In Tycoon (Story) Mode, around 1928 you should get a building called the Custom Scriptwriting Office. That is what you can use to make your own movies. As you move through the Tycoon Mode, unlocking more costumes, sets, and technology, you can use those things you've unlocked to make a movie in Sandbox Mode (Free from deadlines and objectives).
To keep an actor/actress in the same wardrobe the whole movie so it won't change every scene, drag the person from the left side of the screen once you open the Custom Scriptwriting Office to the coat hanger on the far right. You can toggle having extras in a scene by clicking the mannequin button on the far right. If you want an actor to take the place of an extra (they show up as yellow mannequins) simply drag and drop the actor/actress from the left side onto the wooden mannequin of your choice, then drag that person onto the coat hanger to set the wardrobe.
You can not make your scripts in-game per se, but you can set up scenes and sets and weather, etc, in AMM (Advanced Movie Maker, another name we use for the Custom Scriptwriting Office). You are free, however, to make actual scripts using Microsoft Word, then download Audacity (a free voice recording program - Google it) and add voice overs (VO's) through Audacity. Many of us use it becuase of the free price and that you can edit out background noise and clicks from your VO's as well as using it to trim parts of the dialogue. Once you've recorded a line, click File, then Export as Wav. Send the voice over to C:/Program Files/Lionhead Studios Ltd/The Movies/Movie Sounds.
Also, when finished with a movie in AMM, and once it is "filmed" by the crew (check the option to have scenes film instantly so you don't have to wait), it will end up in the Movie Player section, where you can add voices or subtitles, music, sound effects, and all that. To add your voices you've recorded, click anywhere on the last bar closest to the bottom, which will bring up your folder of all your recorded lines. Find the line, position it where you want in the movie, then right click the line to assign an actor/actress to lip-synch the line. Once totally finished, there should be 3 buttons near the middle right of the screen, saying load, save, and export. Hit export, let the game play back the movie and check for audio that might skip or just make sure it's to your liking before putting it out into the world. Once satisfied and the movie runs through, you'll be given options of exporting (Low, Online, high, Highest). Pick Highest. Then go find something to do to pass the time while the export bar runs through the movie. It takes a while. Once that is done, your movie has officially become a .wmv file, ready to upload to a site. You'll find the file in the My Documents/The Movies/Movies folder.
Next, log onto Tmunderground.com, register, and upload your movie! Once done with that, you can join the adjoining forums over at tmoaradio.com/vb/index.php where a LOT of people are at. Sadly the forums here are pretty much dead, so hop on over to those two sites and let everyone know your here!
Hope that explained everything.
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