Tell it the story. Get the screenplay.

INT. PALACE CINEMA - NIGHT

Describe the idea, set the running time, answer a few questions. Get a full, formatted script.

Write my script Watch it write a page

1INT. YOUR APARTMENT - 3 A.M.1

You, wide awake. The idea arrived an hour ago and it will not leave.

You type it into your phone before it goes, the way everybody does: fast, lowercase, full of question marks.

Page 1 of about 90.

Then you open a blank document. A formatted script page runs about one minute of screen time, so a feature is roughly ninety of them, and nobody tells you where page one starts.

2INT. WRITERS' ROOM - DAY2

It asks what a producer would ask.

Not a form. A few high-level questions about the parts your idea left open. Anything the idea already answers, it skips.

Whose story?

One person the audience follows. The keeper, or the voice on the radio?

Asked when your idea has two leads

What do they want?

And what stands in the way. That pair is the engine of every scene.

Asked when the goal is unclear

How should it feel?

Same idea, different film. Pick one; the page in scene 4 will follow it.

Tone

How does it end?

Earned, bittersweet, or left open. The last scene decides the first one.

Asked when there is no ending yet

Where will it play?

Festival short, a YouTube piece, a pitch, a feature. And what you can actually shoot.

Sets locations, cast size and pace

That's the room.

A handful of questions, answered in plain words, and the writing starts.

3INT. PRODUCER'S OFFICE - DAY3

The one question that decides everything else, asked across a desk.

Producer

How long is it?

Running time
Pages
90
Scenes, typical
36-60

Feature. Three acts.

    Rules of thumb, not rules: about one page per minute, and the big turns where audiences expect to feel them. You can move any of them.

    1.

    FADE IN:

    Sample page. Tone: eerie. Page 1 of about 90.
    Tone
    A bound screenplay held with two brass brads, lying on a walnut desk under a lamp.

    5INT. STUDY - NIGHT5

    What lands on your desk.

    • The full screenplay, timed to your running time and set to industry margins.
    • A scene list with locations and day or night, ready for a stripboard.
    • Characters, with who speaks in which scene.
    • A logline and a one-page synopsis for when someone asks what it's about.
    • Export to PDF, Fountain or Final Draft.

    FADE OUT.

    Your turn. Roll it.

    Type the idea the way it lives in your head. We'll show you the shape of the script and the first things we'd ask.