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Screenwriting
Screenwriter 2000 lines per page
Has anyone else noticed that Screenwriter 2000's default format averages out to roughly 56 lines per page?
And that as far as I can tell people wriitng in Final Draft often generate scripts of somewhere around 50 to 52 lines per page? With FD, it is a little tricky b/c I think it has a lot of templates that change the lines-per-page.
Anyway, I have been feeling like my scripts look and read and feel "too dense" lately. Like I just read Wedding Crashers, Harold and Kumar and Wild Hogs ( a recent sale ).. and they have a very breezy feel... and a low lines-per-page count.
I am wondering if anyone can tell me if Screenwriter 2000 can be reformatted to have fewer lines-per-page? If so, what is the cleanest/best way to do this? Does it have the equivalent of Final Draft's templates?
thanks for any info,
s.
www.writingrobot.com
And that as far as I can tell people wriitng in Final Draft often generate scripts of somewhere around 50 to 52 lines per page? With FD, it is a little tricky b/c I think it has a lot of templates that change the lines-per-page.
Anyway, I have been feeling like my scripts look and read and feel "too dense" lately. Like I just read Wedding Crashers, Harold and Kumar and Wild Hogs ( a recent sale ).. and they have a very breezy feel... and a low lines-per-page count.
I am wondering if anyone can tell me if Screenwriter 2000 can be reformatted to have fewer lines-per-page? If so, what is the cleanest/best way to do this? Does it have the equivalent of Final Draft's templates?
thanks for any info,
s.
www.writingrobot.com
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[nq:1]Has anyone else noticed that Screenwriter 2000's default format averages out to roughly 56 lines per page? And that as ... cleanest/best way to do this?
- [nq:1]Has anyone else noticed that Screenwriter 2000's default format averages out to roughly 56 lines per page?
- And that as ...
- cleanest/best way to do this?
- Does it have the equivalent of Final Draft's templates?
- thanks for any info, s.
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[nq:1]Has anyone else noticed that Screenwriter 2000's default format averages out to roughly 56 lines per page? And that as ... cleanest/best way to do this? Does it have the equivalent of Final Draft's templates? thanks for any info, s. www.writingrobot.com[/nq]
Change the top and bottom margins in Page Layout.
**** hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. Frank Sinatra
Change the top and bottom margins in Page Layout.
**** hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent. Frank Sinatra
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I once sat (suffered?) through a talk given by Greg Beall (who sometimes posts on MWS), the head of the Nicholl Competition, where he INSISTED that scripts have 56 lines per page.
But, since you mentioned Harold and Kumar as an example, I'm guessing that the Nicholl isn't a priority.
MC has given you one effective way to add some white space in MMS, and here's another:
Swicth to WP (wo
But, since you mentioned Harold and Kumar as an example, I'm guessing that the Nicholl isn't a priority.
MC has given you one effective way to add some white space in MMS, and here's another:
Swicth to WP (wo
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[nq:1]I once sat (suffered?) through a talk given by Greg Beall (who sometimes posts on MWS), the head of the ... space in MMS, and here's another: Swicth to WP (word processing) mode, then add blank lines wherever you want 'em.[/nq]
You can also go into EDIT SCRIPT FORMAT and add lines between elements. You might want to do that anyhow, as you may like two lines before the next slugline and (
You can also go into EDIT SCRIPT FORMAT and add lines between elements. You might want to do that anyhow, as you may like two lines before the next slugline and (
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