jonathon wrote:
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
Have a look at
http://www.oooforum.org/forum/viewtopic.phtml?t=989&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0
May be of some help
Russell
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