Start the project
Create a Room for your film idea
Start with a rough idea or bring in the material you already have. Invite collaborators and brainstorm together in one shared project.
Bring an idea to life
Start before everything is organized. Rooms gives the project a shared place to take shape, helps your team see what it needs, and keeps the work moving.
How it works
Have an idea, but aren’t sure how to make it?
Rooms helps you work out what the project needs, bring people into it, and find a path forward together.
One example
Making a film in Rooms
Understand the material
Read the material and find the story
Bring scripts, interviews, footage, and research together. Rooms helps surface people, key moments, recurring ideas, and open questions. Follow a thread or shape a paper edit.
Develop the story
Build the storyboard and shot list
Develop characters and scenes, map out the sequence, and turn the writing into shots your team can plan and discuss.
Prepare the shoot
Plan and rehearse the shoot
Bring the people, places, access, resources, budget, and schedule into view. See what’s settled and what still needs attention, then rehearse scenes before the day.
Run the shoot
Coordinate the shoot as it happens
Use Field Desk to track each planned shot as captured, changed, blocked, or needing review. Add field notes so the project reflects what actually happened.
Shape the edit
Use what happened to shape the edit
Bring the footage and field notes back to the project. Revisit key moments, build a paper edit, and shape the next cut from the material you actually got.
Other ways to use Rooms
The same Rooms supports so much else
Make a photo shoot
Connect the visual idea to the people, place, timing, access, and production needs of the shoot.
Put on an event
Bring together the place, vendors, setup, access, timing, and what needs to happen next.
Develop a research project
Bring sources together, explore how ideas relate, and shape what you learn into useful next work.
What stays with the project
The project keeps its context as it changes
The Room keeps the film’s material, creative work, decisions, and next steps together. When the work changes, the team can keep building without reconstructing the project from scratch.