Film School Production Software: Teaching Scheduling and Budgeting Online

A film student can write a screenplay, pick up a camera, and start shooting. But turning that screenplay into an organized production is another skill entirely. Scenes need to be broken down. Actors need to be scheduled. Locations need to be organized. Equipment, crew, props, wardrobe, and transportation all need to be considered. Eventually, someone […]

From Final Draft to Breakdown Sheet: What Gorilla 11 Improves

A screenplay is not just a story document. Once pre-production begins, it becomes a working map for departments, cast, locations, props, wardrobe, transportation, budgeting, and the shooting schedule. That map usually begins in Final Draft, but the real production work begins when the script is imported, broken down, tagged, scheduled, and translated into usable reports. […]