Production Office

Overview of Productions

Sanctioned film and television productions at the UCF-NSCM Film and Mass Media Program are prompted by applied projects or directed research and must take place under direct faculty oversight while you are enrolled in a course, study, or during thesis hours.

Policies and Procedures

Please visit the Policies and Procedures page for official agreement forms to use with cast, crew, and locations as well as to make insurance certificate requests for locations and third-party vendors. Students are expected to read and understand the NSCM-FMM Student Production Handbook. It explains the who, what, when, why, and how to get things done in a professional production environment.

Master Production Calendar

When scheduling your production, there are key operational deadlines and time periods you must adhere to. Use the Master Production Calendar below to keep appraised of these dates.

Production Periods:

Production Seasons are scheduled time periods when sanctioned productions take place during the Fall and Spring semesters. These are windows of opportunity when production services are made available. These seasons are very demanding “sprints” that ramp up resources that do not remain open year long. There is a limited amount of production slots for each week of the season. Students are expected to work with faculty and operations staff to schedule their productions in a timely manner to earmark resources and to not conflict with other sanctioned productions.
Grey Periods are times during the academic year when the availability of production services is limited.
Blackout Periods are times during the academic year when student productions are not permitted to take place.

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Production Forms

Use these template forms to help your properly prepare, organize, and document your production process. Many courses will require you to use some of these documents to complete assignments and projects.

Pre-Production

Script Breakdown Sheet

Storyboard

Shot List

Cast Details

Location Scouting Sheet

Crew Contact List

Cast Contact List

AV Script

Script Continuity

Page Count

Scene Count

Wardrobe Outline

One-Line / Continuity Synopsis

Continuity Log / Shot Notes

Editor’s Log

Editorial Daily Notes

Daily Wrap Report

Production

Call Sheet

Camera Report

DAM Report

Sound Report

Weekly Cost Report

Petty Cash Chit

Petty Cash Accounting

Daily Production Report

Incident Report

Post-Production

Music Reference Sheet

Cast and Crew

Most of you will be dipping directly into the network of talent cultivated around you in your classes and while working on various projects, but for those of you who may need help finding talented actors and able crew we provide a central casting database and a student film jobs board to assist.

FMM Central Casting Database

A private database of Central Florida actors who are interested in working on student productions at the UCF-NSCM Film and Mass Media Program. Students in production courses can get login credentials from their instructor-of-record.

Equipment and Facilities Reservations

The Film Program at the UCF Nicholson School of Communication and Media provides an assortment of camera, sound, lighting, grip, and other production equipment to complete course and thesis-generated creative projects. If you would like to see and overview of the Film and Mass Media Production Facility you can do so be visiting our Equipment and Facilities page.

Film Equipment Room | NSCM 157

This office supports narrative and documentary film productions as well as experimental filmmaking activities. It serves as the primary point-of-service for Film students and faculty who are going into production and need to checkout production equipment or use of a soundstage.

Filmming on Campus and Location Permits

Need to obtain a production permit and/or request permission conduct production activities in a public space? Please be sure to read the Location Permits section of the UCF-NSCM-FMM Student Production Handbook as it provides a detailed framework to help guide you. When in doubt, it is always best to reach out to the appropriate office to determine if you will need a permit, and/or additional oversight and permissions (i.e. police, park rangers, private interests, etc.), as it is very dependent on the type of project, its scale, and the desired location of the production.

UCF Office of Communications

Students must contact the UCF Office of Communications when planning productions-of-scale on the UCF main campus and outside of the NSCM Film and Mass Media Production Facilities. Film/TV productions generated by campus noncommercial requests, such as for class assignments, internal use and departmental projects, are permitted on campus but they must seek prior approval if they wish to take place at busy exterior spaces, inside certain campus buildings, and are of a particular size or type. Fees may be charged depending on the extent of the request and its impact on campus activities.

Electronic news gathering activities by students on campus is permitted, but certain campus buildings, residence halls, and offices may be restricted and may require prior clearance to photograph or conduct interviews.

Orlando Film Commission

A division of the Metro Orlando Economic Development Commission (EDC), promotes film and digital media development and production in Central Florida while assisting in further developing the local production infrastructure. Provides one-stop permitting for location filming in and around the metropolitan Orlando area.

Florida Office of Film and Entertainment

Provides valuable information about the indigenous entertainment community as well as a listing of the wealth of resources and services available for film and video production here in the state of Florida.

Third-Party Vendors, Service Providers, and Other Resources

We try to provide as many of the resources you’ll need to complete your projects, but sometimes, depending on the scale of your production, what we have to offer just isn’t enough. In the event you require additional resources here are some vendors and other service providers that you can utilize to help fill the gaps.

While we generally consider these to be reputable companies and outlets to work with, these lists should not be considered as an official endorsement and these service providers are to be used at your own discretion.

Cast and Crew Networks

Film Orlando Production Directory – The Orlando Film Commission’s database of local production resources such as professional crew, locations, equipment, and much more.
Green Room Orlando – Cast and crew jobs board for the Central Florida area.
Mandy.com – Get access to the latest acting auditions, film jobs, TV production and stage jobs, voiceover work, auditions for dancers & singers, jobs in music, child acting auditions and casting calls for extras.
Production Hub – A global network of local crew and vendors that serves the film and video production industry.

Equipment Rental

Some of these vendors will require that you use the department’s rental account and insurance coverage. Please contact the Operations Manager to find out how to get authorization to utilize this.

A-Camera Cinema Rentals – Professional video camera equipment and accessory rentals.
Lensrentals.com – Consumer and professional grade lenses, cameras, sound, and lighting equipment rentals.
MBS Equipment Company – Professional lighting, grip, electrical generator and production vehicle rentals.
ShareGrid.com – A website where filmmakers and photographers can rent gear to each other.
TAI Audio – Professional sound recording equipment rentals.
VER – Professional video camera, lighting, and A/V equipment rental.

Cargo Van and Box Truck Rental

Budget – Provides a variety of box trucks, cargo vans, and pickup trucks.
Enterprise – Provides a variety of box trucks, cargo vans, and pickup trucks.
Hertz – Provides a large variety of box trucks, cargo vans, and pickup trucks.
Penske – Provides a variety of box trucks and cargo vans.
U-Hual – Provides a variety of box trucks, cargo vans, and pickup trucks.

Insurance and Legal Services

Film Emporium – A company that addresses the unique insurance needs of the entertainment industry, specializing in film productions and special events.
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts – VLA is the leading provider of educational and legal services, advocacy and mediation to the arts community.

Fundraising and Marketing

Fractured Atlas – A non-profit organization that serves a national community of artists and arts organizations. Provides a multitude of services that include financing, business education, casting calls, and much, much more.
IndieGoGo – Crowdsourced fundraising for creative projects.
Kickstarter – A place for creators to share new visions for creative work with the communities that will come together to fund them.
Seed & Spark – A selective crowdsourced fundraising page that focuses on promoting thoughtful and well organized film productions.

Post-Production Services

Adrenaline Films – An Orlando-based facility that provides creative editorial, color correction, and sound mixing services in HD, 2K, or 4K as well as visual effects and digital preservation services.
Continental Film & Digital Labs – Motion picture film processing (16, 35 & 65mm), motion picture print, film-to-video transfer (telecine), tape-to-tape color correction, and more.
FotoKem – Motion picture film processing (16, 35 & 65mm), motion picture print, film-to-video transfer (telecine), tape-to-tape color correction, and more.
Horizons Media Express – An Orlando-based facility that provides a number of products and services including CD and DVD duplication, video tape to digital file transfers, premium recording products, duplication equipment and hard drives. With 22+ tape formats connected to several video work stations they are in a unique position to offer video services most can only dream of providing.
Kodak Film Atlanta – This facility offers comprehensive color negative processing services for motion picture film (16 & 35mm). As well as Spirit 4K/2K High Performance Film Scans, Spirit HD telecine transfers and Cintel BMD Scanning.
Pro8mm – A one-stop shop where Super 8 and 16mm cameras, film, processing, digital mastering and treasured family archival services come together for production and archiving.
Spectra Film & Video – A one-stop-shop for 8mm, 16mm, and 35mm film and video, supplies and service. Specializing in Super 8mm and 16mm, featuring film-to-video transfer (telecine), film camera repair, mechanical editing supplies, film stock, lab processing, and more.
Yale Film & Video – With over 60 years experience in motion picture processing and transfers, Yale Film and Video is committed to giving its customers professional quality processing and transfers at competitive prices.

Music, Sound Effects, and Stock Footage

Artist.io – Music, SFX, and stock footage created by top industry artists.
BBC Sound Effects – 16,000 BBC sound effects made available by the BBC for educational and research use.
Beatopia – Curated beats. Unlimited Rights. One Subscription.
Dareful – Your source for completely free 4K stock video clips that can be downloaded and used any way you want, forever! You never pay a dime.
Filmstro – Adapt professional soundtracks to your video
with the world’s first dynamic, royalty-free music library.
Free Music Archive – A great resource for free music and royalty-free music.
FreeSound.org – This site aims to create a huge collaborative database of audio snippets, samples, recordings, and bleeps all of which are released under Creative Commons licenses that allow their reuse.
Marmoset – Music licensing & music production. All in one place.
Mobygratis – Musician Moby provides free music for use on non-profit film/video projects.
MusicBed – Discover a highly curated roster of label-quality musicians and composers. Built for filmmakers.
Pexel – Free stock photos and videos shared by talented creators.
Pond5 – Royalty-free stock footage, music and sound effects.
PremiumBeat.com – Provides high quality Royalty Free Music & Sound Effects for all new and traditional media, including websites, online videos, slide shows, DVDs and CD-ROMs, television, radio, films, etc.
SoundSnap – All your Sound FX and music needs with one simple subscription.
SmartSound – Customizable royalty-free and stock music.
Videezy – A growing collection of high-quality footage makes filmmaking easy and affordable. Most files are free to download and free to use.
Videvo – A community-based video site that offers plenty of choice. Thousands of free stock videos, motion graphics, music tracks and sound effects, all in one place.

Desktop Apps

Free Desktop Applications

5DtoRGB Batch (macOS) – High-quality AVC/H.264 transcoding for HDSLR users. Free
Adobe Acrobat Reader DC (macOS, Windows)– The global standard for reliably viewing, printing, and commenting on PDF documents. Free
AJA System Test (macOS & Windows) – Use this handy app to check the performance of any drive on your system to ensure it is tuned for the performance you need to use today’s demanding media file formats. Free
Arc Studio – (macOS & Windows) A sophisticated and powerful partner, whether you are working on your first or your thousandth script. Super useful, super easy, and very good looking – just like you. Free
Automatic Duck – Migration tools for translating and transforming Final Cut Pro X timelines to Motion and After Effects projects.
Audacity (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – An easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder. Free and Open-Source
Avid Codecs LE for QuickTime – This codec pack allows QuickTime movies using Avid codecs to be used on systems without Avid Media Composer installed.
Avidemux (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A unique video editor designed for simple cutting, filtering and encoding tasks. Free and Open-Source
Blender (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A free and open source 3D animation suite. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation.
Burn (macOS) – Simple but advanced disc burning. Free
Cinelerra (Windows, Linux) – A capable non-linear video editing software with titling, effects, and transitions. Free and Open-Source
ClipGrab (macOS, Windows) – Downloads and converts videos from most major video hosting websites. Adware
Celtx Shots (macOS) – An innovative and super-useful pre-vis tool. You can add images to storyboard sequences, set camera angles and descriptions for each shot, and tie-in camera and lighting setups that you can easily sketch yourself from the more than 600 included clip-art images. Free
DaVinci Resolve (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A dynamic application with a suite of innovative tools for editing , visual effects, motion graphics, color correction and audio post production. Free
DCP-O-Matic (macOS, Windows) – A tool to create Digital Cinema Packages (DCPs) from videos, images, sound and subtitle files. You can use it to make content for playback on DCI-compliant cinema projectors. Free and Open-Source
ffmpeg (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video. Free and Open-Source
FileZilla (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – Free and open source FTP client. Free and Open-Source
Format Factory (Windows) – Multifunctional, multimedia file processing tools. Freeware
Gimp (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program, software developed for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. Free and Open-Source
Handbrake (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – Handbrake is a multi-platform, multi-threaded video transcoder and disc ripper. Free and Open-Source
IINA (macOS) – The modern media player for macOS. Powered by the open source media player mpv, IINA can play almost every media file you have. Free and Open-Source
Kdenlive (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A feature-rich, nonlinear video editor complete with multi-track video editing, titler, key-framable effects, transitions, and scopes for audio and video calibration. Free and Open-Source
Lightworks (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A professional, non-linear editor for video assembly and mastering that supports a wide variety of workflows and codecs. Freemium Software
MakeMKV (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A one-click solution to convert videos into free and patents-unencumbered format that can be played everywhere. Free and Open-Source
OBS Studio (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – Software for video recording and live streaming. Free and Open-Source
Open Office (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A powerful, free office suite that includes word processing, spreadsheets, multimedia presentation, and other software. Free and Open-Source
OpenShot (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A free, open-source video editor with effects, transitions, and titling. Free and Open-Source
Post Haste (macOS, Windows) – A project management tool that allows you to setup file and folder templates for your media projects. Free
Processing (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A programming language, development environment, and online community. Free and Open-Source
QLab (macOS) – A powerful macOS software for designing and playing back sound, video, light, and show control cues. Free and Premium versions.
Shotcut (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – Shotcut is a powerful, cross-platform video editor. Free and Open-Source
ShowBiz PC Envelope (macOS, Windows) – A standalone version of the PC module from Showbiz Budgeting and Actualization. Showbiz PC Envelope will keep you organized during prep, shoot, and wrap.
ShowBiz PO Log (macOS, Windows) – Allows crew in the field to enter their purchase orders, including vendor and payment info, and email the file to the lead accountant.
Skype (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – Messaging, HD voice and video calling will help you share experiences and get things done with others. Free
Video Projection Tool (VPT) (macOS, Windows) – A rich tool for projecting mapping on complex forms, adapting a projection to a particular space/surface, combing recorded and live footage for multiscreen HD playback, and for interactive installations using Arduino sensors or camera tracking ++. Free
VirtualDub (Windows) – A video capture/processing utility that has been streamlined for fast linear operations over video. It has batch-processing capabilities for processing large numbers of files and can be extended with third-party video filters. Free and Open-Source
Visual Studio (iOS, Windows) – A code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. Free
VLC (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – VLC is a cross-platform multimedia player and framework that supports most media files as well as DVD, Audio CD, VCD, and various streaming protocols. Free and Open-Source
xACT (macOS) – Audio compression toolkit. Free
Zoom (macOS, Windows) – Unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and group messaging into one easy-to-use platform.

Premium Desktop Applications

Adobe Creative Cloud (macOS, Windows) – Provides a full suite of creative apps and online services so you can make anything you can imagine.
- Adobe Acrobat Pro DC – Complete PDF solution for a connected world.
- Adobe After Effects – Industry standard motion graphics and visual effects.
- Adobe Animate – A new age for animation.
- Adobe Audition – Bring stories to life with audio.
- Adobe Bridge – Centralize your creative assets.
- Adobe Character Animator – Animate in realtime.
- Adobe Dreamweaver – Design and develop modern, responsive websites.
- Adobe Illustrator – Create stunning illustrations and graphics.
- Adobe InDesign – Design and publish elegant layouts.
- Adobe Media Encoder – Quickly output video files for virtually any screen.
- Adobe Lightroom – Professional photo ingest and editing.
- Adobe Photoshop – Create beautiful graphics, photos, and art.
- Adobe Premiere Pro – Edit and craft polished films and video.
- Adobe Premiere Rush – Create and share online videos anywhere.
- Adobe Prelude – Metadata ingest, logging, and rough cuts.
AutoDesk Flame (macOS, Windows) – Enables post-production professionals to meet today’s tough challenges with high-performing tools for 3D visual effects, compositing, advanced graphics, look development, conform, color management, and editorial finishing.
AutoDesk Smoke (macOS, Windows) – Combines editing workflows with node-based compositing tools in a timeline-based editing environment, helping production studios increase productivity.
AutoDesk Maya (macOS, Windows) – 3D computer animation, modeling, simulation, and rendering software.
Chimpanzee (macOS, Windows) – Scheduling and budgeting tools for small productions.
DaVinci Resolve Studio (macOS, Windows) – A dynamic application with a suite of innovative tools for editing , visual effects, motion graphics, color correction and audio post production with the ability to export high resolution files.
Fade In (macOS, Windows, Linux) – Advanced software used by professionals writing for motion pictures, television, video games, the stage, radio, and more. It features support for multiple languages, tools for outlining, organizing, and navigating, plus extensive screenplay formatting and robust functionality for managing rewrites and revisions.
Final Cut Pro X (macOS) – A complete video post-production studio on your Mac.
- Compressor – Integrates with Final Cut Pro to add custom output settings, distributed encoding, and extensive delivery features.
- Motion – A powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D, 3D, and 360° titles, fluid transitions, and realistic effects in real time.
Final Draft (macOS, Windows) – A screenwriting software for writing and formatting screenplays complete with story mapping, image support, night mode, speech to script, & more.
Gorilla Film Budgeting (macOS, Windows) – Traditional budgeting tool for film & TV productions that includes globals, fringes, tax credits, deferments, rate books and expense tracking.
Gorilla Film Scheduling (macOS, Windows) – Important and breakdown scripts, create call sheets and other reports.
Hedge (macOS, Windows) – Hedge allows you to create multiple copies, backups, and archives from multiple sources – at the same time. Built with video workflows in mind, it supports about every type of storage medium.
Lightworks Pro (macOS, Windows, & Linux) – A full-featured, professional non-linear editor for video assembly and mastering that supports a wide variety of workflows and codecs with Advanced Project sharing, 3D support, and console support.
MacDrive (macOS, Windows) – MacDrive makes your PC smarter giving you the ability read and write to Mac disks. MacDrive creates peace between the platforms.
Microsoft Office (macOS, Windows) – Get the latest Office apps -both the desktop and the online versions – and updates when they happen.
- Excel – Create spreadsheets with ease from templates or on your own, and perform calculations with modern formulas.
- OneDrive – An intelligent files app connecting you to all your files so you can share and work together from anywhere while protecting your work.
- OneNote – Get organized in notebooks you can divide into sections and pages.
- Outlook – Work efficiently with email, calendar, contacts, tasks, and more – together in one place.
- PowerPoint – Get your ideas across with beautiful design, rich animation, cinematic motion, 3D models and icons.
- Word – Write with confidence, knowing intelligent technology can help with spelling, grammar and even stylistic writing suggestions.
Movie Magic Scheduling (macOS, Windows) – Software for production professionals working on schedules for any size project
Movie Magic Budgeting (macOS, Windows) – Software for production professionals responsible for estimating and managing the costs of any project.
NTFS for Mac (macOS) – Write, edit, copy, move and delete files on Microsoft NTFS volumes from your Mac! Fast, seamless, easy to use.
QLab (macOS) – A powerful macOS software for designing and playing back sound, video, light, and show control cues.
Set.A.Light 3D (Windows)- A studio simulator that photographers and filmmakers to construct lighting setups and simulate the expected results. It also exports lighting diagrams in PDF.
Showbiz Budgeting & Actualization (macOS, Windows) – Allows production accountants, production managers and independent producers to create all types of budgets for feature film, TV, commercial, music video, web series and corporate video projects.
ShowBiz Shotlogic (macOS, Windows) – An intuitive new production scheduling application that can handle any situation with a single drag.

Mobile Apps

Free and Premium Mobile Applications

8mm (iOS) – Create old-fashioned 8mm movies in real time.
AJA DataCalc (iOS) – Computes storage requirements for various professional video and audio media formats.
Celtx Index Cards (iOS, Android) – Organize thoughts and map out storylines and plot points quickly and easily.
Celtx Reports (iOS) – Everything your crew needs to prep for the shoot – call times, scenes, locations, weather, contacts, and other important details.
Celtx Script (iOS, Android) – Celtx Script is the mobile scriptwriting app that syncs directly with Celtx online, so you can write and collaborate on scripts from anywhere.
Celtx Shots (iOS) – The first app with both storyboarding and set blocking built-in, so you can create storyboards and block scenes in the field, on the set, or wherever inspiration strikes. And Shots syncs with Celtx online services and desktop software, so you can create anytime, anywhere.
Celtx Sides (iOS, Android) – Easily create and distribute sides to your team for each shooting day. Provide a handy reference for cast and crew to zero in on the day’s scenes.
Department Head (iOS) – A databasing and communications app for film, television, and commercial professionals.
Digital Clapper (Android) – A professional mobile app for synchronizing multiple cameras and sound devices on a film production sets.
Frame.io (iOS) – Native integrations with your favorite NLEs boost the functionality of your workbench and speed up your workflow. Easy-to-add integrations with hundreds of additional apps from task- to dailies-management make Frame.io a customizable hub for all your tools.
FiLMiC Pro (iOS, Android) – One of the most advanced cinematic video camera app for mobile devices. Featuring focus peaking, zebras, true LOG +, manual controls, and so much more.
Kodak Cinema Tools (iOS, Android) – Packed with utilities like Aspect Ratio, Sunrise/Sunset Calculator, Depth of Field Calculator, Glossary, and more!
Moon Seeker (iOS) – A moon tracking program that literally gives you the arc of the moon while overlaying on your iPhone’s camera.
pCAM (iOS) – A time-tested, industry-standard tool. Designed by a working camera technician who understands that cinematography app calculations must be done quickly, simply and on the run.
Photo Tools (Android) – A densely packed photography utility.
Pocket AC (Android) – An app for cinematographers, camera assistants, operators, DITs, and videographers featuring various calculators and charts to help prep and execute productions.
Teleprompt+ (iOS) – Teleprompt+ is a simple yet powerful teleprompter for the iPad.
Stellar (iOS) – The intelligent lighting control app from ARRI.
Sun Seeker (iOS) – A sun tracking program that literally gives you the arc of the sun while overlaying on your iPhone’s camera.
Sun Surveyor (iOS, Android) – Helps filmmakers to better scout locations, plan effectively, and get the right shot by providing detailed information regarding sunrise, sunset, and moon phases.
VLC (iOS, Android) – VLC is a cross-platform multimedia player and framework that supports most media files and various streaming protocols.
Windy (iOS) – Besides tracking current wind conditions this app also provides detailed animated radar, future rain accumulation forecasts, sea temperature, several forms of air quality, and snow depth.
Zoom (iOS, Android) – Unifies cloud video conferencing, simple online meetings, and group messaging into one easy-to-use platform.

Online Apps and Utilities

Media Utilities

Arri Format and Data Rate Calculator – An online tool that calculates the record durations and data rates for different camera settings (combinations of camera model, codec, resolution, project rate, sensor speed, recording media, audio on/off).
Aspect Ratio Calculator – A handy interactive form that helps you calculator aspect ratio values.
Aspect Ratio Matte Generator – This tool generates an image file you can place over a video to mask it to a particular aspect ratio.
Bit Calculator – Convert between bits/bytes/kilobits/kilobytes/megabits/megabytes/gigabits/gigabytes.
Depth of Field Calculator – DOF Master’s online depth of field reference tool (try the WebApp version for iPhone/iPad users).
Frame.io – Native integrations with your favorite NLEs boost the functionality of your workbench and speed up your workflow. Easy-to-add integrations with hundreds of additional apps from task- to dailies-management make Frame.io a customizable hub for all your tools.
RAID Disk Space Calculator – An easy way to calculate the storage capacity of your Redundant Array of Independent Disks.
Red Tools – A multipurpose toolkit designed for use by filmmakers and cinematographers that aid camera setup, including Crop Factor, Recording Time, and Exposure.
Video Space Calculator – A web tool that is intended to give an indication of the amount of space a given video format will take up on disk.
Wipster.io – A new way to share creative work, gather client feedback, and work through revisions – in the cloud, in realtime.

Development / Pre-Production / Pre-Visualization Applications and Tools

Celtx – Write scripts, pre-visualize, and manage productions quickly and easily with an online workspace.
Doodle – Doodle simplifies group scheduling.
Evernote – Capture all of your thoughts, ideas, and inspirations, into a single place. Access everything whenever you need it from your computer, even when offline.
Google G Suite – A free powerful suite of applications that include: multiple email accounts and sophisticated calendars, document creation, and cloud storage.
Google Sky – Visual astronomy online application.
Microsoft Office 365 – Complete online suite of Office software, free to all UCF students.
Power Load Calculator – A simple and helpful tool to determine the remaining electrical circuit capacity, required breaker capacity or required voltage.
SketchUp – A fun and easy to use 3D modeling application that is useful in pre-visualization and design solutions. Made by Google.
Slack – Brings all your communication together in one place. It is real-time messaging, archiving and search for modern teams.
StudioBinder – Provides customizable, online solutions for production managers to better manage their productions, all in one place.
Scenechronize – Cloud-based production scheduling and breakdown software.
Virtual Lighting Studio – An interactive lighting tool to learn how to light portraits with a combination of lighting fixtures
WriterDuet – Collaborate, outline, and create with professional screenwriting software.

Online Storage, Web and Media Hosting

Dropbox – Dropbox is software that syncs your files online and across your computers. It’s an incredible useful tool.
Google Blogger – A simple to use blogging site.
Microsoft OneDrive – Online cloud storage, free to all UCF students.
Soundcloud – The world’s leading social sound platform where anyone can create sounds and share them everywhere.
YouTube – A forum for people to connect, inform, and inspire others across the globe and acts as a distribution platform for original content creators and advertisers large and small.
Vimeo – A community for filmmakers and video creators to share their work with like minded individuals.
Wix – Powerful website creation made simple.
WordPress – An open source software you can use to create a beautiful website, blog, or app.

Notifications - Production Resources