What is Screenplay Format?
If you ever want somebody in the film industry to read your story and seriously consider transforming it into a movie then there are a few rules you need to adhere to. Principally format. Producers, Agents, Readers, Actors and Development Executives – your first audience – need to be able to sit down with your work and imagine your words transformed into pictures and dialogue on the big screen. To do this, you have to help them. You have to take away as many obstacles as possible and make their reading experience enjoyable, engaging and most of all.. easy. Many people say that the first ten pages of a screenplay are the most important because if you haven’t grabbed the reader by then, they may well put your script down and move on to the next in their pile. That’s where the screenplay formatting guidelines come in. Through the years an industry standard has developed for the presentation of scripts. From size of margins, to page numbering, to placement of text on the page. This all has
