Script research

For our film opening, we must produce a script. 

Professional screenwriters are already aware of programmes with professional solutions such as Final draft, Celtx and Adobe Story. These options particularly focus on formatting and collaboration.

The script is usually written so that one page roughly equals one minute of screen time, the standard font is 12 point, 10-pitch courier. In a draft of the script there is a very minimal technical direction and the scenes are not numbered where as in a ‘shooting script’ each scene is numbered and technical direction is given.

In the script there is dialogue, this is the lines that the characters are speaking, and the action, which is written in the present tense.

• The interplay between typeface/font, line spacing and type area, from which the standard of one page of text per one minute of screen time is derived. In the United States letter size paper and Courier 12 point are mandatory; Europe uniformly uses A4 as the standard paper size format, and has no uniform font requirement.
• The tab settings of the screen elements (dialogue, scenes headings, transitions, parenthetical, etc.), which constitute the screenplay's layout.
  
  
• The dialogue must be centered and the names must be capitalized. A script usually begins with "FADE IN:", followed by the first scene description. It might get more specific, e.g. "FADE IN ON AN ECU of Ricky as he explains the divorce to Bob." A script will usually end with "FADE TO BLACK", though there are variables, like "CUT TO BLACK" for abrupt endings.  

A speculative screenplay is a script that is being written to be sold with no promise of payment, the screenwriter usually thinks up the ideas in the script. A writer who has been hired writes a commissioned screenplay, the idea of the film has usually been thought of a long time before a screenwriter has been hired.

Now that script writing has been researched, we will create our script.