MUSE · Lesson 4 of 17 · 0:47

Inside a film, end to end

After this you can find every control in a film, in the order you actually use them.

1. 1

   A film is one page with a section bar across the top, and the bar reads left to right in the order the film is made: Story, References, Camera, Storyboard, Canvas, then Production. Sections are earned: a new session opens with only Story, and the rest join as the film grows.

2. 2

   Story is the film in words, and the chat beside it is where you direct. References is who and where: the faces and places that must stay the same in every shot. Camera is the shot itself: a top-down rig you drag, with the lens, the angle and the move.

3. 3

   Storyboard is the keyframe per scene, the first frame each shot is generated from. Canvas is the production line laid out card by card.

4. 4

   Production is last, deliberately, because it is the only section that spends. Every setting the render obeys lives here: the motion engine and resolution, music, visual style, how the cut is assembled, and whether scenes render one at a time or in parallel. The cost sheet quotes all of it before the button does anything.