Starting a Project on Mooiev: From Script to Shoot

How to create a production — solo, brand content, commercial or film & series — and what every stage gives you: script, shots, storyboards, breakdown, schedule, call sheets, gear and budget.

Pick your workflow

A new project starts by choosing what kind of production it is: Solo creator, Brand & content, Commercial shoot, or Film & series. The choice decides which tools appear — a solo shoot doesn’t need call sheets; a film leads with the script — and you can change it later. Film & series adds a format step (short, feature or series); picking Series creates Episode 1 and an episodes screen, where new episodes can copy selected modules — script, shots, characters, schedule — from an existing one.

Project details

Cover image, project name, client and contact details
Shoot date and time — optional on purpose: multi-day productions add days in the Schedule instead
Edit deadline, delivery and post dates, location, price and currency, notes

Write or import your script

A professional screenplay editor: scene/action/character/dialogue auto-formatting, Tab to switch element types, a slash menu, and autocomplete for known characters
Import an existing script (.fountain, .txt, .md) — title pages, section headers and page breaks are recognized
A docked scene navigator lists every scene; click to jump
Sync the script to Characters & Locations with a preview — you approve exactly what gets imported
The Deliver menu exports a script PDF, per-actor character sides, and a no-AI scene breakdown

Build the shot list

From script: AI reads every scene and suggests shots — size, angle, movement, description, cast. You review and keep only what you want; each scene becomes a Sequence
A quality check runs first and warns if the script needs work — with "continue anyway" always available
From video: upload footage and AI splits it into a shot list
By hand: one unified shot form — scene/shot numbers kept unique, camera settings, movement, notes, a reference photo, cast and location links
Search, filter, sort and bulk-select; sequences display as clapperboard cards

Storyboards

Generate an AI storyboard frame for one shot or many at once, in one of eight visual styles. The Storyboard view lays the whole film out in order, grouped by sequence with estimated runtimes, and a full-screen Present mode plays it through for pitches. Generation uses your plan’s AI quota.

Characters, locations & breakdown

Characters & Locations: add people and places, generate script-aware AI reference portraits or upload your own; bulk generation keeps running server-side even if you leave the page
Breakdown: cast per scene plus eleven production-element categories (props, wardrobe, vehicles, SFX, stunts…)
"Fill from script" suggests elements scene by scene — nothing is written until you approve each one

Schedule, DOOD & call sheets

Add shoot days and organize scenes as colored strips (INT/EXT × day/night), moved by click — no fragile drag-and-drop
Each day takes its own location and shows an automatic weather forecast with sunrise and sunset
The Day Out of Days matrix tracks every cast member’s Start/Work/Hold/Finish days with hold counts — printable
Call sheets build from a shooting day: location with a maps link, nearest hospital, weather, scene list and per-person call times
Email the call sheet to everyone and track each recipient: sent, viewed, confirmed — and refresh it from the schedule when the day changes

Gear & budget

Gear: a per-project checklist grouped by category with packed checkboxes and progress, fed from your master inventory
Budget: line items by category with estimated vs. actual and variance (commercial and film projects)

Documents & sharing

Treatment/Lookbook and Proposal documents assemble themselves from the project’s real data — cover, cast portraits, framed shots, budget
Every document can become a public web link (mooiev.com/d/…) that opens without a login, plus PDF
Commercial projects can share a client-facing shoot sheet link with prep notes and contacts

Stay on track

The Overview shows one "do this next" step based on where the project actually stands. An Activity feed logs what changed, every shot has its own discussion thread, and deletes are reversible — an Undo appears immediately, and archived items sit in Trash until you restore them.

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