Subtitles of the Movie

So once we've set kind of the boundaries of our project, some of the parameters such as the project start date and the title and things like that it's time to start entering in task information and we can do that just by simply using the Gant chart view which again should be the default view here so make sure that's selected. Doesn't have to be the Gant chart by the way, but one thing the Gant chart has is this task list along side the bar graph of the actual timing of the tasks. So I'm going to expand the space that you see in this task list here and I'm going to set my insertion point here with a click and this behaves very much like a spread sheet, it's not exactly a spreadsheet but behaves very much like one. And so what you can do here is just set the insertion point, notice that the mouse cursor changes to the little cross when your making a selection of a cell and what we can do here is just start typing in the name of a task. So what I'll do here is I'll just think about what's the first thing I need to do if I'm going to make a movie, if I'm going to do a movie project. Well I probably need to write the script and now I have several options. If I press enter I will just drop down to the next task in my task list and there's some default values that are used to give the task a duration. So one day starting on the project start date, notice that it's 6-1-07, 6-1-07 is also the finish with this one day task and again these are just defaults that are used as far as the duration. If I press enter as I am entering tasks and notice that it's also given a number, this is task number one, write the script, what should task number 2 be? So how about for task number 2 we try to hire the keys and so on and so on, hold auditions. Whatever your task may be in your project you can just type them in, select that task name box here or the entry cell, type in what you want and then press enter. So as I'm entering these also as we've seen I'm just taking the default value and the default value is that the duration, the default duration for a task is one day. Well what if I have something like scout locations and that is going to take me more then one day, what I did here was I just hit tab on the keyboard and that takes me over rather then down if I press enter. It takes me to the right in this spreadsheet type of a list here and it takes me to the duration column where I can enter in additional days. Now I can use the mouse but I think it'll be faster and easier for you if you just keep your hands on the keyboard. If I just do 3 and then press enter it is a default duration of 3 days. So if I don't have any abbreviation at all the default is again for a day long duration. So 3 and enter gives me 3 days, 7 and enter gives me a 7 day duration for the task. Now there are some other abbreviations that you can use, if I do 4H that's four hours. If I do 3W, what do you think that would be? That would be of course 3 weeks for the task and that certainly may be the case if we're doing something like scouting locations. Maybe we do need a month to scout locations, now here's what I did I typed in M and what you see is M is the duration of minute, that's the abbreviations for minute, so don't get tripped up on that. Instead if you want a month you have to do one MO, so there's one month's worth of time starting on Friday 6-1-07, ending Thursday 6-28 of 07, that's one month's worth of time. That's how you get started with tasks, I'll give this one a duration of two W for two weeks and notice that until I actually define a value here it's going to have a question mark. So if I do one, it knows that I specified a one day duration. Otherwise it's just this question marks you can just look at them and see oh OK I've just taken the default there so it doesn't really know for sure, it's just guessing that this is what my intentions were, one W for one week. What you should also see is that in your Gant chart bar chart here you should also see those tasks in there because of the durations and because of the start date their all starting on the same day but they all have different durations and we'll deal with how to manipulate all those things as we go forward.