I’m a film editor and I just started playing around with Miro. So far I am amazed how light and flexible it feels. I could imagine using it to visualise a feature film - a board with still frames and scene description for each scene. In the past I used that kind of a board with printed pictures in the analogue world or with trello in the digital world. But Miro feels more flexible and elegant for that. Walter Murch is a great example how he uses that kind of boards:
https://nofilmschool.com/sites/default/files/styles/article_1500/public/wm_editing.jpg?itok=-DOciLjh
I played around with the different options and I think the best way to archive that in Miro is to use a picture from the still and a card for the scene description. Then use both inside a frame, that i can colorcode and group everything. In the end I have around 150 frames for each scene and I would use them in a frame for the whole movie.
Now, it would be great if I could use the Grid Function of the frame, so if I switch scene 143 with scene 25 or delete scene 36, all other cards automatically move in the right place and I don’t need to manually move everything around everything.
I think the Grid Function is only possible with individual stickies and cards but not for frames inside frames and not for grouped objects.
I guess my feature request would be to make that grid function also available for frames inside frames.
Another way would be to add pictures to a card but I think the use of frames is way more flexible because I can attach different objects to it and group them.
Or is there any other workaround that I don’t know yet?
Best regards!
What an interesting use case,@Marty S. !
I’ve remembered of@ArkyBoy who is plotting out a novel in Miro with the help of the Customer Journey template
Marty, you are right that you can enable the grid feature only for the objects inside the frame. It doesn’t work for frames within a frame. I will share your wish with the team
Just in case you don’t know yet, you can select several frames and move them together and not one by one.