news and notes 11.26.12

One of the Episode 5 storyboards drawn (quickly) with Adobe Ideas.

I spent the Turkey Weekend doing some storyboarding for our next Space Cops shoot. Can you tell? I've been experimenting with a production app called ShotList. It's a nifty little program that has the potential to be quite helpful to us on future shoots. We don't always have the time or the manpower to have a script supervisor, but I'm hoping having a detailed shot list on the iPad will make us that much more efficient.

ShotList allows you to plan your shooting schedule. You can add, edit, delete or reorder any of your scenes at any point across multiple days and update their status as you go. You can store up to six images (such as storyboards) on every scene. (By the way, I draw the storyboards on another great app called Adobe Ideas. If you like to draw, get it. For my money, it's the best art app I've seen.) From what I've been able to do on ShotList so far, I would recommend the app to anyone looking for help in scheduling their shoots. There is one other app called Shotlister (confusing, I know) that I would recommend looking at as well. Shotlister does realtime tracking of your progress to let you know whether or not you're on schedule. That sounds amazing, but personally I'm not sure I could schedule my shoots down to the minute. Who knows, maybe it's worth a try.

Tomorrow is an editing party! We'll be doing some more work on Episode 4 and we might experiment with streaming it live on YouTube/Google+. If we do, we'll send a last minute tweet or Facebook post to warn anyone who might be super interested. It's going to happen sooner or later and tomorrow might be a test.

Also, I have every intention of a special post this week. I've talked about it here briefly before. It's an opportunity for anyone who wants to do something special and amazing to market their business. If you want to grab attention, this is the post you're going to want to see. Stay tuned for that and more this week including Indie Wednesday.