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Write screenplays! Collaborate with your partner! Hear your script performed! Movie Magic Screenwriter won't find you an agent or sell your work, but it enables point-and-poke writers to create an acceptable-looking script, and has enough added goodies to keep an aspiring Hollywood hotshot entertained.
This program automatically formats your script, putting character names, scene headings, and action in the appropriate places. It also does a good job of guessing what you want once you've started writing: filling in a character's name after you've hit the first letter or automatically attending to details such as pagination, MOREs, and other script-writing tasks.
Program creators added templates from actual television-show scripts, so writers can get a glimpse of formatting for everything from Friends to King of the Hill, an invaluable tool for writing spec scripts or just peeking into the working mechanisms of Tinseltown. There are 50 partial scripts in all. Extra bonus--use this program to name your baby after you're done writing a masterpiece. Movie Magic Screenwriter contains the most comprehensive name bank we've ever seen: first names from Abramo to Zola, and every surname imaginable.
This program also allows online collaboration, via voice or text, and can publish scripts on the Internet. There's a production-scheduling function and revision options should your work make it into production. Finally, one old-fashioned touch that we found rather charming in this high-tech, "does everything for you" screenwriting program: it can print directly onto index cards (provided) for writers who prefer to order their scenes like they did in the good old days before computers did everything for us. --Anne Erickson
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Writing scripts for film, television, and theater is usually a time-consuming task. There are many elements in a script (i.e. scene headings, character names, dialogue, scene breaks, etc.) that must be correctly placed in your script. Following these conventions is essential in making sure your script is receiving proper attention from agents, producers, and contest judges. Screenwriter works by your side, automatically formatting action, character name, dialogue, and other elements as you write your script.
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101 of 105 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
You wanna write, or do you wanna read the instructions?,
By A Customer
This review is from: Movie Magic Screenwriter With Free Book "The Screenwriter's Bible" (CD-ROM)
After trying out a couple demos for the leading formatting software, I couldn't stop working on Screenwriter. It was so easy to use, and fun, I ended up writing a 40 page script on the demo. The other demos demanded I spend the time learning the software before I was able to start writing, what a bother!Screenwriter frees you up to let the ideas flow, it's like having a secretary who thinks you are so brilliant he will take care of all the annoying details for you and even predict what your thinking. Screenwriter will also rib you about procrastinating if you wonder off to play with the preferences. I love choosing the actors to read my script out loud, and the storyboard feature. Defiantly the software to get if you want to enjoy writing.
52 of 52 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent application that expands with your needs.,
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This review is from: Movie Magic Screenwriter With Free Book "The Screenwriter's Bible" (CD-ROM)
Screenwriter 2000Screenwriter 2000 enables you to create script-documents based on a number of pre-formatted templates, which respond to a set of hotkeys, mostly Tab and Enter, in order to conveniently place text in the appropriate place for screenplays, stage plays, etc. You can also use Screenwriter 2000 as a you would normally use a word processor, since it has spell checking and font formatting features. Custom templates can be created from scratch, or by modifying those installed. The format set-up property sheet / control panel is well thought out, access to all the parameters needed are from that screen, there being no need for jumping from one dialog box to another. The primary interface is usefully uncluttered, and is switchable between standard Microsoft Word view and its own. Not that there's a lot of difference, but it could be a comfort factor if you're used to Word. Import and file save-as options are very comprehensive. But you'll mostly be saving as a SCW file, a PDF for distribution and printing from outside of Screenwriter, and RTF for those who don't have Screenwriter and need an editable draft. Pasting a previously created script with the correct formatting from an RTF will result in Screenwriter applying the correct tags to the copied text, so that you don't need to worry about having to re-do the script in Screenwriter. The only distraction that I encountered was in Dialogue text. In Screenwriter 2000 you have to insert a specific line-break to avoid the enter key splitting the dialogue with the ( more ) and Joe Blow ( cont't ) tags as if you were crossing a page-break. This can be done by going Edit > Add Dialogue Paragraph or using Ctrl+Alt +D. The index cards are directly editable, which might be useful, but you are warned that some of the features used in the main editing window will be lost. Warnings of this type abound, so you're unlikely to do anything disastrous if you heed them. Screenwriter 2000 is a great product for writing scripts which will keep their formatting automatically updated as you proceed, revise, and amend. It should also be borne in mind that Screenwriter 2000 is part of a suite of products, which will allow you cover many aspects of the production process beyond the screenplay.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Best screenwriting software for PC ever!,
By Goat of Death "goatofdeath" (Olymipa, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Movie Magic Screenwriter With Free Book "The Screenwriter's Bible" (CD-ROM)
I bought what is now Movie Magic Screenwriter way back in version 2 when it was called ScriptThing. Since then not once have I been required to pay for an upgrade and the functionality improvements have been amazing. So I went from 2 to the current 4.73 all on from my original purchase whereas a friend of mine with Final Draft has had to routinely pay for upgrades at each version number.It makes the formatting a breeze. Most of the changes in formatting are done simply by hitting tab or enter at the end of a line. And all the formatting is completely customizable. So you can decide what you want to bold or caps if you like making your writer's drafts a little different from standard. It also imports from a bevy of other formats extremely well. So if you have screenplay's you've already written in Word or Word Perfect it's no problem. You can have it print your screenplay to PDF, collaborate with a fellow screenwriter online, use the index card view to outline and plot out your screenplay. It's awesome. Whenever in the past I encountered bugs and reported them to tech support they've been quick to respond and I've seen the problem fixed in free updates. Try the demo, unlike Final Draft's Demo it lets you save so any work you put into a screenplay won't be lost when you decide to buy Movie Magic.
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