If you're a traditionalist, though, you're welcome to set your tabs and develop styles for LibreOffice yourself. If the application also has features to help manage names of places and people, then that's an added bonus. While you can, technically, type a screenplay and format it manually, screenwriters tend to prefer to have an application that manages margins and some basic capitalization automatically. There's a delicate balance to be had, and that's why screenplay formatting has evolved into the funky, off-centered layout it retains to this day.
If an eighth of a page contains too much, that gives an unfair expectation of what needs to get shot in one session. In fact, it's an industry rule of thumb that one page of screenplay equates to one minute of screen time, and films are shot in divisions of page eighths. And let's face it: If there's one thing Linux has in abundance, it's text editors. Before you know it, you're beholden to that application forever.Īmazingly, something as simple as typing the text of a screenplay is subject to the exact same marketing push: you're told to use a specific application or a specific cloud service if you want to be taken "seriously." But the truth is, once a screenplay is printed out on white and pink and yellow and blue pages, as long as it's formatted correctly it's just text that could have been typed into any application. And while a student discount may apply at first, eventually the full price kicks in. Those tools are, conveniently, the products of specific vendors. I thought a companion article might be of interest to our fellow screenwriters out there, with a closer look at some of the screenplay tools that Jason mentioned and a spotlight on some of the tools that I've uncovered (or created) myself.įor years (and in fact, to this very day), young artists are told that if they're "serious" about their art, they'll use a very specific set of tools. It includes some tools I'd never heard of before, some tools I was very familiar with, and it was missing some tools that I myself loved. Welcome to the communityīack in May of this year, Jason van Gumster wrote 4 open source tools for writing your next screenplay.
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