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For example, if I want the camera to frame the non speaking character in a scene to show their reaction to what is being said, then that should be an option. Videos could easily be improved by giving people more choice on which camera shot they want to use.

It's also very hard to suggest it 'off camera' with a door sound effect because as soon as a character is placed into a scene the camera includes them in most shots. In fact none of the scenes I tried allowed you to have a character exit or enter a scene. Whilst there are sound effects for actions like opening and closing of doors there are no actual character actions for this. Some of these camera angles are questionable whilst others become repetitive (the over the shoulder shot is definitely over used).

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You're stuck with the supposedly 'professional' film making shots selected by the software based on the action and dialogue. There is no option to choose camera angles. If more than one character is in a scene (with a max of two characters per scene) the characters always face each other, even if they're not in the same location. What's frustrating though is that for each scene, there are only a handful of locations characters can be placed. I tried to give the characters appropriate emotions and actions to suit the dialogue. Unfortunately I don't know as much about coffee as they did about cheese.ДЄs you can see from the video it's not going to win any acting or film making awards but the results are okay given the limitations. Monty Python fans may spot my inspiration as being The Cheese Shop sketch. On the film making side of things, below is a single scene comedy sketch I wrote, brought to life by Plotagon's 3D actors. If just this aspect of the software was improved Plotagon would be a really fun tool for story tellers. Pretty much the way dedicated script writing software does. Writing could be sped up dramatically, with the flow of ideas left unbroken,` if predictive text was built in to select characters, actions, emotions etc. Combine that with having to use the mouse or track pad to select which character is talking and their mood, script writing becomes a slow affair. I'm not the fastest at touch typing but even I can out type the screen cursor by several words. It's a great idea but for an application that runs locally on my computer it's very slow. Add character movements, actions and expressions, as well as sound effects and music simply by inserting typical stage directions within your script (see image, Fig 1). Choose a scene, place up to two characters at any of the predefined locations within the scene and start writing your dialogue. Scripts are set out pretty much in the standard screen writing format.

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Plotagon simplifies the film making process by linking what happens in your movie directly to the act of writing your script. I say that because, even if you'd had the most basic training in the art of film making, Plotagon is going to frustrate you with it's rigid placement of actors locked camera choices and step by step interpretation of your script.Д«ut let's back up a bit and look at what Plotagon is attempting to do. Now that I have had further chance to really explore the software I can safely say that Plotagon will likely be frustrating for anyone with any film training at all. At the time I hadn't really looked very deep into what Plotagon could do.

I've briefly reviewed Plotagon's Animation Tool before as part of my Six DIY Animation tools post and wasn't very impressed.