Soundtrack First
Writer listening and making notes in a warm cinema-inspired room

For rooms that want to make something together

The playlist is the brief. The room is the studio.

A host creates a Spotify playlist, shares its URL with the group, and everyone writes from that fixed listening order: one score, many possible films.

Choose the room

Bring the format to the people who write beside you.

01

Writing groups

Trade ordinary prompt nights for a shared score. Each writer leaves with a different scene, treatment, poem, or short film.

02

Workshops

Use music to teach structure without over-explaining it. The fixed order gives the session a real deadline and a clear dramatic spine.

03

Open rooms

Invite a community to hear the same material together, write in private, then read, screen, or share the work at the end.

Host a session

One playlist. One rule set. One evening that cannot be repeated.

  1. 01

    Curate the score

    Build the Spotify playlist before anyone arrives, then send its URL to every participant. Fix the listening order and keep your interpretation to yourself.

  2. 02

    Set the duration

    Make each track a scene, beat, or page of time. Decide whether writers work alone or pass the story forward.

  3. 03

    Press play

    Let the music govern the room. No rewrites to chase later tracks; every turn has to earn its place.

  4. 04

    Hold the premiere

    Read the results, screen the fragments, or simply compare the films each person heard.

A playable brief

Scene one belongs to Beethoven. Scene two belongs to Interpol.

A shared playlist makes the format instantly legible: every writer receives the same sequence, then discovers a different film inside it.

Soundtrack First playlist prototype showing the opening tracks of a shared writing session

A simple playlist prototype for a Soundtrack First community session.

View the Feature Cut storyboard

Join a session

Start with your own score. Bring it to the next level.

There is no official reading of a soundtrack, which makes every Spotify playlist URL an invitation to new voices. Build your score, share the link with your group, then use it for a solo draft, a relay, or a gathering you host.

Create your soundtrack

Soundtrack First sessions

The same songs never make the same film.

That difference is the point: music becomes the initiation of design, not the last piece to complete.