have the time to prep a list for the entire shoot, I'll get the director to concentrate on the first week's work because it's useful to get the show off on a good start and everyone can see that you know what you want. After that, it's OK to be more "reactive" to what's going on the set because you've nailed the style down for coverage and often by this point, there may be script changes, location changes, schedule changes, that require you to be more flexible, unless the shot list is being created every night before the next day's shoot -- some directors do that rather than do all of that work in prep.
Here is a shot list that I wrote down for the first day of shooting on a feature, based on notes from the director:
Sc. 2 & 7 – PUMPKIN FIELD
Golden late afternoon light
#1 Extreme WS of stage, shooting beyond set area, to be enhanced in post. Patrick & Pumpkin Farmer
#2 A-CAM: WS of set, no efx, w/ Patrick & Pumpkin Farmer. Slow sideways DOLLY along f.g. dressing. (B-CAM: medium 2-shot)
#3 Tight on clod of dirt in Patrick’s hands / TILT UP to MCU Patrick
#4 MCU Pumpkin Farmer
Sc. 58 & 61 –PUMPKIN FIELD w/ ROAD
Overcast light
#5 DOLLY past fallen crates & bags to MCU Chet looking around (efx adds more distant parachutes & crates falling in b.g. sky)
#6 Camera inside car looking over Cleveland’s shoulder / Car pulls up and stops with Chet visible in b.g. through front windshield / Cleveland gets out of car and joins him, all framed by front windshield.
#7 MCU Cleveland stepping out of car and looking up at sky (efx adds more distant parachutes and crates falling in b.g. sky) / he exits frame towards Chet
#8 A-CAM: 2-shot Chet & Cleveland stooping over bag & broken crate.
B-CAM: tighter 2-shot of CU Chet & Cleveland
#9 INSERT: gold powder in fertilizer