Locations Overview

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

The Locations Tab

The Locations tab lives under a project’s Development section. Each row shows a landscape portrait thumbnail, the location name with its INT./EXT. prefix and time-of-day suffix, a permit badge when needed, scene stats, and a one-line description. The header holds the sort toolbar, a Select button for bulk actions, and + Add Location.

The Locations view for the demo project The Last Reel, showing three location rows with thumbnails, INT. name prefixes, time-of-day suffixes, permit-required badges, scene stats, and Redescribe / Generate buttons

What Is a Location?

Each location record stores a name, an optional address (street, city, state, country), latitude/longitude, a description, contact info (name, phone, email), permit details (required flag, notes, and an uploaded permit document), availability notes, a daily rate, and free-form notes. A location can also have one or more AI-generated or uploaded landscape portraits used as establishing shots, plus scouted nearby services (grocery, hospital, gas, and custom points of interest).

Two Ways to Create Locations

Locations appear in your project through two paths:

Parsed from a Script

When you import a screenplay, CSF reads the location names out of the scene headings (for example INT. COFFEE SHOP — DAY) and creates a location record for each distinct place.

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 an optional address.

Scene Statistics

For locations tied to scenes, each row surfaces stats aggregated from those scenes:

Scene count — How many scenes take place at this location
Day / Night breakdown — Page eighths split by time of day, shown as D: and N: badges (e.g., “D: 1/8”, “N: 1 6/8”)
First appearance — The earliest scene where the location shows up, used for script-order sorting
Predominant setting — Whether scenes are mostly INT. or EXT., shown as the grey prefix on the name
Predominant time of day — Whether scenes are mostly DAY or NIGHT, shown as the grey suffix on the name

How Locations Connect to Everything

Locations sit in the pipeline between your script and the rest of production:

1Script — The screenplay you import

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

3Locations — Aggregated records with stats, descriptions, contacts, and permits

4Portraits — AI-generated or uploaded landscape establishing shots

5Call sheets & scheduling — Addresses, contacts, permits, and scouted nearby services flow into call sheets and the shoot schedule