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Summary: Learn all about the details of the production stripboard in EP Scheduling software in this free software tutorial video.
Chris Cobb has been scheduling and budgeting for film, television, and multimedia productions for almost twenty years. As a 1st Assistant Director he works closely with directors,...read more
"Hi Chris Cobb for Expert Village. We finished our breakdowns sheets and we've moved on to the board. Let's take a look! Before we go any further move on over here and let's take a look at our header board. Now let's get up close says up here page count and scene and if you track across you can see page count as one page four eighths of a page, four eighths of a page, and here's the scene numbers one seventy, one seventy one, one seventy two. Down here we see interior, day, interior day. Look at this green strip, interior night just like the colors that we assigned in the strips. Down further you see it says Space Needle and finally we're into this list of lines and what do these numbers stand for? Well you already know that because you created them. Here are the characters in a list and Sully is a board Id of number one. So this number here, board Id that we gave him earlier and whenever we see the number one on a strip oh we know that means Sully. Remember Hannah was number two. Well look again. Every time we see number two that means Hannah is in the scene. You usually have the title somewhere up in this space here. Then you have the director, the producer, the assistant director and the script date. Below I also track extras and vehicles in this section and then I have the synopsis. Let's take a look at the synopsis for instance of the last strip we just did. Says dance floor everyone they know is there. Look it what you get on that last breakdown sheet. You get the page count, scene number, interior night, Space Needle, all of the cast members, no extras noted although there probably will be some extras but that's a conversation with the director that we'll have later. No vehicles and the synopsis."
eHow Article: Stripboard Details in EP Scheduling