All About EP Scheduling

Video Transcript

"Hi Chris Cobb for Expert Village welcome back. So I assume you have the program EP scheduling. If you don't go to the website www.entertainmentpartners.com and download the free trial. What we are going to do though before we begin breaking down our script, is actually look at the program and get a feel for the different parts to it. So start up your program and let's take a look. When EP schedule starts up it doesn't actually have a start up screen. You have to look to the top of your screen then you'll see all these drop down menus. You notice they are all grayed out and that's because you actually haven't started a new schedule yet. Which is what you actually have to do in EP scheduling makes sense. So let's go in and open it up and start a new schedule. They give you a couple of defaults. I've created my own but also here's is the default schedule that they give you. We'll use that one so you'll get a feel for what you are going to start with when you start up your program. There are too many parts. The first part that comes up is the main page called the break down sheet. So you can see it up here it says the break down sheet and then it has the untitled one which is going to be whatever file name you give it when you save it. EPSD is just the file type that EP scheduling creates. The first things to look at of course are the pulled down menus again and you'll noticed they are not grayed out now and that's because you can actually use the program now that you've created a new schedule. Then you look over here and you see the icons all of these icons here and they really just help you navigate through all the breakdown sheets that you're going to create because you'll going to create several hundred of them just to breakdown the typical feature film script. Then if you look at the page you see two main parts up here is a gray area with white fields and down below is just a list field. Oh well let's explore those. This gray area here are all the elements that you?re going to extract from every single scene that you break down from your script. Down here at the bottom these are actually the elements that you find in each scene. Cast members, background actors, vehicles, etc. etc. The other major part is up here if you go under schedule and you look at script board and that is the next section so let's open it and pulls up usually a horizontal board. I don't know I like to use a vertical one because a vertical board allows me to look at the header board which is the area over here. That will make sense as we go. Then over here this long strip this is the strip I'll always selected you'll see that is red this is a strip that attracts all the information from every breakdown sheet and every time I add a new breakdown sheet they'll be a new strip on this board. Again this will all make sense as we go. Let's go back over to our breakdown sheet and let's get started."