I stay away from TV but I've adapted work to stage. Softwear might help with formatting but you really need to know a bit about staging and the difference in how you tell a story between the two mediums. A basic difference is people talk a LOT on stage they don't in film.
Scrivener do a writing prog - really interesting. you could write one version, say for theatre (which is entirely different from a screen play), in conjunction with each other? It's only $45, but they have a 30 day free trial period to check it all out. :)
Perhaps I do not understand the query. There isn't software that will change the screenplay format into the play format. Adapting a screenplay to a TV mini-series cannot be done with software. Or is there?
Not sure, I've only just been made aware of scrivener - they do have different sections though, inc poetry. theatre, short story, screenplay so have a look. I think you may need to do some work in getting your work to format into those categories?
All software has the formatting options. But as I understand it, a writer needs to enter the script. Since a play and a screenplay are so very different in format I suspect it will still take the human element to turn a properly formatted screenplay into a properly formatted stage play. A screenplay into a mini series... Isn't a mini series typically three to six hour long episodes? I would think it would take more than software to turn a feature length screenplay of, say, 110 pages into a TV mini series of around 130 to 260 pages. It's more than software it's scenes, acts, characters....
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Celtx (open source) It is not a drag and drop, but there may be an app for that soon enough. (wink)
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I stay away from TV but I've adapted work to stage. Softwear might help with formatting but you really need to know a bit about staging and the difference in how you tell a story between the two mediums. A basic difference is people talk a LOT on stage they don't in film.
Scrivener do a writing prog - really interesting. you could write one version, say for theatre (which is entirely different from a screen play), in conjunction with each other? It's only $45, but they have a 30 day free trial period to check it all out. :)
Perhaps I do not understand the query. There isn't software that will change the screenplay format into the play format. Adapting a screenplay to a TV mini-series cannot be done with software. Or is there?
Not sure, I've only just been made aware of scrivener - they do have different sections though, inc poetry. theatre, short story, screenplay so have a look. I think you may need to do some work in getting your work to format into those categories?
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All software has the formatting options. But as I understand it, a writer needs to enter the script. Since a play and a screenplay are so very different in format I suspect it will still take the human element to turn a properly formatted screenplay into a properly formatted stage play. A screenplay into a mini series... Isn't a mini series typically three to six hour long episodes? I would think it would take more than software to turn a feature length screenplay of, say, 110 pages into a TV mini series of around 130 to 260 pages. It's more than software it's scenes, acts, characters....