cinemasetfreeScenes and the scene heading
A scene record holds everything the schedule and the breakdown need, down to its page count in eighths. Its heading, INT. COFFEE SHOP - NIGHT, is also the context every AI feature reads.
Where scenes come from
Script import
The usual way. Each scene heading becomes a scene with its setting, location, time of day, page count and cast already filled in.
Manual add
+ Add Scene for things not in the script: pickups, inserts, supplementary establishing shots. A number is all that’s required.
The heading is load-bearing
Setting, location and time of day combine into the scene heading, and that heading is what gets fed to the AI as context whenever it describes a scene or generates its establishing shot. A scene with a vague heading generates a vague image.
Page count in eighths is the other field that does more than it appears to: it is how the schedule estimates a shoot day’s length and how the call sheet reports the day’s page total. Import fills it in from the script’s actual page geometry.
What links to a scene
Characters appear as coloured pills, created by the import from dialogue cues and editable by hand. Wardrobe is assigned per character per scene, which is how a costume change mid-film is expressed. Props are tagged from the breakdown or the import. Shots and storyboard panels belong to a scene. And the stripboard is these scenes, reordered into shoot days.