Plan the shoot before you pay for it.

AI pre-production tools handle the planning work that normally happens before a single frame is shot or generated, developing the story, getting script coverage, building a storyboard, and pricing the production. Spark Station's pipeline connects all four: Story Builder for story development, Script Doctor for script coverage, Storyboard Builder for shot planning, and Budget Estimator for cost estimation.

Script coverage is the craft analysis a script reader or story analyst normally provides, a quality score, structural notes, character and pacing feedback, and production considerations. Spark Station's Script Doctor automates this: a weighted, evidence-cited score across structure, pacing, originality, character depth, dialogue and theme, plus a setup/payoff ledger, character arc integrity with a relationship map, audience retention and cliffhanger analysis, and a production footprint report.

Yes. Storyboard Builder takes a story, script, synopsis or concept and breaks it down into a shot list, picking up the characters and locations as it goes. You choose a look and draw one style frame first; every character sheet and panel is drawn with that frame attached, so the board holds together. Each panel can be redrawn on its own, and the finished board exports as a PDF, PNG pages or a CSV shot list.

Yes. Budget Estimator takes the project (a film, an ad, a series or a micro drama, its length, languages and quality level), or reads the script, and walks the whole production line by line, from pre-production through generation, post, distribution and the people involved, with a contingency. It counts the takes a usable shot really needs, since AI rarely nails a shot on the first attempt, prices every line in your currency, and lets you adjust any number, save versions and export the estimate as CSV, Word or PDF.

They follow the same story from end to end. Story Builder's production pack names the cast, locations, props, wardrobe and scenes, with the look: palette, lighting and camera. Script Doctor's Production Footprint lists the locations, scene types and production-heavy needs worth locking before the next draft. Storyboard Builder plans every scene from the story or script. And Budget Estimator reads the script to price what it actually needs. It's one pipeline, not four separate tools that happen to sit near each other.

No. You can start from nothing but a brief in Story Builder and take it to a full draft, or bring an existing script straight into Script Doctor, Storyboard Builder or Budget Estimator. Each tool accepts a synopsis, a script, or a short brief, depending on how far along the project already is.

Two dozen forms: for the screen a short film, a feature screenplay, a TV episode or pilot, a series bible, a microdrama series and a vertical short; documentary, advertising and music-video forms; art and experimental films; prose from flash fiction to a novel; and stage plays, audio drama and comic scripts. Each has structures that fit it, from three acts to two halves around an interval to forms with no incident at all, and the story and its dialogue can be in the language you choose.

It estimates the interior/exterior split, the dialogue/action/mixed scene-type balance, the number of distinct locations, and flags production-heavy needs like stunt choreography, pyrotechnics or VFX-dependent sequences, all decisions worth locking before the next draft, because they decide what the production will cost.