Guide › Shooting

Scouting

For each set in the screenplay: the places scouted and the one chosen. It is the shooting-side mirror of Locations & Sets, as Cast is for the characters.

Candidate places

1. Rail › Scouting, then choose a set (or a sub-location) on the left.
2. Add a place for each spot visited or considered.
3. Give it a status: to visit, visited, chosen or ruled out. Only one place is chosen per set: choosing another sends the previous one back to "Visited". The chosen place is shown in the list.

What you note about a place

• Identity and contact: name of the place, address, on-site contact, owner or manager, phone, email.
• Logistics: access and parking, power, dressing rooms, catering and toilets, network.
• Picture and sound: orientation, light by time of day, ambient noise.
• Permits and cost: permit, rate, availability, contract.
• Notes and photos of the place.

Under the places, the set's scenes; a scene opens in Floor Plan.