This is not an app.
A real-time filmmaking coach: it watches you shoot through your phone, judges what you do, and teaches the craft during the take — not after, not before.
One judgment loop. Thirteen shapes.
Point the phone, declare a move, and the reticle scores it during the take — a locked-off hold, a whip pan’s snap and settle, a dolly’s constant velocity. Thirteen dedicated judgers, each watching for a different shape of intent.
What it’s watching for, every take
It watches your style, not just your shot.
Four systems that sit around the live score — before the take, during it, and in the review after.
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The product’s own 3D is the site’s 3D.
These run inside the Android app right now — not a recording, not a mockup. Two of them run below, unmodified, on their own three.js builds. Press play.
A wall of the craft. Drag to orbit, click a panel to dive in.
8,781 teaching plates, tiled across one sphere. Dolly in to read one.
Virtual Set
19 lit panorama scenes and 4 pre-built character vignettes — the sandbox where a move gets rehearsed before the take. It runs the same way in-app; we kept it there so this page stays light.
Five diagrams, before the camera moves.
The handbook that bridges plan → rehearse → shoot. The rules are simple to draw and hard to hold on set — which is the entire reason a coach that watches in real time is worth having.
Never cross it, or the geography lies.
Move at least 30°, or the cut reads as a jump.
Key, fill, back — the triangle every setup starts from.
86 beats. Nine shapes of story.
Grown from 37 across two passes of the curriculum — every beat still sorts into one of nine categories, from what a scene needs to be true before it starts, to how it earns the cut out.
The library, shelved.
Four ways into the same offline curriculum — pick a track, work a lesson, read a chapter, or just look something up.
Library Browse
1,463 filmmaking · 2,015 storytelling — across 16 curated tracks.
Lesson Catalog
One consistent eight-step arc, start to finish, every lesson.
Story Study
15,594 words, in five clusters:
Encyclopedia
10 topics, glossary-deep, answered on-device by Ask Iris.
Depth is the moat.
Most of this never surfaces in a five-minute demo. It’s there anyway.
Reading isn’t practicing.
Five separate systems drill the curriculum in, away from the camera — quizzes, prediction games, timed drills, and two kinds of rehearsal.
Knowledge Check
Watch & Predict
Watch a real shot, predict what happens next in the coverage — six tiers of difficulty, stale copy in-app finally corrected from “six exercises” to the real count.
Train
Frame Lab
A reference plate, an overlay, and your camera — static composition drills matched against a real still.
Shoot Mission
Multi-shot scenes, scored live — the closest the app gets to directing a real short before you point a camera at one.
Six more frames from the kit.
promo renders · concept photography, not device screenshots
Craft, in the small things.
Ask Iris answers from the curriculum itself — on-device, offline, no round-trip to a server. The same care shows up somewhere most apps get lazy: what it says when it isn’t even open.
88 notification events · 6 channels · none of them shout
Lecture meets mirror.
NotSoStill is a real-time filmmaking coach from NotSoSure: it watches you shoot through your phone, judges what you do, and teaches the craft during the take — not after, not before.
Even the sound is considered: a custom “Warm Gold Glass” family — 14 sounds, 5 tuned to the notification channels, 9 to UI moments — under all 88 of those notification events. Craft, down to what it sounds like.
NotSoStill · Lecture meets mirror. Published by NotSoSure