The Toolkit

Tools for making things.

The rest of the site teaches you to read films. This shelf is for making them — small, fast tools that do one job well and get out of your way. No accounts, no installs. Laid out the way a real production runs: development → pre-production → production → post-production → distribution.

01 Development Find the idea. Explore intentions, story and audience before anything gets planned.

💡 Find your idea The Lightbox A mood-board canvas that thinks with you. Start with a film you love, pick the frame that feels like it, name what grabs you — pin it to the wall, drag it around, string connected films together. Your taste becomes a board and an idea brief, exported as one image. Start a board →

02 Pre-production Design the production. Scripts, storyboards, shot lists — the plan that makes shoot day work.

✍ Write together Scriptpad Proper screenplay format with zero setup. Start a script, share the 5-letter room code with your crew, and write together live — scene headings, action, dialogue, the lot. Print to PDF or download a .fountain file when it’s done. Open the writers’ room →

🔧 On the bench Shot-list builder

🔧 On the bench Storyboard pad

03 Production Shoot it. Cameras rolling, sound rolling — capture the plan.

🔧 On the bench Digital slate & take logger

04 Post-production Cut it together. Edit, grade, mix — refine until it says what you meant.

🔧 On the bench Paper-edit planner

🔧 On the bench Title-card maker

05 Distribution Get it seen. Posters, premieres, audiences.

🔧 On the bench One-sheet poster maker

Tools get built when a class needs them — tell your teacher what’s missing.