Film Production Management FIL6467 Summer B 2010

Scenechronize Notes Go to: https://www.scenechronize.com/ Click on the Sign Up For Free! badge. Pick Solo Scheduling and Feature. Follow instructions for getting your account set up. Upload My Mother script. It will ask you to fix the first two lines at the top of the first page. Make them both Start of Act. To get started on breaking down the script, click on Scenes in the upper left corner. Add elements by highlighting as per the lecture from Edgar on Tuesday – the box will pop up and guide you. For Cast, click on the + button in the Characters element line – the program has already pulled out the cast names form the script, so you only have to click on the right name. It has done the same thing for Sets. Leave Location blank, we don’t know what they are for this exercise. When you have gone through and broken down every scene in the script, click on Stripboard. Pick Sat and Sun as the days off for your schedule. Start your start production for June 14, 2011. Go through the schedule and check for exterior nights, and page count per day, and logic of what days are next to each other. If you make an assumption about how you are putting the days together, include it on the SCHEDULE ASSUMPTIONS form (follows this memo). When ready to print, click on Reports and then One Liner. Print the one liner, double check it for: • Set name consistency • Pager per day count • Typos • No blank set names or scene action lines. • Does the order of the days make sense? • What assumptions am I making to defend this schedule? If asked why I am shooting the Clubhouse work before the Co‐op work, what is my reasoning?

Bring the one liner to class on Thursday Aug 5 for your grade. I do not want to see the whole script or any other reports – just the one liner.

NOTES: Better to allow time than cut it short for what you need to shoot the scene. Remember that coverage takes time. If there is more than one actor in a scene, allow for shooting coverage of all the actors. 4 pages per day is ideal, but often it will be less if you are shooting complicated scenes. Remember the 48 Hours exercise.

Bring precision and consistency to set names. This will help in the scheduling process.

Scenechronize will sort your strips in alphabetical order and all sets together. This means all your Paula’s Co‐op interior scenes are together, all the exterior Clubhouse scenes are together and so on. It is a rough pass at getting things lumped together by set. But you have to make sure that your sets have the same name – that the Clubhouse is always referred to a Clubhouse and not Biker’s House, Club House and Biker’s Club, because they wont be sorted together that way – it only sorts alphabetically. True up the set names by making sure they are consistent and to check for typos or missing action descriptions.

Put in day breaks that follow these guidelines: • Shoot days should average 2‐4 pages per day. Set Scenechronize for 4 per day but you need to go in and make sure it sticks within these guidelines of 2‐4. • Keep night exteriors together on a weekend night or at the end of the schedule ‐ don't schedule a night shoot then a day shoot right after it. The crew needs from night to day – do that over a weekend or on the last day(s) of the schedule so you don’t lose a day just for turnaround. • Try to be logical when grouping different sets together – would it make sense to shoot these scenes on the same day? • Don’t assume that alphabetical is the best way to set up the whole schedule ‐ look at each day and see if the production wouldn’t be better served by re‐arranging the days in a different order.

NAME:

ONE LINER SCHEDULE ASSUMPTIONS

FILM TITLE:

SHOOT DATES:

5 OR 6 DAY WEEKS:

NUMBER OF SHOOT DAYS:

ANY STAGE WORK OR ALL ON LOCATIONS?:

ANY OUT OF STATE WORK? (NOT IN NYC?):

ADDITIONAL NOTES ON SCHEDULE RATIONALE: