Shotwright

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Drop your references, frames, and notes onto one canvas and then turn it into the brief, storyboard, and shot list your crew needs. No more documents scattered across Drive, Notion, and email threads.

Concept
the last night of the rialto. two rooms: the house downstairs saying goodbye, sal up in the booth threading the last reel like he has since ’94. no narration. end on the beam cutting out.
Tone
observational, unhurried. only the light that’s already on. no score until the house lights come up.
Format
12 to 15 min doc short. single camera, available light, sync sound. plus a :90 cutdown for the preservation fund.
✦ Creative Brief
Closing Time
On the last night the Rialto’s projector will ever run, the man who has threaded every reel for thirty-one years plays one final show to the neighborhood that grew up in its seats.
Concept
The last night of the Rialto. Two rooms: the house downstairs saying goodbye, Sal in the booth threading the last reel. We end on the beam cutting out.
Tone
Observational. Only the light that’s already on.
Format
12–15 min doc. Single camera, available light.

A visual workspace for thinking in pictures.

References, notes, and script pages live on one canvas, the single source of truth for the whole project.

Undertow — music video
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▣ Look · water · 7
Track · 3:20
Note · Concept

Creative brief, storyboard, shot list all drafted from your canvas.

Wire your nodes as inputs to a brief, a storyboard, or a shot list node, and Shotwright assembles it for you. Edit it then share it.

Creative Brief
Closing Time
On the last night the Rialto’s projector will ever run, the man who has threaded every reel for thirty-one years plays one final show to the neighborhood that grew up in its seats.
Concept

We spend the final night inside a single-screen cinema, the week before the wrecking permit clears. The marquee still works. The carpet does not. We are there from the afternoon load-in to the moment the booth goes dark.

The film lives in two rooms. Downstairs, the house fills with people who had first dates here, who saw Jaws here, who bring their kids to a place that will not exist on Monday. Upstairs in the booth, Sal threads the last reel the way he has threaded every reel since 1994, by hand, by feel, not looking down.

There is no narration. The building does the talking: the rattle of the platter, the warm dust in the beam, the sound a thousand seats make when they tip up at once. We end on the beam cutting out, and the ordinary work-light coming up on an empty house.

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MayaToday, 4:12 PM
We’re thin on the chorus break. Only the wide. Can we get a CU on her face as she surfaces?
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YouToday, 4:12 PM
Pulling a reference now, adding a CU to the list.
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▣ Location · scout
The alley, golden hour. Power on the south wall.
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