I got this in the mail. I'm not sure how this is any better than simply using ChatGPT.  Anyone want to explore this?

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The message:

Hi Team at SimplyScripts,

I’m Arseniy, founder of Blooper.ai ( http://blooper.ai/ ) — a tool that turns screenplays into compelling visual previews, storyboards, and even pitch decks in minutes. We’re currently working with teams at Miroma, Mubi, BBC Studios, and others in the creative production space.

I’m reaching out because I think there’s a natural synergy between SimplyScripts and Blooper. Writers using your site could benefit from instantly visualizing their scripts — whether to pitch, improve structure, or just see how their stories come to life. We believe this could significantly boost engagement, retention, and overall user satisfaction on your platform.

Our proposal:
We’d love to explore a lightweight integration where Blooper can be offered as a “Visualize this script� feature directly on your site. It’s a value-add for your users and a distribution opportunity for us — a win-win. Additionally, we are open to discussing revenue sharing so that both parties can benefit financially from the integration.

We’re happy to provide a walkthrough, demo, or even a free trial for your team.

Thanks and looking forward to hearing from you!

Best,
Arseniy Seroka
CEO @ Blooper
https://www.linkedin.com/in/seroka/

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If you are interested in exploring this and doing a blog/discussion board post on blooper.ai as a "SimplyScripts Editor," please do.

- Don

Quoted Text We’re currently working with teams at Miroma, Mubi, BBC Studios, and others in the creative production space.

Uh huh.

Just another Hollywood wannabe hoping to finance his dreams by scamming other Hollywood wannabes.

The only people pushing pitch decks as a necessary thing are the people who sell pitch deck-related "services".

Their website is nice and clean, but their pricing model is a little on the steep side

1) Free forever - for scripts 3 pages and under, with additional limits too.
2) Free month trial - then $49 a month

I think for most people $49 per month is just unnecessary, how may pitch decks are ever gonna be asked for by producers that would justify this?!?

I suspect that underneath their service they are likely using OpenAI or something similar, so maybe using ChatGPT would return similar results.

BUT is there any harm discussing with them trialing the 'Visualise' feature they mentioned?

At least it's not one of those services suggesting it will write your script for you!

$49 per month! Wow that is steep.  btw, I have the CEO's email address if anyone would like to reach out to him directly.  Also, I let him know we are discussing his product on the site.  

I would be curious to see the difference between blooper and just using OpenAI or ChatGPT.

- Don

Wouldn't be for me, But I am old enough to take a moral stand (just a way of saying that as a young writer I would be all over everthing AI but as an old fok I can afford to moralize about its use). With that caveat.....

As writers continue to experiment with AI to market or generate films without filmmakers,...

Filmmakers continue to experiment with AI to write films without writers.

I think in the Cold War days, they would call this mutually assured destruction.

So, if you are going to put graphic artists, editors, photpgraphers, singers, lyricists, musicians out of work by not paying artists to create things like pitch decks and sizzle reels for you, you have not moral standing in objecting to a Director using AI to generate a script to film rather than paying a writer.

Quoted from eldave1 So, if you are going to put graphic artists, editors, photpgraphers, singers, lyricists, musicians out of work by not paying artists to create things like pitch decks and sizzle reels for you, you have not moral standing in objecting to a Director using AI to generate a script to film rather than paying a writer.

This reminds me of a thread here many many years ago where a writer basically called all of us who paid for Final Draft or the like stupid when it's so easy to get free pirated copies online. Then those same people who agreed with her went totally batshit crazy whenever someone used one of their scripts without permission.

Quoted from Grandma Bear This reminds me of a thread here many many years ago where a writer basically called all of us who paid for Final Draft or the like stupid when it's so easy to get free pirated copies online. Then those same people who agreed with her went totally batshit crazy whenever someone used one of their scripts without permission.

Good analogy.

Okay, so I have ChatGPT Pro, approx $20 a month.

I asked it to create a Prompt (yes you can get it to prompt itself), to take one of my scripts for storyboarding.

This is the prompt it came up with (I asked it to be in Wes Anderson style)...

PROJECT TITLE: “Droning On�
TARGET STYLE: Live action
VISUAL REFERENCES “Wes Anderson palette�
  
TASK:  
1. Read the FULL SCRIPT attached.  
2. Break it into sequential SHOTS. Each shot ≈ 3–15 seconds of screen time.  
3. For every shot, output the following fields:
   • Shot #: incremental number  
   • Scene #: screenplay scene number, if present  
   • Time Code: cumulative (hh:mm:ss) starting at 00:00:00  
   • Location & Setting (INT/EXT, place, time of day)  
   • Action & Dialogue summary (≤ 20 words)  
   • Camera & Framing (e.g. “WS – slow push-inâ€�, “CU – handheldâ€�)  
   • Mood & Lighting notes  
   • Key Prop / VFX / SFX  
   • **Illustration Prompt**: a single-sentence Midjourney-style prompt describing the exact frame (no camera jargon)  
   • Panel #: leave blank (to be filled later)  
4. Format as a MARKDOWN TABLE.  
5. Keep each cell concise; do **not** quote screenplay lines verbatim—summarise.  
6. After the table, append a 1-paragraph “Director’s Lookbookâ€� summarising tone, colour palette, lenses, and any recurring visual motifs.  
7. If the input script exceeds 5,000 words, process only the first 15 pages and note it in the output.  


This is one of my recent OWC scripts...

It came up with aa a text storyboard that won't paste in here very well, but it did a shot by shot breakdown of the script, here's the headings it used and the first two shots, plus the lookbook.

| Shot # | Scene # | Time Code | Location & Setting| Action & Dialogue Summary                            | Camera & Framing | Mood & Lighting| Key Prop / VFX / SFX | **Illustration Prompt**                                                                                            

| 1      | 1       | 00:00:00  | EXT. Mansion garden pool – DAY  | Bob strides from mansion toward pool; heat shimmers. | WS – symmetrical static | Scorching noon; candy-pastel palette | Pool, mansion façade | Pastel mansion towers behind turquoise pool as tan elder strides poolside in red speedos under blistering noon sky. |         |
| 2      | 1       | 00:00:08  | EXT. Pool loungers – DAY        | Bob sprawls on lounger, boasts to himself.           | MS – slow push-in       | Same harsh sun, whimsical            | Lounger, sunglasses  | Sun-bleached lounger with smug older man reclining, mustard and teal accents forming perfect symmetry.              |         |


Director’s Lookbook
“Droning On� plays like a sun-baked screwball farce rendered through a Wes Anderson prism: rigid symmetry, center-weighted compositions, pastel primaries (sun-faded reds, pool-tile teals, sherbet yellows), and graphic overheads punctuate the live-action chaos. We’ll shoot mostly 40 mm anamorphic for gentle wides, switching to 65 mm close-focus for intimate absurdity. Lighting stays hard and high—summer noon without mercy—offset by powder-soft bounce to keep skin creamy. Repeating visual motifs include the hovering drone (later shattered into candy confetti), striped pool textiles, and matching Speedos/Bikini hues that echo the toy-like props. Police arrival introduces desaturated blues before Pedro’s cherry-red roadster re-injects saturated warmth, carrying us into the cheeky, liberated finale.


I then asked it to create a visual for shot #1 with the style as specified, and then as a pencil drawing like the ones Blooper does. And then repeat the same for Shot #2








This probably took me longer than it would with Blooper, but I guess the answer is that yes, you could do it with ChatGPT, or Claude, or Gemini.

That's all about what could be done... not to Dave/Pia's very excellent points wether or not is should be done in the first place... interesting times!

Interesting times indeed. One could load your images and summary into any AI engine and have a script in 30 secs max.

Like I said, glad I'm old so I don't have to struggle with the moral issues...