As we are making a short film between several people who are working full-time, very often it is tricky to organising meeting up to discuss things like the script. We have been using Google Docs to write our script and share it between the staff online. That is handy enough on its own, not to mention the ‘comments’ you can add to see who suggests what.
If you are making a short film like we are, you can also use the Google calendar to share dates, and we have also found a use for the spreadsheets that are avaliable to make the shot list so we can keep track of the number of Sequences and Shots, and the length of them etc etc.

Its handy.

Recently we have come across ‘Without a box’ which provides a great system for short film creaters to primarily submit their films to tons of festivals you easily could miss out on. There some fee’s and many festivals charge for submission but its well worth a look: http://www.withoutabox.com/

Here is the work so far on the office where our main character works:

Hopefully we’ll have more to come soon. As well as progress on the environments in 3d, we are also working on the Pre-vis for the film (also in 3d) and have about 1 mins worth so far! Hoorah!

We haven’t quite got the full synopsis online yet, and you might not want to read it anyway in case it spoils some magic bits - but for now here is a wee summary/blurb of the story.. (more…)