Coverage and notes
First-pass coverage, summaries and notes on scripts and books, for a person to read and judge.
AI for film and creative production: more room for the work only you can do.
Our AI practice began inside ANVL Entertainment, our film and television company, where we built and tested tools against real production and development work. We help producers, writers and studios use AI for the slow parts, while people make the creative calls.
Where AI can help a production.
Start with the work that takes time but not your best judgment.
Pitch materials
Drafts of loglines, synopses, treatments and decks from your own material, ready for your edit.
Planning
First drafts of breakdowns, schedules, budgets and shot lists to check against the real constraints.
Visual development
Mood frames and concept images to explore a look before anyone commits to it.
Your material, your calls.
These come before any materials go near an AI tool.
Start high level
The first conversation works from a description of the project. You don’t need to share any materials to begin.
Know each tool’s terms
Tools differ on whether your material can be used for training, how long it is kept and who owns what comes out. Those terms are part of choosing the tool.
Your material stays yours
What you share stays confidential. What we create for you belongs to you.
People make the creative calls
AI can prepare options and drafts. Writers, directors and producers decide what the work becomes.
One example, on paper.
A fictional producer is developing a feature from a novel. This is the shape of what we would agree.
Coverage, prepared
First-pass coverage of a novel and two script drafts, for the producer to read alongside her own notes.
- Story summary and structure
- Character notes
- What changed between drafts
- Questions for the writer
The pitch, drafted
Drafts for the producer’s edit, from her own notes and the source.
- Logline options
- One-page synopsis
- Treatment outline
- Comparable titles to check
What stays with people
The creative and commercial calls.
- What the story is about
- Who it is for
- Every word that goes out
- Every rights and deal question
Folio is coming soon.
Folio, our plugin for entertainment development, is coming soon.
It comes from the same work: loglines, synopses, treatments, beat sheets, script drafts and shot lists, prepared for a person to shape.
Bring the project you’re developing.
Signal Triage is a prepared 45-minute working session on Zoom for $375. A description of the project is enough to start.