Look at old screenplays and see what you find. My guess, though, is that Final Draft underlines it for you, so people go with that. And you’re totally right, little dinky stuff like a title that’s underlined or not makes no real difference. Many thanks for coming to visit, and especially for recommending the book. If Steven Spielberg and Sydney Pollack and Ridley Scott can deal with your title page being CAPPED and UNDERLINED, I’m sure the rest of the industry isn’t sweating this. Kurt Leudtke, Steve Zaillian, Brian Helgeland, the Nolans, Darabont, Melissa Mathison, Jeff Nathanson, etc.
I’ve read so many different working writers’ approaches that I just don’t think the niggling ones matter, as long as the reader can follow, is excited by, the tale.Īs for this whole Title Page nitpicking, I decided to open several SCANNED versions of professionally-produced scripts, meaning not a re-typed script - a honest-to-goodness old-school scanned image of the original script.Īlmost ALL had their titles in CAP and UNDERLINED. Truth is, beyond the industry-standard formatting of margins and type (Scene Heading, Action, etc), the rest depends on the type of story the writer’s voice can come to the fore via use of say, how a montage is laid out on the page it only becomes an albatross if the story leaves the rails. I’ve had unnecessary arguments with other screenwriting types (people) who love to chide others regarding formatting techniques, only to discover later this is all they’re good at: formatting.
I find that books of the “WHAT NOT TO DO” ilk are more helpful. The following comment should be prefaced: I’m on this site because I recommend your book to people all the time, along with the Denny Martin Flinn one. Naturally, no one on the planet Earth had mentioned this to them besides me. And you tell them to put it in the lower left.” They’re going to do whatever you tell them. My friend said, “They can put it in the lower right if they want to.” I said, “You’re the screenwriting program. If the script has brads, it’s very hard to read anything that far over to the left. Then it’s right.ģ.) Your contact information goes in the lower right corner, not lower left. You have to write “Wwritten by” and then erase the capital W to get “written by”. And it’s really hard to change in the Final Draft title page. Just CAPS.Ģ.) “written by” should not have an capital W. My Final Draft friend said, “But titles are supposed to be underlined.” I said, “Get an old screenplay. Do not underline the title on your title page. Underlining was what your fifth grade teacher told you to do (if you’re my age) because underlining (long, long ago) told the typesetter that this stuff was meant to be in italics. It causes you to make three mistakes on your title page.ġ.) MOVIE TITLES ARE IN CAPS. I have spoken to my friends at Final Draft and they were unaware that the program did this.
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