Cineshots.AI turns film scripts into shot lists, cutting pre-production time by up to 90%. Built for CineGach Studios so Directors of Photography spend their hours on creative decisions, not prep.
Shot listing is manual, slow, and error-prone, stealing time from creative decision-making.
Lead Product Designer (0→1) partnering with the CEO and dev team to define workflows, IA, and UI.
Early-stage AI (Jan 2023), film-set realities, and a hard requirement to keep humans in the loop.
Designed a system reporting up to 90% pre-production time saved and used on productions for major streaming platforms.
A Shot List is the shooting schedule and the on-set "bible" that holds creative intent together when the plan goes sideways. DPs build them by hand: dozens of hours per script, with plenty of room for error.
What if you could skip straight to the creative part?
CineGach Studios brought me on in January 2023, when AI film tools were just emerging. Plenty of pre-production tools existed; none were built around the cinematographer's creative process.
Good preparation improves the quality of your improvisation, and filmmaking is mostly improvisation.
DPs upload a script; the AI breaks every scene into shot lists with camera movements, equipment, and efficient shooting days. Full manual control throughout.
A year, three phases, working closely with the CEO and development team.
Three months testing concepts with working DPs before any production code. Having scored films, mixed sound on set, and directed my own shorts, I knew the workflows, which let the interviews go deeper.
I led high-fidelity prototyping and worked with engineering through the shot-list editor, long-script performance, and export formats for call sheets and rental houses. The platform launched to immediate adoption and has been used on productions for SHOWTIME, Prime Video, and Tubi.
After launch we kept refining the product on data from working filmmakers, using their real productions to drive what shipped next.
The heart of Cineshots.AI is a data-dense but navigable table that gives DPs control over every shot.
Scenes group by location and time of day, shots nested under them.
Shot type, camera movement, equipment, and notes for DP and Director.
Batch-assign equipment, move days, or export whole scenes at once.
Film professionals need a lot on screen at once, so the tables are dense but scannable rather than hiding data behind clicks.
The dark theme and purple accents echo the color grading and editing tools these professionals already use daily.
AI suggestions are labeled as suggestions, never final. The reasoning is visible and everything stays editable.
The best AI tools feel like collaborators, not replacements. Testing with working DPs before we built anything let Cineshots.AI take over the tedious parts without touching creative control.