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Structure your story the Save the Cat! way using Blake Synder's method and make your story resonate. Named “one of Hollywood’s most successful spec screenwriters," Blake Synder has developed this Software based on his best-selling Save The Cat! books.
- Windows ® Windows 7/Windows Vista/Windows XP w/ Service Pack 2 1 GB RAM 50 MB of available hard drive CD-ROM drive Macintosh® Mac OS Version 10.5.8 or higher 512 MB RAM 50 MB of available hard drive CD-ROM drive
In his 20-year career as a screenwriter and producer, Blake Snyder sold dozens of scripts, including co-writing Blank Check, which became a hit for Disney, and Nuclear Family for Steven Spielberg — both million-dollar sales.
Named “one of Hollywood’s most successful spec screenwriters,” Blake sold his most recent screenplay in 2009. His book, Save the Cat!® The Last Book on Screenwriting You’ll Ever Need, was published in May, 2005, and is now in its eighteenth printing. It prompted “standing room only” appearances by Blake in New York, London, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, Vancouver, Toronto, Barcelona, and Beijing — along with numerous sold-out workshops in Los Angeles, where he was also a STAR Speaker at Screenwriting Expos 6 & 7.
Apparently it is not quite the last book on screenwriting you’ll ever need, as the eagerly awaited sequel, Save the Cat!® Goes to the Movies: The Screenwriter’s Guide to Every Story Ever Told, was published in October, 2007 — shooting to #1 in the Screenwriting, Screenplay, and Movies History and Criticism categories on Amazon.com.
Blake’s third book, Save the Cat!® Strikes Back: More Trouble for Screenwriters to Get Into… And Out Of, was published in November, 2009. Blake’s method has become the “secret weapon” of many development executives, managers, and producers for its precise, easy, and honest appraisal of what it takes to write and develop stories that resonate.
Save the Cat!®The Last Story Structure Software You’ll Ever Need has codified this method in an easy to use CD-Rom. Blake taught at Chapman, UCLA, Vanderbilt, and the Beijing Film Academy. His book is the basis of screenwriting classes at many major universities in the U.S. and Canada. Blake was a member of the Writers Guild of America, west. Blake passed away suddenly on August 4, 2009, but he lives on in his films and his books, in the advice that will never grow old, with the spirit that will continue to thrive and inspire. His story resonates with all who loved him, and your stories will resonate thanks to his love for you. How to Train Your Dragon (DreamWorks, 2010) was dedicated to Blake.
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Features
- Develop a powerful Logline and Title.
- Choose one of 10 Genres, each with recognizable traits that will help you write something that is “the same, only different”: Monster in the House, Golden Fleece, Out of the Bottle, Dude with a Problem, Rites of Passage, Buddy Love, Whydunit, The Fool Triumphant, Institutionalized, and Superhero
- Fill in a Blake Snyder Beat Sheet with the 15 key beats for every screenplay: Opening Image, Theme Stated, Set-up, Catalyst, Debate, Break into Two, B Story, Fun and Games, Midpoint, Bad Guys Close In, All Is Lost, Dark Night of the Soul, Break into Three, Finale, and Final Image
- Use The Board, the fabled device seen in executive offices all over Hollywood, which allows you to "see" your movie when you create moveable, numbered, color-coded scene cards before you begin writing. The Board is broken down into four rows, 10 cards per row for a total of 40 (though you can add more) — a good average count for the number of beats in the average movie.
- NEW WITH 3.0: New User Interface – Everything’s in one window: Title and Logline, the Beat Sheet, the Board, the Litter Box, and a new Notes Corkboard. Size, expand, or hide sections as you want to.
- Choose between 4 font sizes.
- The Beats and Beat Cards – The scene cards that are automatically created for the 15 beats remain linked to the beat, so if you change the description for the beat, the description in the card changes—and vice versa. Plus, you can use these additional, optional beat cards on the Board from Save the Cat!® Strikes Back: 3 Set-Up Cards – one each for “At Home,” “At Work,” and “At Play”; Debate – “Home” and “Work”; Fun and Games – 4 cards, alternating between B Story and Fun and Games; “Internal” and “External” cards for Bad Guys Close In; 5 Finale cards for the elements of Blake’s Five-Point Finale: “Gathering the Team,””Executing the Plan,” “The High Tower Surprise,” “Dig Deep Down,” and “The Execution of the New Plan.”
- The Board – Change the size both horizontally and vertically. Scroll both horizontally and vertically. Pin cards anywhere.
- File Formats – STC! 3.0 files are fully compatible between Windows, Mac, iPhone, and iPad. No need to export and import—just copy the file.
- New Corkboard Notes Section – Attach nearly any kind of file: photos, PDFs, sound files, video files, spreadsheets—you can even highlight text and images in a Web page and drag and drop them here. Characters – Add a list of characters with gender, age, description, and more. Link attachments to characters. Drag and drop characters onto scene cards.
- Locations – Add a list of locations. Link attachments, like photos or maps. Drag and drop a location onto a scene card.
- Scene Cards – List View: View your cards chronologically; filter the list by color code or by character and/or location. Page Count – Now up to 1,000 pages (for all you novelists!)
- Script Formatting – Improved interface for typing the script for each scene (exportable to Final Draft to polish it up)
- Automatic Update Notification – Whenever there’s a new version.
- Chapter 3 (“The Transformation Machine”) and The Greenlight Checklist with 50 checkable items — from Blake’s third book, Save the Cat!® Strikes Back Beats and the Board from a major 2010 hit Updated Tutorial, New Movie Examples for Genres and Beats, Added Tips & Tactics
- Save the Cat!® Cloud – Choose to use our Cloud to place your file into your own personal queue from which you can download it to any device or computer.
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