Pick the shot. It reads the same to the whole crew.
Director, DP, first AC. You already share a shorthand: WIDE, CU, dolly in, 50mm. The grid is built in that language. Pick size, angle and move from preset menus, turn on only the columns the day needs, and one list reads the same on the monitor and on the page.
Size, angle and move come from a menu.
The grid is the camera vocabulary, laid out in columns. Pick from preset menus instead of typing free text, so a CU means a close up on every row and the whole crew reads the same shorthand.
Pick it, don’t describe it.
- Size, angle and moveare menus, not free text. Pick, don’t type.
- One menu the grip, the operator and the DP all read the same
Heavy when the job needs it, minimalwhen it doesn’t.
- Switch on what the job needs, from lens and filter to VFX and cast. Leave the rest off.
- The Minimal preset is one click back to five columns
Shots sit under their scenes, and you check them off.
Scenes are header rows, not labels. Shots group under them, reorder with one drag, and the same list you built becomes the day’s scoreboard once you are rolling.
Drag a scene, the shots come with it.
- Scene headers are grouping rows, not labels; drag the scene and its shots move as one
- Dividers for the day: breaks, meals, company moves, setup changes.
Mark it covered, shot by shot.
- Completed and must-have boxes on every row, tap to mark a batch done
- The stats strip doubles as a filter: tap done, VFX or must-have to narrow the list
Scenes come from the script, no retyping.
The grid does not start blank and it does not sit on its own. Scenes arrive from the breakdown, the storyboard rides beside the shots, and a rewrite stops being a surprise. The honest limit: a script change is shown for you to confirm, it does not re-slot your shots behind your back.
A rewrite shows up as a change list.
- Scenes land as header rows from the breakdown, in script order
- Apply or ignore each change; nothing rewrites your plan until you say so
The board and the list are the same rows.
- Each frame is a shot. The storyboard is a second view of the same rows, not a copy.
- Draw or swap a frame on the board and the list already has it; edits sync both ways
One list, the whole crew.
No printout that is wrong by the time it reaches the truck. Share the list read-only, and presence chips show who else is in the grid with you.
Eyes on it, edits in place.
- A view-only link opens the list for anyone, no login
- Or PDF and CSV for the office, the columns you chose and nothing else
The rest of the kit.
Scriptwriter
Live co-writing, Fountain & FDX.
TOOL 01 →Script breakdown
Tag the page, fill your lists.
TOOL 02 →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.