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Moviestorm Limited Registered Office: 48 Hinton Way | Cambridge | CB22 5BB | United Kingdom Registered in England, Number: 04804945 Moviestorm User Guide 1.6 www.moviestorm.net Contents Introduction...............................................................................................................................................................................4 What you will need .................................................................................................................................................................4 Using Moviestorm with other tools ...........................................................................................................................................4 The movie-making process .........................................................................................................................................................5 Setting up Moviestorm................................................................................................................................................................6 Logging in .............................................................................................................................................................................6 Using AddOn packs ................................................................................................................................................................7 Where's my stuff? ..................................................................................................................................................................9 Preferences ............................................................................................................................................................................9 Updates .................................................................................................................................................................................9 Basic operations ....................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Creating new movies ............................................................................................................................................................ 10 Saving movies ...................................................................................................................................................................... 10 Loading movies .................................................................................................................................................................... 11 Managing Memory ................................................................................................................................................................ 11 Creating movies with more than one scene ............................................................................................................................ 12 Set Workshop .......................................................................................................................................................................... 13 Choosing a stock set ............................................................................................................................................................ 13 Navigating around the set ..................................................................................................................................................... 14 Basic building: walls, doors, windows, floors & ceilings ........................................................................................................... 14 Props and set dressing ......................................................................................................................................................... 15 Lighting ............................................................................................................................................................................... 16 Sky ...................................................................................................................................................................................... 17 Terrain ................................................................................................................................................................................. 17 Working with stock sets ........................................................................................................................................................ 17 Dressing Room ........................................................................................................................................................................ 18 Viewing characters ............................................................................................................................................................... 18 The cast list ......................................................................................................................................................................... 19 Creating characters .............................................................................................................................................................. 19 Director's View ......................................................................................................................................................................... 21 Basic Moviestorm directing techniques ................................................................................................................................... 21 Selecting an actor ................................................................................................................................................................ 22 Placing an actor on set ......................................................................................................................................................... 22 Interacting with other characters ........................................................................................................................................... 22 Interacting with the set ........................................................................................................................................................ 22 Moving ................................................................................................................................................................................ 22 Speaking ............................................................................................................................................................................. 23 Getting emotional ................................................................................................................................................................. 23 Moviestorm Limited Registered Office: 48 Hinton Way | Cambridge | CB22 5BB | United Kingdom Registered in England, Number: 04804945 Page 2 of 46 Moviestorm User Guide 1.6 www.moviestorm.net Using props ......................................................................................................................................................................... 24 Watching the action.............................................................................................................................................................. 24 Editing the timeline .............................................................................................................................................................. 24 Advanced techniques ............................................................................................................................................................ 25 Camera View ........................................................................................................................................................................... 26 Framing your shots............................................................................................................................................................... 26 Keyframes: cuts and moves .................................................................................................................................................. 28 Advanced camera tools ........................................................................................................................................................