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If you’re interested in screenplays you might be interested in the fountain file format. It’s like markdown but for screenplays. It allows you to write screenpl
by rcarr 4y ago
If you’re interested in screenplays you might be interested in the fountain file format. It’s like markdown but for screenplays. It allows you to write screenplays in any text editor and I really like the simplicity of it; keeps me focussed on the task at hand. There’s a very cool app created by screenwriter John August (Big Fish, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory) called Highlander2 on the Mac App Store that is purpose built for it (technically it uses a custom file format called highland but it’s basically just a folder with a fountain file inside it and a few other files for editor settings, metadata and handling images if you have any). There’s also fountain extensions for VS Code, Sublime Text, Obsidian and probably other editors out there I don’t know of.
Links:
https://fountain.io/ https://fountain.io/
https://highland2.app/index.php https://highland2.app/index.php
- cocacola1 4y agoI've listened to John August's Scriptnotes podcast (fantastic and ad-free) but I haven't tried out Highland 2 yet. Will check it out – thanks!
- eye_street 4y agoGive Beat a look, too. https://kapitan.fi/beat/ https://kapitan.fi/beat/
- rcarr 4y agoThis is awesome, never heard of it until now. Seriously cool bit of software. Love that it uses Courier Prime as well, it's my default font everywhere!
- everybodyknows 4y agoPodcast interviews with screenwriters of major productions -- Die Hard, Terminator 2, Back To The Future -- Script Apart by Al Hoerner.
- kcartlidge 4y agoHighland 2 is fantastic. For sheer speed and beauty when writing it's great. The UI is like a much simplified but also much nicer (because of that) version of Scrivener (I own both). And the file format is easy to parse if you need to.