Director FAQ [5] Director Basics [5.2] Whats the relationship between the stage, the score and the cast?
According to traditional computer science models, the basic elements of a program are its code, its data, and its input & output. Loosely, the score, cast and stage correspond to these elements. The cast is a storehouse for all of the elements of your movie, whether graphics, sounds, quicktime/AVIs or text. (In practice, some of these can be stored outside the Director file, but even then getting them into your movie is usually done via the cast.) Items from the cast are shown in the movie, but the cast itself is not. In most cases, the things appearing onstage are “instances” (that is, copies) of the original castmember rather than the actual cast itself. Multiple instances can be onstage at the same time, even with some of their attributes differing (eg, the same picture at different sizes). The score is a set of instructions describing how the various cast members crop up in your movie and change and interact over time. The score window represents a kind of “map” of the movie’s acti
