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Initial thoughts about using Story
Aug 9, 2010 9:38 AM
I’ve been using Story for a couple of weeks and I thought I’d share some initial impressions with the Story team. First, I’d just like to say I really like Story. I’m using it for a second draft of a spec movie script.
I like:
- Hitting ENTER twice and choosing the appropriate script element – very convenient
- The outline view as it eliminates the need to scroll through a script
- The colour coding of characters in the outline view, again, very convenient
- The ability to export to a number of different formats
- Organising relevant documents into projects
- Adding comments to scripts
- Auto-completion of characters and locations – very useful for keeping track of locations and minor characters (and giving them meaningful names)
- Accessing scripts/projects via a desktop application or browser.
My wish list of features includes:
- More flexibility – the ability to change/edit certain script writing conventions (see my earlier post about (CONT’D))
- Dual dialog - although I rarely use this, I can’t say I won’t in the future
The big feature I would really like to see, and is probably too much to ask for, is a visual story/plot development tool. In which it is possible plan and rearrange scenes and beats. And when the story is complete the slug lines are transferred to the script. The image below is a basic mock-up.
Have a blissful stay with Story!
