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Film/Video Formatting 

Screenplay Formatting:

The WGA foundation maintains a database of useful books on formatting (usually everything I'm seeing is available in most Public Libraries as well.) They also link to some very useful blogs

Here's a formatting overview:

WGA-Format Page

Here's the main site:

WGA-Site

Lots to discover.

& loads of Information at the WGC here in Canada...

WGC- Goodies



Here's a quick guide to Basic Formatting.

Basic Format Guide

&

Writer Duet  Cloud based & Free Software  for Scripts. WriterDuet  features real-time collaboration, online/offline writing, and infinite revision trachttps://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/power-point-view-pov-shots/king. It works really well;

https://writerduet.com/


 & Final Draft

(thanks to Dan Allen)

Here's how to Write A Script using Final Draft

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDM_9SV7c0k


I'll also be adding various FREE trials, and available working software. 

 We'll start with a useful Free Trial... which goes on. It allows us to write 15 pages of script & prints a watermark - but it's a start. And if you really like it, they'll sell a copy.


Free Trial-Final Draft

Check their site for APPS!!!

Format ...

...s NOT made of a set of rules that never change. They're meant to change as times and approaches change. The basics remain the same...but each decade brings new shadings or changes in approach. 


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Don't forget the joy of the POV SHOT...

https://www.premiumbeat.com/blog/power-point-view-pov-shots/

Here’s a link to the formatting of film-montage: 

First, a do-it-yourself approach.

https://www.storysense.com/format/montages.htm

& this one lays it out well:

https://screencraft.org/2018/03/16/screenwriting-basics-how-to-write-an-effective-montage/

A Classic Example:
Angles from Past & Future techniques:
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