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SCRIPT FORMATS Download formats and templates below, but first read this: Is it important to format scripts correctly? This is more an issue with cinema and feature length TV scripts than with other forms of TV, which tend to be less prescriptive, but the fact is that it is crucially important to use the correct format for any feature length drama script. Why is it important? There are a number of possible answers that go around. One is that the specific use of non-proportional courier font and the designated layout makes scripts conform closely to 1 page per minute. Well, dialogue tends to run faster (2 pages per minute or so) while action can be much, much slower (on Cimino's Deer Hunter there's a party described in a couple of lines that runs for over four minutes on its own). And yet it is true that most scripts, if the balance of dialogue and action is about right, tend to work out at a page a minute. On the other hand, many don't! Another, more credible, explanation is that the cinema layout we use gives a good visual balance between description and dialogue, ensuring that if there is too much of either then it shows up in a very obvious way. The most important reason that you need to know, though, is that any professional in the industry will be very wary of a script that is not incorrect format. How unfair and unjust! Perhaps. But look at it this way. There are only two reasons why a script would not be incorrect format.
Either way, do you want to work with that writer? Speaking personally, in my entire career I have only come across one incorrectly formatted script that turned out to be worth reading. And that writer turned out to be impossible to work with.. My case rests. |
A correctly formatted cinema script, with extra hints and tips on layout. If you do not have a pdf reader, download a free pdf viewer from Adobe - or if you prefer from Foxit.
Use this in Word or compatible programs. Correctly set-up paragraph styles, with simple instructions.
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Below are all the film scripts currently in the database starting with a number.
12 and Holding by Anthony S. Cipriano
Download 100 pages 132 Kb Digital PDF Format
April 6, 2004 Unspecified Draft
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12 Years a Slave by John Ridley
2014 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Download 142 pages 751 Kb Digital PDF Format
January 24, 2013 Final Shooting Script
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17 Again by Jason Filardi
Download 102 pages 248 Kb Digital PDF Format
October 5, 2007 Rewrite
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2012 by Roland Emmerich & Harald Kloser
Download 130 pages 217 Kb Digital PDF Format
February 19, 2008 Second Draft Polish
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30 Days of Night by Steve Niles and Stuart Beattie and Brian Nelson
Download 101 pages 248 Kb Digital PDF Format
July 22, 2006 Production Polish
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3:10 to Yuma by Michael Brandt & Derek Haas
Download 121 pages 322 Kb Digital PDF Format
January 23, 2007 Tan Revised Final Shooting Script
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42 by Brian Helgeland
Download 150 pages 2436 Kb Digital PDF Format
July 9, 2012 Double Blue Revisions
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(500) Days of Summer by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Bookworm adventures free full download. Weber
Download 120 pages 215 Kb Digital PDF Format
Unknown 2006 First Draft
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9 by Pamela Pettler
Download 78 pages 138 Kb Digital PDF Format
Undated Unspecified Draft
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