StoryBirdie

StoryBirdie is a script-first pre-production tool for directors and small video teams. Upload a Fountain, PDF or DOCX screenplay and it returns a tabular shot list: one row per beat, carrying shot size, angle, camera movement, blocking, action, and the characters and props in frame. Every row links back to the lines of script it came from.

From there you shape the coverage rather than author it — merge shots, split a beat, reorder, and regenerate a scene steered by plain-language notes like "handheld throughout" or "wide masters only". Storyboard frames are generated per shot from the same list, with a per-screenplay character bible so a character stays consistent across every frame, plus scene-level controls for time of day, lighting, wardrobe, and anything that must never appear in a frame.

Export the shot list as XLSX, CSV or Markdown, the storyboard as a print-ready PDF, or a Generation Brief containing the shots, the character bible and one reference frame each, in the field convention Veo 3, Sora 2, Runway or Kling expect.

Free to try — every account gets 20 credits. Credit packs from $5, subscriptions from $19 per month.