BREAKDOWN

BREAKDOWN

For Art Department HODs

Days of data entry saved for the thinking and nuancing that matter.

Upload a screenplay and BREAKDOWN reads it scene by scene, thinking the way an art department HOD does. It captures not just the elements the script spells out, but the ones implied in the subtext — the way good art department professionals do. You maintain full approval and control of every suggestion. You get a scene breakdown, a department-by-department requirements list, a customisable set register you shape into your own line items, and an estimate sheet you price yourself. You never lose your ability to edit and customise.

Open workspaceSee what it produces

Written for the art department, not for everyone

It knows a wall-mounted television is set decoration, not a prop; that a bathroom scene with a bathtub that floods is a set build; that a bedroom in Paris needs different door furniture and light switches to your New York bedroom scene. It reads a complex fight scene and sees a set build. A worn, mouldy window frame? It calls out custom scenic work on location. Where other engines simply tag what's written in the big print, this one thinks like you. Anything the script spells out is shown in black; anything BREAKDOWN has inferred is shown in blue. You remain the final authority — nothing is decided behind your back.

  1. 1
    Upload
    A screenplay as a PDF, or from Final Draft, Fountain, Word or plain text.
  2. 2
    Read
    Scenes and sluglines parsed, then analysed for art department requirements.
  3. 3
    Shape
    Review scenes, then fold sets into the line items you want to cost.
  4. 4
    Price
    Enter labour, materials and other against each line and total it up.

What it produces

One screenplay, four ways of reading it.

Every table lets you turn any column on or off — hide what you don't need for the moment and never lose the information underneath.

Traditional View

Every scene, its slugline and a short story summary, with the art department elements found in it.

Scene by scene, as the script reads.

Vertical View

The same elements sorted vertically into set-by-set lists — Construction / Scenic, Props, Set Decoration, Graphics, Greens, SFX, Vehicles, Armoury, Prosthetics and Livestock.

One column per department.

Create Set Registry / Line Items

Parent sets and the subsets they include. Fold subsets together into parent set line items you want to cost.

You decide the shape of the line items.

Estimate View

One costing line per parent set, with labour, materials and other typed in by you, and totals rolled up. Choose whether you see summaries and any other column. Export it as your preferred file type.

Your figures, never guessed.

Scripts, copyright and privacy

Screenplays under NDA deserve a plain answer rather than a slogan. Here is exactly how BREAKDOWN handles a script — and what it does not claim.

Never used for training

Uploaded screenplays are never used to train or fine-tune any model, ours or anyone else's, and nothing is learned from one production and carried into another.

Read in sections

Analysis is done on scene-level sections of the script rather than by handing over the whole screenplay at once.

Kept to your account

Each project belongs to the account that created it, and screenplay content is kept out of usage statistics and diagnostic logs.

Two retention modes

In Project Script Mode — the default — the uploaded screenplay stays until you delete it. In Strict Ephemeral mode it is deleted as soon as the breakdown is complete, leaving only the breakdown itself. You can delete the original file at any time without losing your breakdown.