Tutorial › Path 3: Preparation

Unit 5: Prepare the shoot

In this unit, you go from the page to the set: casting, the floor plan, the shot list, the sides.

Casting

1. Rail › Cast › Barbenfouillis.
2. Add a casting lead for each actor considered: name, contact, agent, notes.
3. Choose the cast actor.

The floor plan

1. Rail › Floor Plan › scene 3 (boarding the shell).
2. The setup is a scene's arrangement: set, characters, cameras, lights. A scene has at least one; add another for a second arrangement.
3. Place the characters and the set with the tools, at the bottom of the plan.
4. Place a camera: its cone shows the field of view, from its focal length.

Animate with keys

1. In the plan's list (bottom left), choose Barbenfouillis.
2. Place the timeline cursor, under the plan, at 0 s, then at 4 s, and move the character on the plan: each move sets a key; between two keys, he glides.
3. Read the running time: the action played on the floor plan, against the running time estimated from the text.

Snapshot records one moment of the plan: ticked "In the shot list", the snapshot replaces the shot's thumbnail in the shot list and the Bible.

The camera sheet

Each shot is a camera, described by six principles: size (FS, CU…), subject, point of view, angle, orientation, function. Its name uses their abbreviations, for example LS-2S-OBJ. Movement and focal length are read from the floor plan when the camera is placed there. The details: Floor Plan.

The shot list and the breakdown

1. Rail › Prep.
2. Inspector › Document: the shot list (the shots) or the breakdown (the scenes, by set).
3. Choose the order: narrative, by setup (the shots from the same camera position together), or by set for the breakdown.
4. Print: PDF (A4 landscape) or Spreadsheet: .csv.

The sides

1. Rail › Cast › Barbenfouillis › Sides.
2. Tick "Highlight their lines".
3. Print: one scene per page, his lines highlighted, a cover page.

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