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Quick parse.

Scenes, characters, locations and dialogue — pulled out in under a minute. Best for a fast overview.

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Adds props, visual traits, character motivations, aliases and AI-suggested detail pulled straight from the script.

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Every element, in its own card.

Approve, edit, or extend any card. The screenplay stays the source of truth.

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Four scene thumbnails extracted from a screenplay — an explorer at sunset, a musher pushing a dog sled, a frostbitten close-up, and a glowing tent under the northern lights.
Character card — full-length reference of an Arctic explorer in a fur-trimmed parka holding fur mukluks.Location card — wind-swept Arctic plain at dawn with a low sun and distant cliffs.Prop card — vintage wooden dog sled with leather harness and traces on a studio backdrop.Prop card — canvas bell-style expedition tent guyed out on a studio backdrop with a warm interior glow.
Character

Kai Holm

KAI HOLM (38), weather-beaten and broad-shouldered, moves like a man who has spent more winters outside than in. A short, frost-flecked beard. Pale eyes that have learned to squint against white horizons. Calm in the way that only the genuinely tired are calm.

Location

EXT. Arctic Desert — Dawn

A frozen nothing. Wind-sculpted snow stretches to a horizon so flat it looks drawn. A low sun, more rumour than light, smears the sky in pale cyan and bruised peach. Spindrift drifts sideways across the ice, hissing.

Prop

Dog Sled

A traditional wooden DOG SLED — hand-built, ash and oak, lashed at the joints with rawhide. Steel runners worn bright from miles. A coiled tug line on the deck, harness laid out in front like a promise.

Prop

Expedition Tent

A small canvas EXPEDITION TENT — pyramid-cut, single pole, the colour of old paper. Guy lines staked into hard snow. The entrance flap hangs half-unzipped and from inside comes a slow amber glow — the only lit window for a hundred miles.

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Characters, locations and props travel with the project — into assets generation, storyboards and animatic, final cut. The breakdown is the source of truth. Everything visual downstream anchors back to it.

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