Characters, Places & Items

As you write, FilmKit recognizes the characters, places, and items in your script and gathers them into a shared catalog — the project's breakdown. Because they come from the writing, they stay honest to it: rename a character in the script and it follows everywhere.

Characters, Places, and Items each get their own section under Imagine, and all three share the same detail layout — an icon, a name, a description, and a to remove the entry.

Characters

The character catalog — every role in the production, with its bible and casting.
The character catalog — every role in the production, with its bible and casting.

The Characters list is the cast of your story. Open a character to reach a tabbed detail page.

A character's page — description, the character bible, and where they appear.
A character's page — description, the character bible, and where they appear.
  • Edit — the character's icon, name, description, and aliases. Here you also handle casting (link one or more project contacts to the role), fill in a detailed character bible, and set casting requirements — the physical and other attributes the role needs. A Find matching talent button jumps straight to the public directory, pre-filtered to those requirements.
  • References — every place the character appears across your screenplays, grouped by screenplay and scene, each linking back into the editor at that line.
  • Dialog — all of the character's dialogue in one place, with cue origin and dual-dialogue badges; click a line to open it in the script.

Places

Places are the story locations named in your script headings — INT. KITCHEN, EXT. STREET, and so on. Each place gets a detail page you can flesh out with an icon, description, and notes. Places are the story side of location; the real-world buildings you actually shoot in are Locations, which you can link back to one or more places — see Scheduling & Production.

Places — the settings your scenes are written in, ready to link to real locations.
Places — the settings your scenes are written in, ready to link to real locations.

Items

Items are the props, wardrobe, and set pieces your production needs. The Items list groups entries by type (with an "Uncategorized" group for anything untyped), so you can see all the props or all the wardrobe at a glance.

Items — props, costumes, vehicles, and effects, grouped by breakdown category.
Items — props, costumes, vehicles, and effects, grouped by breakdown category.

How the catalog connects

Everything in the catalog is tied together through the script:

  • The breakdown shows, per scene, which characters, items, and places it needs.
  • Tags link a catalog entry to the scenes and elements where it appears — "this scene needs this prop" — so a breakdown sheet is always current.
  • Casting connects a character to the contacts you're considering or have cast.
  • Shots and storyboards reference the same scenes these entities live in.

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