Script-to-Scene Breakdown Generator for Film Production Teams

Turning a script into a shoot-ready plan is one of the most labor-intensive steps in film and video production: someone must break every scene into camera angles, lighting setups, props, and locations, then keep all of it in sync as the script changes. Small studios and independent creators often skip the rigor entirely because they lack the staff to maintain it. The intern builds a web tool that automates the heavy lifting. Writers paste or upload a script, and a generative AI pipeline transforms it into structured scene breakdowns with suggested shots, lighting notes, prop lists, and continuity flags that the team can then edit collaboratively. The React frontend offers side-by-side script and breakdown views, a Node.js API manages projects and prompt orchestration, and MongoDB stores scripts, generated scenes, and full version history so any earlier draft can be restored. Secure authentication keeps unreleased material private, and finished breakdowns export in production-ready formats. The intern learns to design prompts that yield structured, editable output rather than free-form text, to build collaborative editing with versioning, and to ship a complete full-stack product for a real creative workflow.