From a messy doc to a shoot you can run.
Every part of pre-production, built from the one thing you already have: your notes. The weeks this used to take are now an afternoon. Here’s everything Fieldnotes does between “I have an idea” and “we’re rolling.”
- 01Upload
- 02Outline
- 03Review
- 04Characters
- 05Storyboards
- 06Schedule
- 07Crew
- 08Export
Eight steps, start to finish in an afternoon. Move back and forth anytime. Nothing generates until you say so, and nothing paid runs before you confirm.
Bring anything in
Drop in whatever you keep your notes in. Fieldnotes reads it and works out what it's looking at.
- Treatments, outlines, docs, PDFs
- Photos of handwritten notes
- Voice memos and reference films
One clean outline
Everything you dropped in becomes a single outline: title, logline, sequences, beats.
- The document everything builds from
- Story suggestions and gap-spotting
- Edit every beat by hand
Scene breakdown
Locations, characters, and sequences pulled out for you, with anything uncertain flagged to review.
- Locations and characters, extracted
- Uncertain items flagged
- Fix inline in seconds
Character likeness
Upload a photo of each subject and the same real face shows up in every frame you generate.
- Lead plus supporting characters
- A few photos for the lead
- A tasteful stand-in until you add one
Storyboards
Coverage planned per scene and rendered with your characters, in any aspect ratio you want to preview.
- Masters, coverage, inserts
- Sketch drafts or photoreal finals
- Re-roll or adjust any frame
Shooting schedule
Your scenes become a stripboard, sorted into days by location and light, ready to rearrange.
- Stripboard and calendar views
- Drag strips between days
- Lunch, company moves, the boneyard
Crew
Add your people and their roles. Everyone you add lands in the pre-pro book automatically.
- Roles and contacts in one place
- Shows up in the book
- Ready to share on day one
The pre-pro book
Everything above, gathered into one designed book you send as a link or save as a PDF.
- Chaptered book or long scroll
- Public link or private to crew
- Export to PDF
The area guide
Real local intel for the shoot region, researched fresh so your crew knows before they land.
- Weather and light windows
- Nearest hospital and safety notes
- Where the crew eats and unwinds
Storyboards with your actual characters in them.
Fieldnotes plans coverage for each scene like a director would, masters, coverage, inserts, then renders every frame with the real faces you uploaded. Preview any aspect ratio, re-roll a frame you don't love, adjust one in plain English, and finalize your heroes into photoreal stills.
- Coverage planned per scene
- Consistent character likeness
- Adjust with a sentence
- Sketch fast, finalize the keepers
One link holds the whole shoot.
Everything you build becomes a pre-pro book: outline, characters, storyboards, the stripboard, crew contacts, and a location guide with the weather, the nearest ER, and where the crew eats. Read it as a chaptered book or one long scroll, flip it public or keep it private, and save it as a PDF.
- Chaptered book or long scroll
- Public link or private to crew
- Area guide, weather & safety
- Export to PDF
See it turn your mess into a plan.
Fieldnotes is in private beta while we onboard the first productions. Get on the list and we’ll bring you in.