Scenergia

The world behind the scene.

A script becomes one consistent world: a world that can be found, made and put on camera. Scenergia builds the tools for its three layers.

  1. The scriptThe key plate. It holds the other three in register.
  2. DiscoverThe physical world. Skenic finds it.
  3. CreateThe printed world. Chronotype makes it.
  4. ControlThe digital world. Mombie plays it on cue.

42 INT. ORROWBY & VANCE CARTAGE, OFFICE. NIGHT

Ines folds the letter back along its crease. Through the window the firm's van idles in the yard, lights off.

Her phone lights up: DISPATCH. She lets it ring.

INES

You sent it on Friday. You said so in writing.

foundmadeon screen

Five lines on the page. On the day: a liveried van, a furnished office, a wall of paperwork and three live screens.

Skenic. The physical world

Discover

Find what the scene needs.

Props, set dressing, vehicles and locations. Skenic breaks the script down, finds the suppliers who have what it asks for, and keeps the production hub in one place.

Open Skenic
Skenic prop list, sc. 42
1Box van, liveriedhero vehicle, yard
1Dispatcher's desk, two pedestalsoffice
1Filing cabinet, three-draweroffice
5Box filesshelf
1Wall clockpractical
1Desk lamppractical
Chronotype. The printed world

Create

Make what the scene invents.

Documents, newspapers, packaging, signage, labels, menus, maps, photographs and signatures. Seventeen studios, period-correct and fictional.

Open Chronotype
Chronotype sheets, sc. 42
3Letter on the firm's letterheadhero, with repeats
1Fascia signabove the window
1Wall calendar, March 2011period-correct
1Operator's licence, framedfictional authority
4Route map and delivery notespinboard
8Spine and drawer labelsfiles, cabinet
Mombie. The digital world

Control

Put the world on screen.

The phones and screens in shot: messages, calls, notifications and interactive on-camera UI, cued from the director's tablet.

Open Mombie
Mombie cue list, sc. 42
Q1Phone: incoming call, DISPATCHon action
Q2Phone: rings out, missed callafter the line
Q3Monitor: dispatch board, van 4 goes darkon the cut
Q4CCTV: the yard, loopingruns through the take

From script to screen, in one line.

  1. ScriptWhat the page asks for.
  2. DiscoverSkenic finds it.
  3. CreateChronotype makes it.
  4. ControlMombie plays it on cue.
  5. ScreenWhat the lens sees.

One invented firm, the same in every layer.

"title": "Low Tide at Marrowmere",
"year": 2011,
"town": "Marrowmere",
"firm": {
  "name":  "Orrowby & Vance Cartage",
  "brand": "BR-OV-2217"
},
"strictness": "period-correct"

The production file is written once and read by all three products. So the firm on the letterhead is the firm on the van is the firm in the phone.

The film, the town and the firm are invented for this page.

ORROWBY & VANCE Cartage. Est. 1931
On the vanSkenic lists the vehicle and the livery it has to carry, so the supplier quotes for the right van.
ORROWBY & VANCE Cartage. Est. 1931 Ref. OV/2217 Miss Calloway, The consignment did not leave the yard on Friday. The van was not ours. T. Vance, Dispatch
On the letterheadChronotype sets the name, the reference and the dispatcher's signature on the sheet Ines is holding.
In the phoneMombie puts the same name on the incoming call, and rings it when the director gives the cue.

Made inside a working art department.