/tv/ - Television & Film

>>22684 (OP)
LaTex

>>22698
Yeah, I need something like index cards.

>>22709
You can buy those at the dollar store

>>22709
zettelkasten

>>22709
Don't @ me, nigger.

>>22684 (OP)
Scrivener.

I'll drop Baskin posting for one second. Use LogSeq. It is not a screenwriting software, but you can trust it is well funded.

use your brain and sticky notes

>>22684 (OP)
Just pirate Final Draft like everyone else.

>>22698
Screenwriting requires formatting. Using dedicated software allows you to just write and is great for productivity.

This is the best one I've ever used. One-off fee of $75 and has all the essential features and then some. I'd recommend The Hollywood Standard by Christopher Riley to make sure you're formatting it to industry standards. Always remember you're writing a technical document and not a novel, and the audience are the people making the film, not film critics or even filmgoers. Final Draft sucks as it's an expensive subscription and way too feature-rich.

t. have won a few screenwriting competitions and sold a few scripts

>>22698
yes yes retard faggot it's super fun to have to reformat every fucking line in Word yes i can't wait to spend hours doing that for every second of dialog i write yes yes

>>22764
>Always remember you're writing a technical document and not a novel
Scripts are gay, just write a novel at that point. Your audience is millions of women instead of a handful of gay hollywood jews.

>>22764
>>22684 (OP)
You are retarded to not just go straight to digital storyboard then.

>>22816
It depends on whether you want to be a novelist or a screenwriter, guy.

>>22818
Nope, not what that means. All that is is how an artist thinks the film will look based on input from the director.

>>22764
>reformat
For what? Now you have potential issues depending on what program they view with. Just fucking tab and space like a man.

>>22821
If you want less control over your own creation that is in you.
If your proposal is a digital storyboard you not only make your own intentions on visual approach made first, which causes inherent pro bias you engage the audience. Even producers and directors these days don't want to read.
A vast amount of text about setting and action can be avoided with fairly simplistic illustration.

>>22824
E.G. "Watchmen" Think of how long of a work that would be as a conventional novel. As a graphic novel so many elements can be condensed visually instead of needing to be conveyed in words.

>>22827
And I get that a script can get away with bare bones relaying environment and action, but it still has to be relayed.
The only negative is if you such at graphics. You need digital pen and set models that can be manipulated instead of drawing from scratch for each frame.

>>22722
Scrivener is good but they don't have native Linux binaries (yet) and the last version doesn't works with Wine.