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I'm George Edelman with StudioBinder.
And today we are going to talk about
the production calendar.
So we're going to talk about in this video series
is all the things you can do
with your production calendar
to make your shoot smoother.
Not only that,
we're going to talk about how this calendar can double,
as a great presentation tool.
Right now, we're going to focus on the basics.
How do you create a calendar?
How do you create an event?
So we'll go up here to this production calendar drop-down.
You'll just click on "Add Calendar."
And you'll see this modal pop-up.
For now, we're just going to call it short film.
Then we'll click "Next."
Now, you have an option here to use a template.
Some templates will be there for you already, over time,
and will go over this in a later video,
you'll be able to create templates on your own.
But for now,
let's just go with the blank calendar.
And here we are.
So the next thing we're going to go over
is how to create an event.
All you have to do to create an event is click.
Let's call it "Hire director."
And here we can enter in a date range,
so we can customize how long we want this to be.
Maybe three days.
I always like to give myself longer, just in case.
So I'm going to go ahead and give us through the weekend.
And now we can also add tasks.
So, with the ability to add tasks,
you can do something like review applicants,
and later, someone will be able to click off this task,
if it's done, just like that.
If you want to remove the task,
that's an option.
If you want to add a new task
that's also an option.
You can attach files here.
Say there's an applicant resume you want to attach
that's an option.
And we can add comments.
Now, here's another really cool thing you can do.
Up here,
you have the option of changing the color of this event.
So, let's say, we're going to make all our hiring events red.
Click off.
And there it is.
Our first event
created on our calendar
in this row, right here.
And now,
we create a new event in the same row,
see how easy that is.
Something I really like to do
is always consistently color my departments.
So, say my art department is always going to be red.
Not only will everyone who works for me know
that everything red on the calendars for the art department.
But so will I,
so it'll be a lot easier for me to look at the calendar
and immediately know right there,
that's what they need to do,
that's their time frame.
This is one of the great things about using the colors.
There's another cool thing we can do.
We'll go over here and we're going to add a row.
And say we'll call this row "Casting."
We can give this a color, too.
So now "Casting" is going to be yellow.
And now unlike here
where we created the event,
and then we added the color,
with casting
every time we create a new event,
it's automatically yellow.
So there's auditions,
and then maybe in the following week,
create another event.
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And then the next.
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So there you can easily see how I use the row,
and the color of the row
to create all the events within that department.
There's also the other option we showed you
which is you can just create the event on the calendar
and color it yourself there.
However, you want to do it.
Another cool thing you can do
is you can duplicate an event,
or you can click on it and rename it,
and make comments, add tasks.
And right here,
you see I have the option to assign users,
so I can always go through here,
and assign a user.
One of the really cool things about this calendar
is it's so customizable.
Whatever works for you,
works for this calendar.
So it's that easy to start creating events
in your new calendar.
Next time, we're going to talk about what you do
when it's time to make changes and revisions
the events you already have in there.
Until then,
thanks so much for watching.
Hope you found this helpful.
Let us know what you think.
And check back soon for more videos like this
and other pro tip videos.
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