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The instructor explains the schedule change and introduces assignment seven as the first stage of pre-production. He outlines the immediate priorities: importing the script, formatting it correctly, and beginning work in Yamdu.
Hello everyone.Uh sorry for the last minute change to the class schedule period.Uh something came up this morning and it's made it so I'm not going to be able to make it to class.So I wanted to go over a few things because uh I want you to keep working and I will clarify any questions on Wednesday.So what you can see in front of you is assignment seven which is the next assignment in your capstone project.Over the weekend you should have received a capstone invitation for a project um in Yamdu.So make sure that you go and start working in that.So I want to go over this assignment and give you some priorities of what you should work on.So assignment seven is the first stage of pre-production.Assignment eight will be a second stage of pre-production and so uh there will be more that you will do inside your capstone Yamdu project.
So the first thing is that you're going to bring in a script and then you're going to start tagging it like we did before.If you're doing a short narrative, uh, bringing in a Final Cut, uh, script like we did earlier in the semester will bring everything in, start breaking out your scenes if you have it formatted correctly.Uh, if you don't, uh, you're going to have to do everything manually.Also, some of you are doing commercials and so I'm going to mention a couple things today, but I'll probably have to go into more detail on Wednesday.So the script is the first thing.So I definitely want you to start uh bringing in your script, getting that in and formatted correctly with the right uh stripboard with scene numbers and all that so that you have a working document to build your pre-productionoff of.
Now the second thing that I actually want you to do uh is create a master production schedule.And this is actually one of the biggest focuses of this assignment.And the purpose is I want you to plan out all of the activities that you're going to do through this semester and next semester.
This section walks through the master production schedule and the four phases of the capstone project. The instructor gives date ranges for development, pre-production, shooting, and post-production, emphasizing early planning.
So if you look at this section in the assignment, I've got four phases of development phase, pre-production, production, and post-production.So some of these will not be during this semester but will uh obviously be in next semester but some of them will cross over.So let's just take them one at a time.Uh the development phase uh we've already actually started working in developing your script your concept your treatment.But if there's any more time that you are actually spending on that some of you are actually um redoing scripts and fine-tuning a few things.So put in time related to that.You may actually end up doing a few things or tweaks in January, but I would say development phase should be done this semester pretty soon.Now moving into pre-production, you should actually be starting that this week.Once you get your script in, you should be doing the pre-production planning, which is mostly what is in this particular assignment.
But when you go into Joe's class in January, you are going to have a little bit of time to do some final tweaking and adjustments.So that can go all the way into January.So you can see beside each phase, I've got an approximate date range.So that's from today, November 9, 26 to January 27.All right.Moving to the production phase, these are going to get more specific.So the intent is for you to actually plan your production phase uh starting the beginning of February.Uh so with this advanced planning, you should be ready to go.And this is kind of the whole point of this course is to actually have you shoot earlier so that you have more time for post-production.So you should be putting your shooting dates and planning them to start in early February.Uh the last week of February is spring break.
So you can see here that I've got February 1 through 9 is really the time that you should be scheduling shooting.Now there could be some reasons that doesn't work.Uh but you would need to kind of get approval from Joe, but I want you to kind of think about that time block.March 5th is after break, the week after break.And so if you have some time where you have to maybe re-shoot or pick up some small footage, uh then that is something that you could do.But by the time you get done with the first week of March, you should be done with shooting.Now post-production will start March 6th and go to the end.I am basing this on tentative due dates that Joe has.So don't hold me to this, but this is what I anticipate your deadlines are going to be.
And Joe will have some other deadlines next semester, but you should plan things like your editing and rough cut and all those kinds of things in this because the final final final version is April 20th, about that time.
The instructor explains the remaining assignment components, including breakdown sheets, locations, characters, props, set decoration, and technical requirements. He also addresses how commercial projects may need separate Yamdu setups.
So, I want you to go ahead and plan this.This should be one of the first things you do is allocate time so that you can delineate when you're going to try to get things accomplished.So, the other thing in this assignment is breakdown sheets.So, as you bring in your script and you start building things, you're going to make sure that you've got that strip board, which has got every scene, description, uh, the environment, interior, exterior, what the setting is.So, is it a classroom, is it a soccer field, whatever.Um, and then going into more specific things like filming locations.So, I do want you to work on finding physical locations.Uh, I know that's hard, but this is something that you need to start working on now and not just postpone it.Uh, characters, you should be able to take your script, delineate who the characters are and the extras.
So, all the roles should be created.actors.I know that you may have a hard time getting all this done uh before this assignment is due, but at the very least, I want to have some idea if you know the specific actor.So, you may have some friends who have already agreed to be in your spot or in your u narrative.And so I want you to put their specific information and then you may have to finish the rest of this a little bit later in the next version or in January.Uh props, you should be able to delineate all the props that you need based upon uh your knowledge of the scene.Same thing with set decorations.Once you know the locations, you should know what are extra things that I need to bring in terms of set decoration.Not all of you are going to have vehicles, but if you do, then that needs to be included.
Uh, last thing for this assignment is technical requirements.So, I want you to Oops, sorry about that.Uh, we I want you to delineate just like we talked about last week, camera equipment, audio equipment, lighting equipment, grip equipment, uh, the things that you're going to need during that time period to shoot.Now I want you to do this and assign these to the specific scenes because if everybody is shooting in a very similar time frame uh there will be high demand on equipment.So if you don't need something on a particular day you need to bring it back so somebody else might have access to it.So grading on this will be in your Yamu project.I will look at this and delineate all of this.And you can see the grading rubric here.Now, the final point is for those of you doing commercials, I think what we're going to have to do is I'm probably going to have to give you multiple U Yamu projects, one for each one.
Uh, I've looked at some ways that you might be able to do it in one project, but I think this may actually be confusing.So, what I want you to do is actually start working on one of your spots in the first capstone project I've given you.And then, uh, on Wednesday, we'll kind of look at whether you need some additional uh, Yamu projects to do uh, the rest of your commercial spots.
The instructor demonstrates how to use Yamdu for narratives and commercial storyboards, including AV scripts, scene breakdowns, and storyboard exports. He shows how the platform can generate more traditional storyboard-style documents with visuals and audio.
So, with that in mind, I'm going to show you a couple things in Yamdu and then kind of wrap up this session.
So I'm in a project that I created in Yamdu.This is just a work file.So it doesn't have a lot of data.So what I want to show you is a couple different things is uh under script if you're doing a narrative you're going to import something and it's going to actually create the script, break it down into scenes.So, a lot of that work is going to be done and then you can start building off of that to create your props and characters and all that.Now, if you're not doing that, if you're doing um a commercial where you want to use a storyboard, uh you can do that.You could also break your storyboard down into scenes and shots if that makes more sense.But I'm going to show you how we're actually uh going to use a different formatting that might work for everybody that's using a storyboard format.
So down here under AV scripts and shots, we actually have different uh settings and they have storyboard, AV script, and even a rundown.So, these are really just ways that you can display your information, but uh I'm actually going to make the point in Yamdu for using an AV script uh because it will actually translate into a storyboard.Uh this actually will be easier to fill out, I think, for many of you.And so, uh, if you're doing a storyboard, like a commercial, uh, you're actually just going to build each scene, one, two, three, four, five in here.And this is going to ask you relevant questions.Now, there is a more detailed view.So you can actually click on the scenes and go into edit and it brings up kind of a larger format for each one.So this would correlate to each of your frames in your commercial spot.
And then you can just kind of write the subject.You can write a a number here.And then you can describe the visuals.Some of this you already have, but this is where you can actually put the voice over in.And this is going to give you what you want, which is when I see this image on the field, I can actually put um this or listen to this audio.Now, you can actually add some additional information and you can add individual shots, but um you can add images as well.So, I'm going to show you how that kind of works.So, if we go over to the storyboard, we actually have that scene already created because you created it in the AV script.So, there it is.And if you click on this, you can actually add a picture in by uploading it or whatever you want to do.
Now, in Yamdu, it actually doesn't give you kind of like a traditional storyboard view, but I'm going to show you how you can actually kind of um I got to save the changes here.Get more of what you want.And that is by exporting.If you click on this, you can download a storyboard or an AV script or a rundown.So, let's just do an AV script.And it's going to ask you what you want, portrait or landscape.But in addition to visual and audio, you can also use the shot image.So this is going to include this in a format that I think is going to be helpful.So click on export.
I'm going to bring this up.Bring it over.
And so this is what it looks like.So now you've got something that actually is a more traditional type of uh storyboard format.And that means you've got an image, you've got the visual, and you've got audio that goes with with it.So this is why I think this actually will work a little bit better.And you can actually delineate this by the scene and tag it to the scene.So then all of this is actually going to kind of turn into the data that you need uh for scheduling.So I hope that kind of makes sense.
He continues demonstrating how to add and export storyboard elements, then summarizes what students should focus on today. The session ends with encouragement to keep working, experiment with the system, and start the master production schedule.
We will go over that more in uh class on Wednesday.But as you start working, I would actually take your existing storyboard if you have one and kind of jump into the AV script and kind of fill things in.And you can actually uh end up going back.It will create uh a storyboard image and you can add another one.So let me kind of just create a new one so that you kind of see what this looks like.
So this is shot ID uh subject um
so I'm just going to type You can see
Okay, I'm just making it sound.So, images and files.I can add a file.
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Oops, that's definitely not the right one.
Okay, I'm just going to throw a placeholder in here for the moment.And that's obviously not a tennis player, but
so we've got all of that data in here.So let's go back over to storyboard.And so we've got now that second u shot that's coming up.It's got its own visual.Uh again, if you look in the AV script, you can see that you've got the audio, you got a description.Um, so all of that data is there, but if you go under storyboard, now you've got something that's got images.If I export it as an AV script, include the shot image.
Now you can see that I'm building essentially a storyboard.So this is why I think this is going to work better in terms of the way Yamdu creates things so that you can actually uh build something if it's kind of story boarded.So that's what I want you to concentrate on today.So please keep working.Uh I know that you may have questions that some of this uh may not be straightforward.Uh but experiment a little bit.I think you'll start to see how these different settings work.Um, and it'll be a little bit of manual labor to enter all this stuff if you're not doing a narrative.Uh, but that will give you the structure that you really need.So, I will see you on Wednesday.Uh, I don't think anything will prevent that.But if you have some questions, you can email me.
I will do my best.I may not be able to email you back until tomorrow, but please start working especially on the master production schedule.All right, I will talk to you later.