Cliff Hall introduces Plot Rocket as a tool for series planning and outlining.
Setting up a series card with title, genre, tone, logline, and season goals.
Overview of the world-building process: precinct, characters, settings, and lore.
Establishing the series precinct, using Friends as an example.
Character creation: personality types, backstory, physical appearance, goals, etc.
Describing settings: Central Perk and the apartments from Friends.
Defining lore: themes and ideas that help define the show's world.
Using tile view to visualize characters, settings, and lore in a non-linear way.
From world-building to story: creating character, relationship, and thematic arcs.
Exploring how to plot and visualize arcs using a fortune graph.
Bridging the gap between arcs and the actual episode outline.
Creating a season and defining the inciting incident and climax.
Outlining the pilot episode and defining plot lines.
Defining plot lines for Rachel, Monica, and Ross in the pilot episode.
Blending plot lines across acts in the blend view for episode creation.
Navigating through the series data using the map view.
How all the data gathered helps create the episode outline and series bible.
Overview of the series bible content.
Summary of Plot Rocket's goal and a call to try the software.