Hi, I'm Chris from StudioBinder.
And this is a guided walkthrough of the stripboard scheduling page.
With this stripboard functionality,
you can easily import screenplays,
create shooting schedules,
and seamlessly transition them to call sheets.
By setting up a shooting schedule within StudioBinder,
your team can better plan and prepare your shoots.
Which means a smoother production experience with less surprises.
So let's take a look at it right now.
Getting started with a stripboard is incredibly easy and fast.
If you have a script, you can just click this button and drag
and drop your final draft script right in.
In just a few seconds, all of your script details will be imported.
Scene information,
script locations, characters, page counts and more.
As you can see,
scripts are automatically color-coded by industry standards.
If you want to add or edit a scene manually,
you can do that as well.
If you click here,
you can see a preview of the scene and script format.
Or click here to read the screenplay in its entirety.
It literally takes seconds to add everything and get the ball rolling.
So now that we have a script imported,
I want to show you how easy it is to create a shooting schedule.
First, let's assign our talent and shooting locations.
The character is assigned to a scene if they have dialogue,
but many times you have non-speaking characters in a scene.
So we made it easy to assign more.
Just click here to see all the imported characters,
and select the ones you want to add and click away.
Assigning a shooting location works the same way.
Just click on the column and select a location.
If you want to add a new location,
just click here.
I'll label this one, La Sirenita.
And search for an address.
And click create.
And now you can see the shooting location
has been immediately assigned to the scene.
Reordering scenes couldn't be easier.
Just select a strip and drag.
We also built in an auto reordering feature
to group scenes based on criteria of your choice.
This turbochargers the workflow and gets you
pretty close to the finish line in seconds.
Just click the reorder button up here.
And then select your sorting criteria.
If you've already assigned locations to your scenes by this point,
we suggest setting shooting location as the initial sorting
since it will group all of your scenes by their respective locations.
If you don't have shooting locations assigned yet,
then select script location which sorts by scene headings.
You also have the option to set secondary sorting.
I'll just leave these as-is for now.
If you look down here,
you also have the option to add day breaks.
Day breaks marks the end of a shooting day.
I'll go ahead and enable this.
And set it to a day break every 6 pages.
And then click reorder stripboard.
So with just a few clicks,
the entire stripboard is automatically ordered for me
by shooting location
with daybreak's added every six pages.
So all you would need to do now is fine-tune the ordering,
as you see fit.
As I do that,
you can see the day breaks automatically update the day and page counts.
To help speed up this process even further,
we`ve developed cut and paste hotkeys
so you can move large groups of strips or even entire days in an instant.
Just select some strips.
Hit Command+X.
And I'm going to select the strip
that I want to paste the scenes under,
and hit Command+V to paste.
Done.
You can also specify
important notes on your stripboard using banners.
So for example,
if you look here, you can see that halfway through the shoot day,
my shooting location changes.
The time to move between locations should be factored into my schedule.
To emphasize this, I can add a banner
and label it company move.
Just click here
and select add banner under.
Then type in a description, in this case company move to La Sirenita.
And then click "Create."
And now you see the banner has been added to the stripboard.
Making it clear that we should a lot enough time for this move.
This is really useful for drawing awareness
around time-consuming events such as moves, meal breaks
and extended prep times.
Sometimes scripts are not formatted correctly and requires
some revisions after import.
So we made it easy to manage characters and script locations.
You can click here to view a full list
of all the characters all locations important.
if I click characters,
I can see there are two Stuarts.
One of which had a typo in the script.
No worries, you can easily correct this by merging both characters.
This will merge all of their scenes under a new character.
To do that, select the characters,
then click the merge button.
Type in the name of the new character,
in this case, Stuart.
Confirm the cast ID,
in this case, one.
And then apply.
As you can see, the two characters have been merged.
While I'm here, I'm also going to change the cast ID of our character
Claire to number two.
To do that I just dragged her row up to the second position
and you can see Claire's ID updates to the number two.
To confirm the changes, I'll go back to the stripboard and click on the cost column.
I can now see Stuart has been merged
and Claire now has the cast ID two.
As you can see, we provide powerful tools
for you to be able to correct any formatting errors
that may have resulted
from the way a script was written.
Just make the changes
and the stripboard will be updated immediately.
Another powerful feature is version tracking.
Let's say you worked on a stripboard
and the screenwriter just sent you a new version of the script.
You want to import it to see what it looks like,
but you don't want to lose your previous work.
No problem.
You can roll back to previous versions
of a stripboard at any time.
Just import the new script
after importing, you'll see the new stripboard.
To swap to the previous version, just click here,
and you'll see all the previous imports.
Find the version you want to roll back to
and then click the make current button.
And I've rolled back to my previous stripboard
including its associated characters and locations.
We've made it incredibly easy to swap back and forth
between different versions of the stripboard.
So you never need to worry about losing important data.
You can just roll back in seconds
and you can see your work is safe and sound.
The last feature I want to discuss is all about call sheets.
Let's say you've worked hard to put together detailed stripboard.
Now you're heading into production and need
to start creating call sheets.
Would it be nice to import your schedule right in?
Well,we thought of that too.
Just go to your stripboard
and click on the plus icon found on every daybreak.
This will spin off a new call sheet with all
of this days scenes.
After clicking the button you
can see the data is added for me.
And if I go to the call sheet preview,
I can see my day out of days is filled in.
If I scroll down a little bit more here,
the shooting locations were added as well,
and below that I see all of my scenes, banners
and page counts.
If I scroll down some more,
I can see that even the advanced schedule for the next day has been added for me
with the corresponding day of days and date.
All of this was achieved by clicking the + icon.
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