Type a screenplay with eight elements: Scene Heading, Action, Character, Parenthetical, Dialogue, Transition, Shot and General. Tab and Enter move you to the element that comes next.
Start a scene heading and the editor offers INT. and EXT., your locations and times of day. Start a character cue and it offers the characters you already have.
The Writing Room opens panels next to the script: scene notes, characters, comments and the Beat Board. Private notes are seen only by the person who wrote them.
Page setup offers Letter or A4, font, size and spacing, with header and footer. MORE and CONT'D are added for you. Fill in a structured title page and see it as you type.
Each one with what it does, what it is for, and where it is available.
Scene Heading, Action, Character, Parenthetical, Dialogue, Transition, Shot and General note.
Type less, finish faster.
Shown in a screen above: Typing a first scene heading: the suggestion list
Start a new page where you want one.
Shown in a screen above: Element type menu
Add an element your format needs.
Jump to any scene.
Do more with a scene from its menu.
Change a scene number with a warning.
Everything about one scene in one place.
Search the scene or the whole script.
Catch typing mistakes as you write.
Teach the editor your names.
Type in the language of your film.
Paper, font, spacing, header and footer.
Fill in a title page and see it as you type.
See the script as printed pages.
Dialogue that splits across pages is marked for you.
Read the page at a comfortable size.
Notes and references beside the page.
Hide everything except the page.
Write notes that stay with a scene.
Notes only you can see.
Comment on words, scenes or the whole draft.
Talk it through, then close it.
Keep more than one script together.
Three ways to begin a screenplay.
Scenes can start as cards on the Beat Board. Once a draft is locked for shooting, the Breakdown reads its scenes, and from there the schedule, call sheets and sides.
Written guides on the real screens of your platform.
Create a screenplay when the project does not have one yet.
Know what each part of the Screenplay page does before you start writing.
Type scene headings, action, character, dialogue and the other elements, and move between them with the keyboard or the element bar.
Fill in a character name from the names already in the script, or create a new one.
Jump to a scene, add one, reorder scenes and show or hide the list.
Add columns to the scene list so you can see page numbers, note counts, revision changes and production numbers.
Send a scene to other parts of OpenFrame, copy or export it, and see everything linked to it.
Set your own scene number, or go back to the automatic number.
Reorder a scene and confirm the warning when the scene is already used in the production plan.
Know what each part of the Screenplay page does before you write.
Type a scene heading and an action line and see the scene appear in the scene list.
Change a line to Scene Heading, Action, Character, Dialogue and the other elements.
Give the page the full width, then bring the scene list back.
Show the page, notes, revision and production number of every scene next to its heading.
Use the right-click menu of the script page for editing, lookups and spelling.
Make the page smaller to see more of it, or larger to read comfortably.
Cut the screen down to the page, or change the page to a dark background.
Search the script and step through every match.
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