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Below are some helpful resources to help you through your
screenwriting journey…
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Montages: Three Styles that Work - Montages are used when writer's want to show a quick passage of time in their screenplay. But most amateur writers incorrectly format their montage scenes. Here are three easy-to-use styles.
The Power of Parentheticals - If you plan to use parentheticals in your screenplay (and most people do), make sure you are using them in the right circumstances, and in the right ways. Follow the simple guidelines here, and you can't go wrong!
Formatting Title Pages - The Title Page is the first thing someone will see when they read your script to consider it for production. Make sure it is properly formatted!
Creating Telephone Conversations -
How you format a telephone conversation depends on how much information you want to devulge to the audience as to who is on the other side of the phone. Read these guidelines to learn how to make it work!
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Screenwriting Software:
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Final
Draft - Use your creative energy to focus on the
content; let Final Draft take care of the style. Final
Draft is the number-one selling word processor specifically
designed for writing movie scripts, television episodics
and stage plays.
It combines powerful word processing with professional script formatting in one
self-contained, easy-to-use package. There is no need to learn about script formatting
rules – Final Draft automatically paginates and formats your script to industry
standards as you write. |
Story Development Software:
Save
the Cat! Software - Structure your screenplay
the Save the Cat! way as you develop a logline, choose
a genre, fill in your beat sheet, work with moveable
cards on "The Board," and enjoy tips and a
tutorial from Blake — along with the beat sheet and
Board for Spider-Man 2, and much more!
Dramatica
Pro - Dramatica is both a series of software
products for writers and a relatively unique perspective
of how stories work. This site is the home of hundreds
of pages of materials and tools for anyone interested
in creating, critiquing, analyzing, writing, or otherwise
working with stories.
Power
Structure -
Power Structure helps you shape your good ideas into a great
novel, screenplay, or stageplay.
"Power Structure
is near perfect. I've written four novels, seven screenplays,
and this is the most helpful software I've found." -- Eric J. Adams
Books:
Save the Cat! by Blake Snyder
Story by Robert McKee
Screenplay by Syd Field
Screenwriting 434 by Lew Hunter
Inside Story: The Power of the Transformational
Arc by
Dara Marks
Websites:
www.script-o-rama.com
www.triggerstreet.com
www.imdbpro.com
www.inktip.com
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