plotwell Features - Screenplay, Storyboard & Production

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Story Development

The story before the script.

Every project starts before page one. Logline, synopsis, treatment, character breakdown and pitch deck live in the studio, and a development agent asks the questions and drafts them with you.

Logline, synopsis, treatment, character breakdown and pitch deck on one shelf
A development agent that interviews you and writes the draft as you answer
Every change it proposes is yours to approve or reject before it lands
Bring in what you already have by pasting from Word, Google Docs or Notes
Version history with checkpoints, one-click restore and DOCX export

STORY DOCUMENTS

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Synopsis - Ash & EmberSynopsis - Ash & Ember

AURA - Character ArcAURA - Character Arc Breakdown

LoglineLogline

STORY WORLD

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CHARACTERS · 5

AURAA 19-year-old scavenger and mechanic born in a small neutral community called HAVEN. She grew up learning to keep dying machines alive.

ELDER MARCUSMentor and father figure to Aura in HAVEN. An old mechanical engineer who survived the Collapse and was one of the founders.

JUNOAura's outside ally, her counterpoint and the catalyst for change. A young mercenary-scout of around 24.

OVERSEER SABLEPrincipal antagonist: the dominant leader of the most powerful hostile community in the region, LA FORJA.

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LOCATIONS · 8View all →

HAVENThe neutral community where Aura was born and raised. One of the few surviving settlements that refuses to take sides.

HAVEN - THE WATER TOWERThe lookout over the settlement. Where Aura goes when she needs to see further than the wall.

HAVEN - MAINTENANCE BAYA cathedral of salvage. Reclaimed pipes snake up the walls, oil-dark and sweating.

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Characters & Locations

A story world, not a list of names.

Characters and places are real records the whole project shares. The cast in your treatment is the cast the breakdown schedules, the storyboard draws, and the call sheet calls in.

Pull cast and locations straight out of the screenplay or your documents
Character profiles with role, arc, relationships and appearance
AI portraits and location plates, generated from one project visual style
A visual profile holds the same face across every panel and every view
One record all the way through: documents, script, breakdown, schedule, call sheet

03

Script Editor

Professional formatting. Nothing else.

Write screenplays the way they were meant to be written. Tab through elements, never think about margins, and export a print-ready PDF in one click.

Scene heading, action, dialogue, parenthetical, transition - all auto-formatted
Import Final Draft (.fdx) and Fountain - export both plus print-ready PDF
Multi-version support: save, compare, and restore any draft
Automatic scene numbering and live page count
Cover page generation with custom title and credits

Untitled Script

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1INT. HAVEN - MAINTENANCE BAY - DAY

The maintenance bay is a cathedral of salvage. Reclaimed pipes snake up the walls, oil-dark and sweating. Sodium lamps buzz overhead, casting everything in amber. Aura, nineteen, hangs upside down inside the guts of a failing filtration pump, her legs hooked around a rusted frame, a respirator mask hanging loose around her neck.

She works with the focus of someone who has done this a thousand times. Her fingerless gloves are stained with grease. A faded scar crosses her left eyebrow. Her hands move with the quiet confidence of a surgeon, but there is a tension in her jaw that has nothing to do with the machinery.

Aura tightens a bolt, then stops. She taps a corroded valve with the back of her wrench. A dull, hollow sound. She taps it again.

AURA

(under her breath)

That's not supposed to sound like that.

She swings down, landing on the grated floor with a soft thud. Wipes her forehead with the back of her glove, leaving a smear of grease across her brow. She studies the pump the way you would study a patient who is not telling you the truth.

The bay door grinds open. ELDER MARCUS, seventy, stooped and gray, enters carrying a coil of cable over his shoulder. His welding goggles hang around his neck. He watches her for a moment before speaking.

MARCUS

You have been at that pump since before the bells.

AURA

It is dying.

MARCUS

Everything is dying. The trick is keeping it alive long enough to matter.

04

Script Doctor

Structural feedback, not just spellcheck.

An AI analysis layer that reads the full script and flags real structural problems - pacing, character arcs, act breaks, and dialogue patterns.

Detects pacing issues, act-break violations, and structural gaps
Character consistency checks across the full script
Dialogue analysis - repetitive phrasing, on-the-nose writing
Per-issue dismissal so notes stay relevant as you revise
Severity levels: error, warning, and suggestion

Script Doctor3 issues82

1.

1INT. HAVEN - MAINTENANCE BAY - DAY

The maintenance bay is a cathedral of salvage. Reclaimed pipes snake up the walls, oil-dark and sweating. Sodium lamps buzz overhead, casting everything in amber. Aura, nineteen, hangs upside down inside the guts of a failing filtration pump, her legs hooked around a rusted frame, a respirator mask hanging loose around her neck.

She works with the focus of someone who has done this a thousand times.

Character

Scene 1

Excerpt

"She works with the focus of someone who has done this a thousand times."

Aura is competent and interesting, but nothing is at stake for her yet. She has no want in this scene.

Suggestion

Give her something she is trying to get before the pump fails, however small.

DismissAcknowledge

Her fingerless gloves are stained with grease. A faded scar crosses her left eyebrow. Her hands move with the quiet confidence of a surgeon, but there is a tension in her jaw that has nothing to do with the machinery.

Aura tightens a bolt, then stops. She taps a corroded valve with the back of her wrench. A dull, hollow sound. She taps it again.

AURA

(under her breath)

That's not supposed to sound like that.

She swings down, landing on the grated floor with a soft thud. Wipes her forehead with the back of her glove, leaving a smear of grease across her brow. She studies the pump the way you would study a patient who is not telling you the truth.

The bay door grinds open. ELDER MARCUS, seventy, stooped and gray, enters carrying a coil of cable over his shoulder. His welding goggles hang around his neck. He watches her for a moment before speaking.

MARCUS

You have been at that pump since before the bells.

AURA

It is dying.

MARCUS

Everything is dying. The trick is keeping it alive long enough to matter.

05

AI Writing Agent

AI that knows the craft.

Generate complete scenes in proper screenplay format, brainstorm story ideas, rewrite dialogue - all with full project context already loaded.

Generate full scenes from a brief - action lines, dialogue, and all
Brainstorming chat with full project and character context
One-click insert at the exact cursor position in the screenplay
Scene expansion, rewriting, and dialogue improvement
Context-aware - the AI knows your characters and story

06

Storyboard

Visualise every shot before you roll.

AI-generated panel images from your scene descriptions. Arrange shots, add metadata, and share a visual plan with your director of photography.

AI-generated panel images from scene descriptions in your script
Shot type (WS, CU, OTS, ECU) and camera movement per panel
Drag-and-drop reordering across the full board
Append AI panels to an existing board or replace all at once
Share a read-only link with your crew

Storyboard

8 shots

1INT. HAVEN - MAINTENANCE BAY - DAY1/3Fill with AI+ Add Shot

#16s

Extreme-wide establishing shot of the maintenance bay: reclaimed pipes snake up oil-dark walls under buzzing sodium lamps.

Extreme widePan left

#25s

Medium close-up on Aura at the open pump casing: her wrench on a corroded bolt, a faded scar over her eyebrow, lit hard from below.

Close-upZoom in

#34s

Wide shot of Aura crouched on the grated floor after dropping down, one hand still on the frame, looking up at the machine.

MediumDolly out

#46s

Over-the-shoulder shot from behind Aura, who studies the pump like a patient hiding the truth.

Over the shoulderZoom out

#56s

Two-shot of Aura and Marcus standing eye-to-eye: Aura with her back turned but her head tilted toward him.

Two shotSteadicam

#65s

Close-up on Aura as she looks at Marcus after his line. She blinks once and says nothing.

Close-upZoom in

#74s

Insert on the corroded valve, the dull hollow sound made visible: rust flaking away under the wrench.

InsertStatic

#87s

Wide shot holding on the empty bay after both have left, the pump still running, still dying.

WideStatic

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Scene Breakdown

From script to shoot - no spreadsheets.

Reads your screenplay and auto-extracts every cast member, prop, and production element per scene. Assign dates, link locations, hand off to your AD.

Auto-extract characters, props, and elements from the screenplay
Assign shoot dates and filming locations per scene
Expandable rows show full cast chips and element tags inline
Shot list with shot type, lens, and production notes
Daily call sheets with crew, talent, and location details

Scene breakdown

Production analysis and scheduling

3 scenes0/3 ScheduledShoot days

Assign shoot dates and locations to scenes to generate call sheets.

#	Scene	Type	Time	Shoot date	Location
1	INT. HAVEN - MAINTENANCE BAY - DAY	INT	Day	No date	No location
2	EXT. HAVEN - THE WATER TOWER - DUSK	EXT	Dusk	No date	No location
3	EXT. HAVEN - THE SOUTH GATE - NIGHT	EXT	Night	No date	No location

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Budget & Finance

Numbers that track themselves.

Category-based budget with line-item breakdown and over-budget alerts. Export a clean PDF for your line producer before day one.

Category-based budget with line-item cost breakdown
Over-budget alerts at category and line-item level
Quantity x rate calculation with unit types (day, week, flat)
Export to PDF or CSV for handoff
Cast and crew roster with role, department, and contact

09

Collaboration

Write together, not separately.

Invite writers, assign roles, and work on the same screenplay together. Threaded comments keep feedback attached to the right scene.

Invite collaborators with owner, admin, editor, or viewer roles
Threaded comments with replies and reactions per scene
Read-only viewer mode for producers and supervisors
Invitation workflow with email notifications
Role-based access - revoke or change permissions any time

Built for the whole production.

Story Development

STORY DOCUMENTS

STORY WORLD

Characters & Locations

Characters

Script Editor

Script Doctor

AI Writing Agent

Storyboard

Storyboard

Scene Breakdown

Scene breakdown

Budget & Finance

Production planning

Collaboration

Team