Shots, Storyboards & Whiteboards

Once the script exists, the Plan tools help you decide how you'll shoot it. All three of these surfaces are built on the same scenes your screenplay derives, so they stay in step with the writing.

Shots

The shot list — planned camera setups for each scene, ready for on-set logging.
The shot list — planned camera setups for each scene, ready for on-set logging.

The Shots page is your shot list, grouped by scene. Under each scene, add a shot with Add shot and describe it with:

  • Angle, Size, and Move — chosen from standard cinematography taxonomies.
  • Camera and Audio — free-text notes for anything else.

Scenes are grouped by screenplay. Omitted scenes are badged, deleted scenes that still hold shots stay visible and flagged, and shots whose scene can't be found fall into an "Unknown scene" group — so no planned work ever disappears.

From here you can publish the shot list as a publication, or jump straight to take logging with the Open logging button. Takes logged on set show up here read-only as counts ("3 takes, 1 circled").

Storyboards

Storyboards let you draw scene-by-scene panels on a zoomable canvas. The workspace has a script rail on the left, the drawing canvas in the middle, an inspector on the right, and a filmstrip of scenes and their panels along the bottom.

  • Draw with pen, eraser, pan, and zoom tools, on multiple layers you can add, rename, reorder, hide, lock, and delete.
  • Add a board per scene, then duplicate or delete panels from the filmstrip.
  • Caption each panel — its Title, Action, and Dialogue captions auto-populate live from the linked script elements (a "Live" badge shows when text is derived; typing overrides it, clearing restores it). Add timing and notes too.
  • Link shots to a panel — attach an existing shot or create a new one on the spot.

Whiteboards

Whiteboards are a freeform planning corkboard. Drag cards onto a zoomable canvas to arrange your story visually.

  • A left palette offers draggable Beats, Characters, Scenes, and Storyboards — drop any of them on the board to create a live card that stays in sync with the underlying entity.
  • Create a blank board with or start from a template that seeds a set of story beats. Multiple boards appear as tabs you can rename, duplicate, and delete.
  • Switch between Canvas and Outline views — the outline is an ordered, editable list of your beats — and export the outline to Markdown or CSV.

Whiteboards are ideal for beat-boarding a story, mapping character arcs, or laying out a sequence before you commit it to the page.

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