AI Filmmaking Tools — Free Shot Lists & Prompts
Twenty-five tools for planning, writing and checking an AI film. Scene breakdowns, coverage, blocking, continuity checks and more — most free, no account.
Plan the scene
Before you generate anything
- Scene Breakdown — A numbered shot list, with a full prompt for every shot. Size, camera move, lighting and duration for each shot. Character and location descriptions are locked and repeated word for word, which is what keeps them recognizable from cut to cut.
- Coverage Planner — The setups an editor needs — and what's missing. Master, singles, over-the-shoulders, reactions and inserts, ranked by how essential each is. The most useful part is the gaps, and the editorial problem each one creates.
- Performance & Blocking — Staging, performance direction, and delivery notes. Where people stand and move relative to camera, and how each line lands. Your dialogue comes back exactly as you wrote it — nothing is rewritten.
- Rehearsal Studio — The scene played through, from every camera. Drag performers and cameras across a timeline and watch animated performers walk their marks. Compare angles on an identical performance, with shot size, lens, eyelines and the 180° line updating live.
Design each shot
Getting one shot right
- Shot Director — Three genuinely different ways to shoot it. Each approach comes with a shot size, lens, move, lighting, blocking, a full prompt, and the craft reasoning for why it works.
- Frame Planner — Its opening and closing frames, and the move between. Two frame descriptions with an image prompt for each, and a note on what must stay identical for the shot to read as continuous.
- Prompt Builder — A prompt in real cinematography language. Six cinematic style presets and a strength control, with the craft language it applies shown rather than hidden. Attach a reference still and it writes the shot from what it sees.
- Which Model? — Ranked models, real costs, and what's likely to break. A real duration and credit cost for each model, an honest trade-off, and a difficulty score — before you spend anything.
- Prompt Library — Copy-ready prompts across genres and models. Director-grade prompts organized by model and genre, including a continuity set with notes on what makes each one hold together.
Keep it consistent
The same film from shot to shot
- Continuity Check — Drift and crossed 180° lines, quoted exactly. A script supervisor's read: characters described two ways, wardrobe that drifts, unmotivated lighting, reverse angles that break screen direction. It flags and quotes — it never rewrites.
- Script Supervisor — Every contradiction across the project, including the story. Reads the whole project at once: a shot starting where the last one didn't end, a declared change no later shot shows, an unresolved flaw in a take you're using. Then, on request, a story read — a character acting on something they haven't learned yet, time moving the wrong way.
Make and fix
Generating, and recovering when it goes wrong
- Recording Studio — The scene read aloud in your characters' voices. Set a voice on a character in the Vault and it is used every time they speak, so they sound like themselves from scene to scene. Up to four voices in one read, and the turn order is the order you wrote. One credit per thousand characters.
- Generation Autopsy — Why it failed, and a revised prompt. Causes ranked by confidence, with the offending wording quoted, and a revised prompt built to hold.
Be in it yourself
You, on screen, from one photo
- Cast Yourself — A locked character that is still you in every scene afterwards. A photo becomes a character sheet that never changes — the thing that keeps you looking like yourself shot after shot. Draw it as a cartoon, comic, anime or claymation set; put it in a scene with a genre and a beat; send a link and have friends join the same shot with their own faces, or with a character they already have. Several angles from your phone, or from the booth on the lot, make it hold up when the camera moves. No account needed to start.
- Animate Yourself — A set of drawings that are recognizably the same person. Cel-shade, comic halftone, Sunday funnies, stop-motion clay, watercolor wash or pencil rough — a set of poses in the medium you pick, all of them you. The same locked character a scene would use, so a drawing and a film are the same person. Four free without an account, eight with one.
- Memory Cinema — A short film of a day you actually had. Write what happened, drop in photos from it, and film it as the genre you choose. The photos are read for where and when, never for faces. A day stays a draft until you ask for it — nothing renders overnight and nothing is charged until you tap. Other people appear only if they built their own character and handed you a pass for it, which they can withdraw whenever they like.
RevaultAI — a curated gallery for AI-generated film.
Blocking a scene is free and needs no account. Credits are only spent when you generate actual video, and the price is shown before you confirm it. There is no subscription.
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