Using a screenplay planet, organize the beats or scene sequences for a movie script is a great way to organize your ideas. It helps you to place the events in exactly the right place in a place that the audience expects and will love to follow. Blake Snyder also adds actual scenes to the board as well. I strongly recommend that you, you buy his book, save the cat, and you'll see exactly how he does this. Although fun to play with, and I've used it to plan a movie script, it has one serious disadvantage. It gets very cluttered.
There are pieces of paper pinned to the board all over the place. So I use a demonstration software To organize the beads into a structure that I can drill deeper down into adding more and more detail as I wish. The software I'm going to use is called prexy calm and it's normally used to make project sales or marketing presentations on both on or offline. It lends itself very well to the purpose of screenplay planning interpreting.com into your browser. Click Get Started. We're going to use the basic.
I'm scrolling down with the mouse will continue with a free account. We complete the details on name, email address. and password. Click on not a robot and create a free account and click on new presentation. You can see here, if you scroll down, that there are many templates to choose from, for different purposes, all of the templates and need different skill levels to manipulate them. So I'm going to choose the very first one, because it's for a novice.
Click on the presentation, click Use this presence. Sorry, click use this template and it will quickly open up for us to work on. The first thing I do is to change the title by simply clicking in the box and writing whatever we like. Either screenplay planner or the title of a possible movie, delete any text that we don't require. At the beginning, we only need one topic circle. So I'm going to right click on the others and simply delete them from the drop down menu.
I'm going to change the background. Here's a cork board image, click on the image to be inserted with little wall, there it is over need to do now is to place a topic circle in a better position. We're going to take this initial topic, and we're going to duplicate it because this topic in fact is one of our beats. We know we have 15 beats, so we're going to copy this by right clicking under the drop down menu clicking copy. Now we can't use the mouse to paste on this platform, we simply click Ctrl V. If we keep keep hitting Ctrl V again and again, we'll keep reproducing the same topic circle when we have 15 beats which will look identical We need to change the color to our liking and also to change the titles inside the circles. Because if you remember, our software planning board is going to look like this is separated into three acts with page numbers for each beat, and the beat is identified within the topic circles.
Once the beat circles are complete, you have all the main events and items that you need for a great movie script at your fingertips. You can refer to them and add to them anytime at all. The process and assumes that the key events that are necessary for any purchasable Hollywood script are there in the right place. In the next video, you'll learn how to complete each beat with the details from your movie script.