Breakdown
Who can do this: Free plan on your first project, Supporter on all projects. Anyone with project access can open every page here. Tagging, retyping, renaming, and merging need breakdown edit access.Breakdown is one word in the project nav with three pages behind it. This page is the map: which page is which, and how to get around a scene once you are on it. Each job has its own page, linked below.
The Breakdown menu
Click Breakdown in the project nav to open it.
- Breakdown is the scene table: every scene with its cast, location, length, and a way in. See How to start a script breakdown.
- Elements is the breakdown by department: one list per category, and the boards behind each element. See Elements.
- Reports is the PDFs: the full breakdown, the summary, and one list per department. See Reports.
Get around a scene
A scene’s breakdown page has three columns: Scene Elements on the left, the script in the middle, and Add Element on the right. What you do there is on Tagging elements in a script breakdown. The bar across the top is how you move.
- The arrows at either end step to the previous and next scene.
- Click the scene number and heading to jump anywhere. A list of every scene opens with a search box.
- Open in Editor takes you to this scene in the script editor.
- The location name opens the location’s board. The number after it is the scene’s length in eighths of a page.
- More holds Open scene notes and View Shot List, and under Reports the scene’s Breakdown Sheet, Shot List PDF, Lined Script, and As Shot lined script.
