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Yeah there are all sorts of things people may not consider. Like I doubt the emacs plugin can lock pages, which totally rules it out for production. Once you’r
by smogcutter 7y ago
Yeah there are all sorts of things people may not consider. Like I doubt the emacs plugin can lock pages, which totally rules it out for production.
Once you’re in production you need to freeze page numbers, or you’d wind up with chaos. If the DP, producer and AD are talking about page 32, they need to know they’re talking about the same thing. Subsequent revisions just slot new pages into the script. If you add text to page 32, it doesn’t spill over to page 33 and change the numbering of the whole script. Instead you add page 32a, and every page that isn’t edited stays the same. An editor that can’t do that might be fine for personal work or first drafts, but it would never be adopted professionally.
- pwrplus1 7y agoPage locking is important, but it only happens at the very very end of the screenwriting process. I've proposed a slight addition to the Fountain syntax to allow forced page numbers on inserted page breaks, which would effectively allow page locking. Use this in conjunction with version control and you'd have everything you need for production.