Mark the word. It fills the list.
The breakdown you already do, minus the printout and the box of coloured pens. Select a word on the script page, pick a category, and it becomes an element on that category’s list, counted and measured in eighths.
One pass, marked where it stands.
Read it once. Select any word or phrase, pick a category, and it is tagged in place. No second copy of the script, no separate breakdown tool to keep in sync.
The coat, the rain, the truck. One pass.
- Tag right in the editor, on the live script page
- One passage, many tags: the coat is wardrobe, the rain is SFX, the truck a vehicle
A lane for everything on set.
Every category, cast through lighting. Every mark drops into the right one, and each lane keeps its own count and its own list.
Every department reads its own.
- Cast, props, wardrobe, vehicles, animals, camera, lighting and the rest, each on its own list
- SFX kept apart from VFX, so practical and post read separately
Counts per category, eighths per scene.
The breakdown view lines up every category in one rail, each with a live count. Open a scene and you see everything tagged in it, with its length in eighths, INT / EXT and day / night.
Every lane, its tally.
- Every category in one rail with a live count. Open a scene to see what it needs.
- Scene strips carry page eighths, INT / EXT and day / night
- On lock, inserts become 12A and 12B, cut scenes go OMITTED, not gone
Synced from the script, onto the board.
The breakdown doesn’t start empty, and it doesn’t end on your screen. Scenes, cast and locations arrive from the script, and the elements you tag land on the schedule strip and the call sheet, with no retyping.
Scenes, cast and locations, already in.
- Synced from the Scriptwriter: every scene lands in script order
- Character cues come in as Cast, sluglines as Locations. It reads live, so it’s never out of date.
- Honest limit: extraction tracks how cleanly the script is formatted; messy cues need a hand
Send the breakdown, not the file.
When the breakdown is ready for eyes and not edits, send a read-only link. It opens for anyone you send it to, and there is nothing to break.
One link, the whole department.
- A view-only link opens the breakdown for anyone, no login
- Update the breakdown and the same link shows the current version
The rest of the kit.
Scriptwriter
Live co-writing, Fountain & FDX.
TOOL 01 →Shotlist
Every setup, planned.
TOOL 03 →Storyboard
Frames beside the shots.
TOOL 04 →Canvas
Pin the look on one board.
TOOL 05 →Cast & crew
People and lists, in sync.
TOOL 06 →Budget
Quoted against actual.
TOOL 07 →Locations
Scouted, pinned, permitted.
TOOL 08 →Shooting schedule
The stripboard, alive.
TOOL 09 →Call sheets
Built from the schedule.
TOOL 10 →Get in early.
Curtyn is in open beta and free to use. Every tool, one project, and the people who need to see it. Start free and bring your production in.