The biggest reason for this proposal is to give filmmakers a space where every step of the production can be managed. In order to do that, Notion could provide filmmakers with new formats that shouldn't be so complicated to adapt.
The script is the core of a production - without it, there's nothing to develop. Script writers have really specialized tools available, such as Final Draft, which gives them a huge amount of elements and industry-based characteristics. The problem: they are really expensive and integrating them into other formats is not easy most of the time; not to mention the struggles of collaboration tools and non-intuitive use. On Notion, creating a page is quick, so I want the same for a script. My view for how it would work is simple: a standard font widely used for this format (Courier New), the basic spacing options which can be done with either the tab key or with shortcuts, and page numbering without having to separate the pages while editing.
Script page
Formatting the script with tab key and other shortcuts
This is probably the document that excites me the most. Doing storyboards is difficult, you have to hire a storyboard artist who draws and delivers their art so you can put it all together in a single format and then animate it using an editing software. Another alternative is to give the artist a printed or digital template to create the drawing and then it has to be turned into an animatic.
Here the idea is to solve those issues by showing a galley view like the one Notion already uses, with a few changes: the option to specify scenes and shots, which are recognized as properties by Notion; input timestamps for the duration of each shot; and on top of it all having an animatic that functions like a presentation without any complications and through really simple settings.
Storyboard
Setting for each shot
Animatic settings
Animatic presentation
This storyboard template and its capabilities would also be useful for any other simple presentation to be done inside of Notion, in the sense that it would give the possibility to present content without creating it or designing it inside Notion (therefore not making it a competitor to other platforms like Pitch, which provide graphic creation tools).
Producers spend a lot of time trying to figure out finances, and Notion is such a complex tool that even I have gotten confused by it and decided not to use it for my personal finances (sorry!). The thing is, although Notion tables are incredibly complex and fully featured, I also wish things were easier. If I wanted to have operations made from certain figures within multiple tables, I found it impossible to do it as someone who is used to Excel or Sheets, being used to a formula and either clicking on the cells I want to include or getting their respective label (e.g. A1) in order to do it.
Now, this is not about changing or eliminating how tables work in Notion, but about giving an option for them to work as basic sheet as well, with the possibility of having multiple tables and consolidated info through formulas or simple clicks anywhere I want - while also having the option to use the already existent complexities of Notion whenever is needed. Below you can find how the labeling would work when a table is selected (here I made it "active" to demonstrate the sequence and show how it would look in both options. When not having any selected, the labels are hidden).
New tables for budgets
How columns, rows and cells work in the tables
This is again a gallery view with properties, the only difference being that there are visual indicators of approved, rejected, and pending items.
How it works: the photography department makes the list of equipment needed, includes images, tags and more; then the production department (whether all of them or only those with enough permissions, depending to their role) decides the viability of these items, marking them as approved, pending or rejected.
Equipment
Characters
I also quite love this new way of presenting information. It's a gallery view too, with the added bonus of having multiple images in a mosaic layout in order to have important references right from the main screen. Also, it shows important bits of information without the user having to separately open the page and making it possible to track casting decisions.