Carl Garrett wrote: > Screenplays must follow a a very specific format in order to be taken > seriously by agents and > producers- a difficult format to do without the right software.
And each production insists on their own different formatting. [I'm pretty sure that the quality of TV would be improved a thousand times if they all used the same formatting specifications, and didn't spend time measuring whether the line spacing was 1/8 inch or 5/32 inch high.] > Open Office creates a of templates and formatting tools, connected to > Writer, that would help aspiring (aka dirt poor) screenwriters write > and properly format their screenplays. Lost in the bowels of the OOo website is a project to do just that. I've forgotten what it is called, but the original theory was that it would produce templates for the "major" studios, and then fine tune them for the specific productions. I've forgotten how the screenplay template fits in with that project. > I would be glad to email you a .pdf to show you the formatting "hoops" > screenwriters have to jump through. Hoops? These are the guys that will fire you because the document used midnight blue ink for the lead actor, rather than dark blue ink. God help you if the document is printed on canary yellow paper, instead of manilla.[That the footer contains a date and time stamp is not enough information to tell the understudy that they are using the wrong document.] xan jonathon --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
