Extremely reliable pre-production
Make a shot list with Claude
that your crew can actually shoot from.
For producers: paste the script into Claude and it builds every shot as a card on a Storyflow board, then the shooting schedule, one column per day.
Creatives working for these brands already got early access
- Red Bull
- Canon
- Artlist
- Porsche
See how easy it is to get started
Watch a real project come together, from a blank board to a finished plan, clicked through step by step.
Start from a ready-made template
Pick a board to see what you can build, then let AI fill it in. Every template is a real, editable starting point on the same infinite canvas.
Pre-Production
Pull the brief, script, shot list, and moodboard into one pre-production hub so the whole shoot is planned in one place.
Can Claude make a shot list?
Yes. Claude can read a script or a treatment and turn it into a shot list, with a number, a size, a camera move and a short description for every shot, but on its own that list is text in a chat that you still have to copy somewhere your crew can use it. Storyflow is an AI visual workspace that turns a script into a shot list and a shooting schedule on one infinite canvas: a card for every shot, a checklist of the coverage each one needs, the gear for each setup and a strip board with one column per shoot day. Connected to Storyflow, Claude builds all of that on your board itself, using its own model, so it costs you no Storyflow AI credits.
Here is what Claude does well without any connection. Paste ten pages and it splits them into scenes, suggests shots for each one, names the lens and the move, and answers follow-up questions like "which of these can we cut if we lose the light". What it hands back is a table or a list in the chat. To use it on the day you paste it into a spreadsheet and send a file around, and nobody on the crew can tick anything off.
Connect Claude to Storyflow and the same request ends somewhere else. Claude builds the shot list as a row of columns on a board, one per shot, joined by arrows in shooting order. Each column holds the same five cards: a frame for the picture, a one-line subject with two to four tags for the size, the light and the camera, a "Shots required" checklist you can tick, a note of direction for the scene, and the list of gear. Then it builds the strip board: one column per shoot day, one coloured strip per scene: one colour each for interior day, exterior day, interior night and exterior night, set by Storyflow so they match on every board. Storyflow adds up each day's pages itself, so the total under "Day 1" is arithmetic, not a guess.
A worked example. A six-page branded short with nine scenes over two days. Day 1 takes the exteriors while the light lasts: scene 1 (1 2/8 pages), scene 2 (4/8), scene 5 (1 page) and scene 8 (4/8), which is 3 2/8 pages. Day 2 takes the interiors: scene 3 (6/8), scene 4 (1 page), scene 6 (4/8), scene 7 (2/8) and scene 9 (2/8), which is 2 6/8 pages. The two days add up to the full six pages. At about twelve setups a day, that is 24 shot cards, each with its coverage list.
Every shot on a list your crew can use carries the same fields, whoever writes it: the shot number, the scene it belongs to, the size (wide, medium, close up), the camera move, the lens, what is in frame and what happens, the coverage you need from that setup, and the gear it takes. Claude fills these from the script. You check them, because Claude cannot know that the location has no power or that the actor arrives at noon.
The frames start empty, because Storyflow does not make pictures over the connector. Drop your own stills or location photos into them, or put your reference pictures on the board first and ask Claude to use them, and it moves each one into its shot as the frame. The same connector works with ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok, so a producer who plans in ChatGPT and a director who prefers Claude build on the same board.
Ultra fast from brief to board
From script to shot cards in four moves.
About ten minutes the first time, most of it spent reading what Claude built.
01
Connect Claude to Storyflow once
In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors, click Add, then Add custom connector. Name it Storyflow, paste https://mcp.storyflow.so/mcp, click Continue, choose Sign in now and click Add. Sign in to Storyflow and pick the project for this shoot.
02
Give Claude the script and the shoot
Paste the script or treatment into the chat and say what you are shooting: how many days, the camera, which scenes are exteriors. Ask for a shot list on the board for that project, in shooting order. For example: "Two days, Sony FX3, exteriors on Day 1. Build the shot list on the Coast Film board."
03
Read the shot cards it builds
A column appears for every shot, with its frame, tags, coverage checklist, direction and gear, joined by arrows in order. Change a lens or cut a shot by hand, or tell Claude what to change.
04
Ask for the strip board and share it
Ask Claude for the shooting schedule. It lays the scenes out one column per day with a colour for each mix of interior, exterior, day and night, and Storyflow adds up each day's pages. Invite the crew to the board.
The shots, the coverage, the gear and the days.
Claude writes the plan. Storyflow holds it where the crew can see it, tick it and change it.
One column per shot
Shot cards built in one go
Every shot gets a frame, a subject line with tags for size, light and camera, a tickable list of the coverage you need, a direction note and the gear. Arrows join them in shooting order, so the board reads left to right like the day.
See the shot list template →
One column per day
A strip board colour-coded for you
Each scene becomes a strip with its number, heading, page count and cast, coloured by interior or exterior and day or night, the same way on every board. Each day's pages are added up for you at the top of its column.
See the stripboard page →
Scene by scene
Long shoots split into scene rows
For a commercial or a short with several locations, ask Claude for one row of shots per scene. Each row gets its own title above it, so the location manager reads one row and the camera team another.
See the shot list software page →
Any assistant
One address for Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok
Storyflow's MCP server is one web address. Add it to Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok or Claude Code, sign in, and pick the projects each one may use. They all build on the same boards.
See how to connect your assistant →Claude does the work. Your Storyflow plan does not pay for it.
Claude runs on its own model, so building shot cards over the connector uses no Storyflow AI credits. A free account (today, one invited by a paid member) gets 50 actions a week from its assistant, and Plus, Pro and Max have no limit. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $7.99 a month billed annually ($9.99 monthly). A free plan launches before the end of 2026, and anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free.
No Storyflow AI credits spent on anything Claude builds
No limit on connector actions on Plus, Pro and Max
Invite your director of photography and first AD to the board free
Shot cards and strip board on the same board as the script and references
Pick which projects Claude may see, and whether it may change them
Built for people with taste
Where a shot list from a chat falls apart.
Claude writes good shots. The trouble starts when the list leaves the chat.
The copy and paste
A table in a chat is not a plan
It lands where you work: The shot cards are built on the project's board, not handed back as text. There is no spreadsheet to paste into and no formatting to fix before the crew sees it.
Changes do not mean starting over: Cut a shot by hand, or ask Claude to change the lens on shot 14. It edits the card that is already there instead of writing a new list.
The checklist is tickable: Each shot's coverage is a checklist on its own card. The script supervisor ticks the close-ups as they are done, and everyone sees the same ticks.
Sixty shots, one request: Claude sends the whole list in one call, up to 60 shots, so a long list does not stop half way at shot twelve.
The schedule
Pages added up by hand at midnight
Day totals are counted, not guessed: Claude says which scenes go on which day. Storyflow adds up the pages and eighths for each day itself, which is the sum a model most often gets wrong.
Colours that mean something: The strip colours follow the industry code and are set by Storyflow, not chosen by Claude. An exterior day strip is the same colour on every board.
Continuous scenes keep their time: Storyflow tells Claude that a scene marked CONTINUOUS takes the time of day of the scene before it, so a night scene that runs on is not filed as day.
Move a day by asking: Lost a location? Ask Claude to rebuild the schedule with scene 5 on Day 2. The new strip board lands beside the old one, so you can compare them before you choose.
The crew
Nobody can see the list but you
One board, one link: The director, the DP and the first AD open the same board. Anyone you share a view-only link with can read it in a browser without an account.
Each person can use their own assistant: Your director plans in Claude, your producer in ChatGPT. Both connect to the same Storyflow project and see what the other built.
Ask what changed: Ask Claude what changed on the shoot board this week and who changed it. It reads the board's history and tells you, card by card.
Frames from your own pictures: Put your location stills on the board and ask Claude to use them. It moves each picture into its shot as the frame instead of leaving an empty box.
Explore templates for your project
Every template opens as a real, editable board on the infinite canvas. Pick the closest fit and make it your own.
Pre-Production
Pull the brief, script, shot list, and moodboard into one pre-production hub so the whole shoot is planned in one place.
One app instead of five
Where Storyflow fits in a shot list made with Claude.
It holds the plan Claude builds. It does not replace your scheduling software or work offline.
Storyflow with Claude
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Script to shot list from one message
Each shot as a card with coverage and gear
Strip board colour-coded by scene type
Pages per day added up for you
Crew ticks off coverage on the day
Editable by the crew after the chat ends
Sort and filter shots by lens or location
Works with no internet on set
Claude on its own
Script to shot list from one message
Each shot as a card with coverage and gear
Strip board colour-coded by scene type
Pages per day added up for you
Crew ticks off coverage on the day
Editable by the crew after the chat ends
Sort and filter shots by lens or location
Works with no internet on set
A spreadsheet
Script to shot list from one message
Each shot as a card with coverage and gear
Strip board colour-coded by scene type
Pages per day added up for you
Crew ticks off coverage on the day
Editable by the crew after the chat ends
Sort and filter shots by lens or location
Works with no internet on set
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“One prompt gets me a structured board. But the tactics are my favorite. I run my YouTube scripts through them and my intros and retention got better. It's amazing.”
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“I used to juggle five apps to plan a project. Now I describe what I am making and get boards, lists, and a schedule. All in one place.”
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Shot lists with Claude: questions
What producers ask before they let Claude near the shoot.
In Storyflow, yes, and it lands on a board instead of in the chat. Connect Claude to Storyflow, paste the script, and ask for a shot list. Claude builds a column per shot with a frame, tags for size, light and camera, a coverage checklist, a direction note and the gear, joined in shooting order. Ask again and it builds the strip board, one column per shoot day.
Storyflow is built for exactly this job: your assistant reads the script and builds every shot as a card with its coverage and gear, then a strip board with each day's pages added up, all on one board the crew shares. It works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini and Grok. Final Draft still holds the script, and Movie Magic Scheduling still produces the day-out-of-days report.
Break the script into scenes, then list every shot per scene with its number, size, camera move, lens, what is in frame, the coverage you need and the gear. Order the shots by setup, not by script order, so the camera moves as little as possible. In Storyflow, Claude does this first pass from the pasted script and you correct it on the board.
Without a connector Claude still reads your script and writes a good shot list, as a table or a list in the chat. It cannot put that list anywhere. You copy it into a spreadsheet or a doc, and every change means asking again and pasting again. Connected to Storyflow, the same list is built as cards on your board.
In Claude, open Customize, then Connectors. Click Add, then Add custom connector. Name it Storyflow, paste https://mcp.storyflow.so/mcp and click Continue. Choose Sign in now, click Add, then sign in to Storyflow and pick the projects Claude may use. Claude's Free plan allows one custom connector. In Claude Code, run claude mcp add --transport http storyflow https://mcp.storyflow.so/mcp, then /mcp.
Paste the script or attach it in Claude, and Claude reads it in the chat. The attachment itself does not reach Storyflow. If the PDF is already on your Storyflow board, Claude can read it from there, along with Word files, spreadsheets and CSVs. Long files come back cut short, so for a feature, give Claude the scenes in batches.
A strip board is the shooting schedule: one strip per scene, grouped by shoot day. In Storyflow, Claude builds it in one go, one column per day, each strip showing the scene number, heading, pages and cast. Storyflow sets the strip colours and adds up each day's pages and eighths, so the totals do not depend on Claude's arithmetic.
No. Storyflow does not make pictures over the connector, so each shot's frame starts empty. Drop in your own stills, or put your reference pictures on the board first and ask Claude to use them as frames. If Claude can search the web, it can also add reference pictures, and Storyflow keeps its own copy.
No. Claude runs on its own model, so what it builds over the connector uses no Storyflow AI credits. A free Storyflow account (today, one invited by a paid member) gets 50 actions a week from its assistant, and every read and every change counts as one. The count resets every Monday (UTC). Plus, Pro and Max have no limit.
Yes. Storyflow's MCP server is one address, https://mcp.storyflow.so/mcp. ChatGPT needs Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise or Edu, on the web; on Business and Enterprise an admin turns on developer mode. Gemini's custom apps need a personal Google account with Keep Activity on, in the US, for people 18 or over, in English. On Grok Business and Enterprise, a team admin adds it in the xAI console first. Each one builds the same shot cards and strip board.
Yes. The shot list is ordinary cards on a Storyflow board, so it stays there after the chat ends. Invite the crew to the board, and anyone a paid member invites joins free. A view-only link opens in any browser without an account, for the people who only need to read it.
Only what you allow. When you sign in, Storyflow asks which projects Claude may use and whether it may make changes. Without changes it can only read. With changes allowed it can add and edit cards, schedules and documents in those projects. Every connection ends after 30 days and Claude asks you to sign in again.
No. Storyflow runs in the browser, with no native apps to install. Claude connects to it from your Claude account with one web address, and your crew opens the board in any browser on set or at home.
More from Storyflow
Hand Claude the script. Hand the crew the board.
Shot cards, coverage, gear and a strip board, built in one conversation and kept in one place.