Locations Overview

A Location in CSF is a named place in your project — with an address, description, contact info, permit details, and scene statistics. Locations are created automatically when you import a script, or you can add them by hand.

What Is a Location?

Each location record stores a name, optional address (city, state, country), latitude/longitude, a description, contact info (name, phone, email), permit details, daily rate, and notes. Locations can also have one or more AI-generated or uploaded landscape portraits used as establishing shots.

Two Ways to Create Locations

Locations appear in your project through two paths:

Auto-parsed from Script Import

When you import a Fountain screenplay, the parser extracts location names from scene headings (e.g., INT. COFFEE SHOP) and creates a location record automatically.

Manual “Add Location”

Use the + Add Location button at the top of the Locations tab to create a location from scratch with a name and optional address.

Scene Statistics

Each location tracks detailed stats from its associated scenes:

Scene count — Total number of scenes at this location
Day/Night breakdown — Page eighths split by time of day (D: X, N: X)
First appearance — The scene number where this location first appears
Predominant setting — Whether scenes are mostly INT. or EXT.
Predominant time of day — Whether scenes are mostly DAY or NIGHT

How Locations Connect to Everything

Locations sit in the pipeline between your script and your visual output:

1 Script — The Fountain screenplay you import

2 Scene Headings — Parsed INT./EXT., location name, and time of day

3 Locations — Aggregated records with stats, descriptions, and contact info

4 Portraits — AI-generated landscape establishing shots

5 Storyboards — Visual panels that reference location portraits as establishing shots

The Locations Tab

The Locations tab in your project dashboard is where you manage every filming location. Each row shows a landscape portrait thumbnail (200×112), the location name with its INT./EXT. prefix and time of day suffix, a permit badge, scene stats, description, and action buttons.