How To Format A Screenplay

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Script Studio® is the popular creative writing app for screenwriters, playwrights and novelists that helps you plan your story outline, develop characters, structure your narrative and professionally format your movie script, stage play, TV show or manuscript. It was developed by a produced screenwriter to take the complexity out of the script and novel writing process, allowing you to focus on your story while the software handles the formatting and pagination.

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Its intuitive design is based on the principle of step-outlining which allows you to plan and build your cinematic structure scene by scene or novel chapter by chapter. With Script Studio you can color-code your structure into acts and sequences, use templates such as "The Hero's Journey" and compare the progress of your own story side by side with scene by scene breakdowns and analyses of 12 successful Hollywood movies:

• Dead Poets Society
• Die Hard
• Ghost
• Good Will Hunting
• Pretty Woman
• Scream
• Seven
• Spider-Man
• The Terminator
• There's Something About Mary
• True Romance
• When Harry Met Sally

Script Studio is unique because it offers what no other creative writing software can -- an all-in-one story development package that takes your initial idea from concept to professionally formatted script, making it the ultimate writer's tool which is now used by many Hollywood professionals.

Script Studio is Retina / HiDPi aware and has a modern, intuitive user-interface design that allows Full Screen Mode and Night Mode. The software also includes a new custom font called Courier Nuvo which is designed for writing screenplays.

What's more, Script Studio is 100% cross-platform which means your license key will work on both Mac and Windows and projects saved on a Mac will appear identical when opened on Windows -- and vice versa. The software also fully supports Unicode text with diacritics and right-to-left text input for languages such as Arabic, Hebrew and Urdu. You can also download international dictionaries and thesauri for free to suit your region.

KEY FEATURES:

• Professional script formatting as you type
• Automatic scene numbering and pagination
• Designed for step and sequence outlining
• Powerful story structuring and organizational tools & color-coded structure templates
• Story Tasks and Scratch Pad notes management
• Character development Tools & Character Name Wizard
• Screenplay, stage play, teleplay and musical layout templates
• Reference library with 12 beat-by-beat outlines & analyses of Hollywood movies
• FeelFactor™ interactive story pacing and audience engagement charts
• Night Mode & Novel Mode
• Fully editable WYSIWYG Dual Dialogue
• Table Read text-to-speech & Dictation Assistant
• Unicode, diacritics & right-to-left language support
• Retina / HiDPI aware & supports Windows touch screen gestures
• Imports Final Draft (.fdx), PDF, plain text, rich text and Fountain
• Exports Final Draft (.fdx), PDF, plain text, rich text, Fountain, web html and scheduling format (.sex)
• 100% cross-platform

ENDORSEMENTS

“As a previous died in the wool lover of Final Draft, you need to know, I LOVE Script Studio and will never go back! I have never written so fast, so intuitively or felt in such complete control of the dynamic flow of ideas.” — Kieth Merrill, Academy Award® Winning Filmmaker

“I really like the way Script Studio focuses on story and structuring and believe that my students will benefit greatly from using it.” — John Bernstein, Professor of Film at Boston University

“The best-presented, customizable, integrated story forming, outlining and writing environment in my writing toolkit. My new go-to writing partner!” — Matthew Ferro, Writer / Producer / Director

“If you're looking for a tool to help you nurture your idea for a movie into an actual shooting script I recommend this program without hesitation.” — Richard Walter, Chairman UCLA