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This school is: Wikiversity Film School - Narrative film production This course is: The basics of narrative filmmaking This lesson is: Formatting the script

Pages of this lesson:

Page 1 - Lesson summary & the story

Page 2 - Analyze the story

Page 3 - Learn Final Draft

Page 4 - Type the script

The completed assignments (formatted scripts)

Analyze the story and format the movie script using a script formatting program

For the first lesson of this course, you are given a short story and you are told to format the story into the proper format for a motion picture script.

A golden opportunity - Final Draft FREE demo version Now is an excellent time to learn script formatting. This is a task that people do every day in Hollywood so this lesson give you excellent practice.

A wonderful tool You can download a free yet working demo version of Final Draft which is a script typing and script formatting program. This is the ideal program for learning script formatting. There are versions for both the Macintosh and Windows.

An interesting alternative I prefer that you use Final Draft FREE demo version. But if that is not possible, you can download a free program called CeltX which is still under construction (version 0.99) and the manual is incomplete. However, it looks very interesting, it is free, and it works on Linux as well as Macintosh and Windows.

Why such a simple story?

This is an extremely simple story. It seems trivial. You say, "I want something more challenging!"

I have heard this a thousand times from beginning filmmakers. Filmmaking looks so easy.

Wrong! This movie will be anything but easy. By the time we turn this simple script into a motion picture, this tiny movie will require a huge amount of effort. Filmmaking is never as simple as it looks. With this very simple scene, you will have the opportunity to do it all.

The steps of this lesson

1. Look at the story To the right, you see the story for "Seduced by the Dark Side!". Even though this is a very short story, it still needs proper formatting because this movie will be worked on by hundreds of people. Everyone in Hollywood expects to see your script typed in the proper format.

2. Identify the elements On page 2, you see how the story is broken down into the different elements such as CHARACTER and DIALOG. Before you turn to this page, think about what elements of the story are needed for the script.

3. Download and learn to use Final Draft demo version On page 3, you get a brief introduction to Final Draft. Final Draft is both a very professional program with lots of features and a simple typing program. First, you need to learn all the elements of a formatted script. Your second step is to learn how to navigate inside of Final Draft.

Important: Even though Final Draft has a tutorial, you will learn navigation mostly by trial and error using the TAB and the RETURN keys.

4. Typing the script - Line by Line On page 4, you as shown all the steps of typing this script using Final Draft. Try doing this without looking. If you have studied the script and learned how to format using Final Draft, you should not need to read this page… but I include it just in case. HYPERLINKS Course #1: 	Basic Filmmaking Course #2: 	Film Editing Introduction Course #3: 	Film Scoring for filmmakers Course #4: 	Film Scoring for musicians Exercise: 	Script Writing Exercise Project: 	The Storyboard Artwork Project Future: 	Digital Puppet Animatio