Step by step
How to actually do the work.
Plain-English walkthroughs for the moves a working filmmaker makes every week — pull the screenplay through breakdown, lock the stripboard, dispatch a call sheet, generate AI storyboards, ship hot-cost reports.
Director
10 min read · 5 steps
How to style-lock an AI artist for filmmaking
Train a custom AI artist on 6-10 reference images per style, lock it to your project, and run every generation through Vision-QA so no frame drifts off-model.
12 min read · 7 steps
How to set up a storyboard for a feature
From a finished screenplay to a frame-accurate storyboard with AI generation, drawn refinement, and editorial-ready frames — the working director's pipeline.
12 min read · 7 steps
How to generate AI storyboards from a script
From a finished screenplay to 200 style-locked, character-continuous AI storyboard frames — the full project-aware AI Artist pipeline.
Producer
5 min read · 5 steps
How to break down a screenplay
Tag every prop, wardrobe item, vehicle, and SFX in the 12 industry-standard categories — auto-driven by Dolly in seconds, manual-edited by you.
8 min read · 5 steps
How to build a call sheet from a script
Generate a tomorrow-night call sheet automatically from your shoot-day plus schedule plus breakdown — SMS dispatch + weather + nearest hospital baked in.
12 min read · 5 steps
How to run a shoot day
From wake-up to wrap — call times, scene clearance, continuity, the DPR, and the wrap drink. The 1st AD's operational checklist on one page.
5 min read · 5 steps
How to draft a deal memo for cast
Cast deal memos in five minutes — pulling rate, dates, role, and contact from the cast roster, with one-click PDF + e-sign dispatch.
8 min read · 5 steps
How to track production costs (hot cost)
Daily hot-cost reports that show what the day actually cost vs what it was budgeted for — OT, meal penalties, equipment damage, the full daily variance.
Script
3 min read · 4 steps
How to import a Final Draft (.fdx) screenplay
Bring a Final Draft project into StoryboardCanvas — preserving revision colours, locked pages, dual dialogue, and scene numbers — and start running breakdowns + schedules + call sheets off the same script.
10 min read · 5 steps
How to write a screenplay in Fountain
Plain-text screenwriting — write anywhere, render anywhere. The open standard for screenwriters who prefer their text editor to a proprietary app.