“Unlocking the Secrets of Interactive Storytelling: Gavin Michael Booth Reveals How to Captivate Audiences in Episode 533 of SYS Podcast!”

So, now just a quick few words about what I’ve been working on, so I’m officially in pre-production now on the indie rom-com that I’ve been putting together, just polishing up the script over this last year. We’re still really early in the process, but right now I think we’re going to be trying to shoot the last quarter of this year, so October-ish. The first thing I did once the script was locked was coming up with a preliminary schedule. Now I wrote this script in Celtics, just really sort of as an experiment. I’d never used Celtics before, this isn’t a plug for Celtics, I don’t get paid to promote Celtics, but their scriptwriting program I liked, it seemed to be pretty good. There was some little buggy issues here and there, like it’ll log you out, it’s all in the cloud, so which is nice, because then you can share the script easy with other people, they can type notes and this. So there’s some advantages to being in the cloud, but sometimes you’d just be sitting there writing and your 10-day logout or something would expire and it would just log you out, you have to log back in. So there’s some little issues with Celtics, but overall I like it. And there’s some other features, you can pay an extra $10 a month and you can get access to some of their production features. So I did that for this script and then I have the ability to create sort of a preliminary budget and schedule. I’ve never used any other film scheduling tools, I’m sort of new at this coming from the writing angle, but on this one I just opened up the Celtics scheduling tool and started dragging the scenes around and sort of made a preliminary schedule. And that’s, you know, was really the first thing I needed to do, because I needed to start to figure out what I need in terms of locations, how many actors I need each day and just how many actors I’m going to need, can I have two act, can I just arrange everything in an organized way where I can really optimize that? How many actors will we need in all total? Because that’s a big part of the budget along again with the locations. So I did start to break down the locations a bit. The movie takes place primarily in a dive bar and it really needs to be a dive bar. It’s sort of written as this sort of low-end kind of a bar and the guy that’s working there is kind of a little bit of a directionless dude who’s kind of trying to find his way. So, it sort of needs to be a little bit grungy and then someone comes in and they sort of have this romance and they both sort of move on from there. But a third of the movie is shot, it’s a 93-page script, so a third of the movie is shot in the bar, 37 pages.

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