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[St] [Working with Predefined Character, Actor, and Set Lists in Story]
[Male] One of the most important aspects of any
collaborative, creative project is in communication
and sharing information about the project with other users who are contributing.
For example, right now I'm looking in this Discovering Adobe Story project,
and if I click on the Production Information button here
it's kind of like an elegant cog symbol.
You'll notice that I've got a whole bunch of additional information
that I can add to this project.
This information is used in all production report headers and tables.
You'll notice as well that over on the right here
I've got the option to edit the series information,
so if I'm working on a multi-part series
I can put in the shared information, the series name,
the series number, and also the individual program names.
In this case, we're talking about a series of travel programs for
a little girl called Lucia.
All of this information can be associated with the project,
and it just means in those larger organizations where there are
a few more users working on the project
it's easier to find out what's going on without having to call somebody up.
Story also supports multiple lists, and these serve a couple of functions.
Here in this project if I click on the Manage Lists button at the top
you'll notice I've got the option to add characters, actors and sets.
These are useful for collaborators.
Imagine, for example, if you're working with a costume designer,
and they need to know which characters are in your film.
But they're also used by the automated scheduling features
that allow Story to automatically link together
characters and actors and locations.
This is super easy to set up.
Right now I've got Lucia Character List selected,
so this is the character list associated with my project.
If I click Edit, you'll notice that it's completely blank.
It's pretty easy to work out what to do with this interface.
You can click Create New to create a new character,
give them a name, and you can specify a screen name if you'd like
and notice here--this is important--I've got the option to assign an actor.
Now, I'm going to delete this character and click OK.
I want to show you my actor list where I've got 3 actors listed.
I've got an Alfred Jones, a Lucy Smith, and a Mary Smith.
These are my actors.
They're associated with my film, and I can put in things like an address and phone number
and so on, all of which is useful when we're producing call shoots.
I'm just going to go back out here for a second.
The location list is a very similar affair.
I want to go into this Lucia Visits Marbella script.
Now that I've created lists and these are associated with the project
you'll notice that I've got these little blue plus symbols everywhere.
And what these are allowing me to do is automatically
populate those lists with things like location names and character names.
Let's just do this with our character names.
I'm going to click on the plus here next to Lucia,
and I'm going to get a little message that says okay,
Lucia has been added to the character list.
Notice that plus symbol has disappeared.
I'll just scroll down a little bit.
Let's have Lucia's mum.
And notice it's disappeared down here as well
where Lucia's mum appears again, and let's have Lucia's dad.
Now, the reason this is possible is that Adobe Story knows
which bits of text are a character name, which one is a dialogue,
which is action and so on and so on.
Let's jump back to projects at the top here and go back to Manage Lists,
and let's now have a look at the edited character list.
And lo and behold, we've now got 3 new characters that have appeared automatically.
Now, if we look again at our actor list, there we go, there's our 3 actors.
Okay, I'm now going to go back into the character list.
I'm going to select Lucia, and I'm going to click Assign
to assign an actor to that character.
Let's have Lucy Smith. Click Assign.
Let's do the same thing for Lucia's dad.
Let's have Alfred Jones as this actor.
I've just made up these names, of course.
Here we are. Wonderful.
Okay, now Adobe Story knows
the relationship between those characters and those actors.
It's a very similar affair when setting up locations.
If I close here and go back to authoring,
I can say there's a location, Lucia's lounge.
Notice if I hover over this I get a little tool tip that says
do you want to add this to the set list?
Yeah, let's have the Spanish villa.
Let's have the villa kitchen.
There we go. That's added.
Let's go back, get back to our lists.
And you can see the 3 locations that are being added.
Notice I've put the wrong formatting in for the second scene,
so the story naturally presumes the scene is called day.
You need to get that right for Story to correctly identify
the location name.
Because you can define a set as a location or a studio set
Story can factor this in when producing and editing schedules.
If I want to change the list that's being used for a particular project,
let's say I'm going to go back to my main characters here in the character list,
I can click Assign, and there we go.
Those are now the characters associated with this project.
Remember that these lists are associated with the project
rather than being associated with a specific script
or schedule or any other kind of document inside the project.
And of course, all this information is used by things like the automated
scheduling features in Adobe Story, but it also allows for
easier collaboration between multiple users
sharing the workload on a creative project.
