A DP who reads your locations. A studio executive who plans your release. Production counsel who papers your set. A crew that never sleeps — for the price of a hard drive.
Every path lands in the same studio. Pick the door you need first.
I've got a script and no crew.
Paste it. Watch it become a shot-by-shot plan any AI model can shoot — with your characters locked.
Start with the bibleI've never made a film before.
Good. That's who this was built for. Score your script free and walk the first-film path one step at a time.
Start hereMy film's shot — now what?
Key art, a release plan, a press kit with a public link, and the delivery paperwork nobody else touches.
Meet ATHENA, MUSE & PRESSI just need the business handled.
Strategy and production paperwork without the make side.
ShotBible Front Office — $79/moNo card required. · First 10 scenes free.
Every independent filmmaker knows the 2 AM version of themselves: the one being their own DP, their own producer, their own lawyer, their own marketing department — because studios get crews and you get a laptop. The camera became free. The crew never did. That's the actual gatekeeping, and it's the problem this software exists to end.
Six departments. Real work, not chat. Nothing touches your project without your approval.
Upload a photo of your location or storyboard and IRIS makes the call a seasoned DP makes on set — framing, lens, light, movement — drawing on the documented craft of cinema's greats. Then renders the shot so you can see it before you shoot it.
Feed MUSE your production stills and it designs the film's key art — grounded in your actual footage, not stock imagination. The model paints; the code typesets, so your title and billing block come out crisp and correctly spelled every time. The department that turns a finished film into something people click.
Strategy, brand, marketing, release, distribution. ATHENA analyzes your actual project and returns the plan a studio would build around it — positioning, audience, rollout, and an executive planner that turns findings into dated tasks.
THEMIS production paperwork — the full 39-agreement library, assembled to fit your production (attorney review in progress). Education and templates, not legal advice.
The half no other tool touches: caption QC that catches platform rejections, deliverables checklists, and the paperwork between your final cut and the world. Built from real distribution scar tissue.
An electronic press kit with a public link the world can visit, a press release drafted to newsroom doctrine you approve line by line, story angles, an interview kit, and a routed pitch list — direct outreach, free wires, paid wires, local press — with a campaign calendar filed straight into the Executive Planner. Every published EPK collects your audience's emails.
Studios rent every one of these. You own them for the price of a hard drive.
Real indie rates, conservative end — a DP, an entertainment attorney, a publicist all quote in these ranges. The point isn't the math. It's that a studio hires six departments for one film, and here they come standard.
The paperwork studios stop when the camera rolls. Yours doesn't — the bible keeps every character, location, and prop locked across every shot of your film.
See itAsk an AI tool for the same character twice and you get two different people — different face, different jacket, different age. ShotBible locks one description of every character, location, and prop and forces it into every shot of your film.
Slow push-in, wide: a lone gas station at night, pump 3 lit by stuttering fluorescents. Mid-30s Black man, lean controlled build, close-cropped hair, plain dark jacket sits behind the wheel, exhaust curling upward.
Static frame at dawn: mid-30s Black man, lean controlled build, close-cropped hair, plain dark jacket stands at the roof edge, first light warming his face, the city waking below.
Screenplay or documentary transcript. ShotBible finds the scenes, the beats, and the coverage — and scores your script's AI-shootability for free.
Let it pitch three visual directions from your script, or name a visual language — neo-noir, golden-hour western, handheld documentary — and shoot in that language.
One approved description and reference image per character, location, and prop. Enforced into every prompt automatically.
Copy prompts into your model, mark takes Generated → Approved, watch the film fill in. Export the whole production — or its end credits.
Demetris A. Jones is a filmmaker, writer, producer, director, editor, and colorist whose work has been distributed worldwide — features, documentaries, and television developed and delivered the independent way: small crews, real locations, no studio safety net.
ShotBible wasn't invented in a boardroom. It was built between setups — by a filmmaker who has personally been the DP call, the strategy meeting, the paperwork department, and the poster designer at 2 AM, and decided no filmmaker should have to be all of them alone. Every department in this software exists because its absence once cost a real production real money, real sleep, or a real relationship.
He teaches new filmmakers through the First Time Filmmaker Intensive, runs his ventures through The Elephant Room, and still shoots.
Built for production companies serious about what they do. Plans cover your crew's thinking. Render credits are your film stock — Studio includes 100 shot-render credits and a separate 30-credit key-art reel monthly.
Remember: $12,600 of crew. $99 a month.
Somewhere tonight a filmmaker with no crew and a finished script is deciding whether to give up. This was built so the answer is no.
Walk into the studio — free