Movie Outline was created by a produced writer to take the complexity out of the screenwriting process.
Its intuitive design is based on the principle of "step-outlining" which allows you to develop your story, characters and structure scene by scene before using the industry-standard formatter to write your script. It has a host of powerful features including tools to develop characters and track their story arc throughout your project.
Dialogue Spotlight helps you create consistent voices and Story Tasks makes keeping track of ideas, notes and plot lines a breeze. Movie Outline comes with an extensive Reference Library of movie breakdowns that allow you to simultaneously compare the progress and pacing of your own story with outlines and analyses of successful Hollywood movies such as Die Hard, When Harry met Sally and Spider-Man. What's more, you can export your own projects to your library and purchase more reference plug-ins from the online store.
Before you begin your story, take a little time to create fresh characters rather than stereotypes that feel like people we've seen before. Think about how your characters look, where they're from, and what motivates them. Movie Outline helps you achieve this through its Character Profile Wizard and story arc feature for step by step character development.
Creating your outline is easy. Simply write the title and content of your step and use the console to add a new step which then appears in your Outline List on the right of the screen. You can highlight steps in any color you want and merge multiple steps into a single step. The console also allows you to navigate steps, delete steps and rearrange your outline. You can choose the font, size, style and alignment you wish from the toolbar or from the handy right-click Contextual Menu which also has editing and advanced search options.
Organizing your scenes for a rewrite is easy with Movie Outline's merge feature and drag 'n' drop index cards, and you can analyze your story's pacing and emotional impact using FeelFactors to display your narrative's high's and low's in a color-coded graph.
Movie Outline has integrated structuring tools to color-code your narrative into acts, sequences or chapters. PowerView displays your outline in a colored list which can expand and collapse the user-content, or reference content, for each step. You can even view multi-keyword search results throughout your project. Click the screenshot to see SmartSearch in action.
Movie Outline truly is a one-stop shop for writers, providing everything you need to turn your idea into a professional screenplay.
