Together Gorilla Scheduling 6 and Budgeting 6 are $430, and individually, they are $250 each. It all depends on your workflow and project needs. The value comes with how long you might use any program before you need to pay to upgrade, or decide if a lease option like Celtx would be a good fit. Depending on your needs, that could could cost $10 or $20 a month. There are options out there like Celtx that are free and offer screenwriting formatting and management tools like contacts and client organization.For a monthly charge, you get a full range of options similar to Gorilla Scheduling and Gorilla Budgeting. If simple organization is needed, a spreadsheet could work just as well - but the level of detail would be minimal and creating reports would be more difficult. But if that level of detail is needed, these are very strong options. There are so many parts, that it could be very easy to create more data input than is needed. Overall the interface is not very attractive the UI could be better looking and more intuitive.
In some cases, the money saved could pay for the cost of the programs and then some. However, when a project is big, these tools can be a huge asset, improving efficiency and saving time and money. It has many parts, and gives deep control over just about every piece of information regarding the logistics of filmmaking. This suite of products isn’t for everyone. Both Gorilla Scheduling and Gorilla Budgeting are integrated to work well together. There are over 30 video lessons for Gorilla Budgeting 6 alone, and you can access them with in program. There’s even a ratebook integration that covers over 13,000 union labor rates, so you're sure to know what things are going to cost. Track your expenses against a budget and get a real-time balance, so you know when you're on track - or over budget. For example, you can label a contact as cast, crew, agent, manager or companies, and you can auto-email them all directly from within the program. Getting all of your human resources together through a normal contact sheet is one thing, but with Gorilla Scheduling 6, you can store contacts by job or organization type. Going one step further, to assist with location organization, you can add location pictures, location maps and other location information. Gorilla Scheduling 6 has a built-in shot library to create a storyboard with shots for each scene, you can also attach cast, equipment and other breakdown elements to each shot. Say you’re building a storyboard to help with production planning or for better communication for your crew. Also within the program are over 40 different video tutorials for just about every part of the software. With Gorilla Scheduling 6, you are able to show your screenplay and organize it by actions, characters or by dialogue. You’re also able to sync screenplay scheduling from a schedule within a screenplay. You can create blackout date alerts for cast, crew and equipment availability. Keeping your calendar straight for all of the moving parts of a production can be a logistical nightmare, but with Gorilla Scheduling 6 you are able to track the shooting schedule, rehearsals, meetings and location scouts, as well as print cast and crew call sheets. It can even automatically email a board to the cast or crew. If you’re used to a traditional production board, Gorilla Scheduling 6 has a stripboard where you can drag and drop strips over the stripboard and customize its appearance by adding labels, changing to vertical or horizontal view and saving design presets. With Gorilla Scheduling 6 you can import screenplays directly from your favorite screenwriting software such as Final Draft, Movie Magic Screenwriter and you can even import story outline and index cards from Jungle’s StoryO. Born from this were Gorilla Scheduling and Gorilla Budgeting, now in version 6. Since then the suite of software that Jungle offers has expanded to many different facets of filmmaking. After making enough modules, in 2002 their products became available to the world. The founders of Jungle Software, makers of the Gorilla production tools, started out as programmers by day and filmmakers by night, so it was a natural fit to use their day jobs as a tool to advance their passion of filmmaking. Gorilla Budgeting 6 is a traditional film budgeting software that includes tools like globals, fringes, subgroups, tax credits, determinants, 4th level budgeting, ratebook integration and expense tracking. Gorilla Scheduling 6 is a traditional film scheduling software with breakdown sheets, stripboards, calendars and cast and crew contact information, along with integration of information like locations, shot list and storyboards.
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