In this lecture, I want to introduce you to a free screenwriting tool called Amazon story writer. The first page is a title page, a very simple title page. We simply write something in here, test script and your name, James. And so we're ready to go. We can start. What I like about script writer, Amazon story writer, of course, is that it's free.

But also it's a very simple layout. There's no advanced details. It's pretty intuitive, what you need to do in an earlier lecture, we saw how scripts are written to a standard industry format, whereby each rubric, each category is indented by a certain amount. a program like story writer does this automatically, as you'll see. Now, before we start, the movie, we write, fade in, which is how every modern movie starts. We click Enter, and you can see that it's jumped to the right hand side.

It's been identified as a transition. And this is where transitions belong. So the very first thing we want to do is to write a scene. So we click on scene heading. And I'm going to say that it's internal. So I empty with a period, click a space, and then we need to write the location.

I'm going to say, an airplane, anger, space, hyphen. And now we need to specify the day or the night. I'm going to say that it's nighttime. Now we press Enter. And you can see immediately it jumps to the category action. Now I have some, some text prepared for the action, so I'll simply paste it in.

So john enters running. He's distressed. He's hiding. What is hidden, another man enters holding a gun. So we don't have to write fantastic prose. We simply describe events as they're happening with short sentences.

We leave it to the reader's imagination to fill in the details of the man that dress and things like this. Okay, so we can press enter, and click on the character because we want Smith to speed. When I click on character, you can see the cursor moves right over to the correct position. Right the character's name Smith, and hit enter. automatically. It's moved down to dialogue.

But I want Smith to shout because the anger is big. So I'll go click on parenthetical. And I'll write, shouting and then hit return again. We're still on the dialogue category. So I can simply right I know you're in here. Don't waste my time.

I'll hit return. When you hit return, it moves back up to the action category. And now I want to show another scene in the common towel domain control tower for the airport. So I will click transition right cut into then I can go back to the scene heading and type external calling tower from 10 trims let's spell that correctly. front entrance. Night.

Press Enter and then I can describe some action So you can see that pretty quickly you can build up a script that looks quite professional, everything's in the correct place. You can save it. Let's call it test script. Save the draft. Welcome to Studio binder. We're going to show you how to break down your script.

To get started, simply import a script file from another program. Just drag and drop your script here. It is better to use native script files like MDX or fountain files instead of PDFs. Studio binder will automatically recognize any element The screenwriter tag while dropping the script. If you use studio binder screenwriting software, you don't have to worry about uploading new versions, because everything you write and change will be updated across all of your studio by the features. The navigation strip is located here.

You'll see a number is located here. jump to any scene in your script by using this drop down. Click the arrows to navigate back and forth between scenes. Scene information, like interior okay exterior and time of day is displayed here. And your cast members represented by their cast ID number is displayed here. If you know your filming location for the scene, you can create and assign them here.

The page count for your scene is displayed. Yeah. your sidebar, which displays all tagged scene elements is located here. Your script version is located here at the top. If you revert to a previous version of your script, your tagged elements will also revert. And you can move back to your latest version just as easily