fo-script-aid: a screenwriting team

Plugin types: Script Writers.

Script Aid is the fuller of FilmOpen’s two screenwriting plugins: a team that develops a story with you and writes the screenplay into the project. A run of a pilot costs about USD 40 at the measure taken when it was built, depending on your models. Its lighter sibling is Script Aid Lite.

The team

A showrunner, a story architect and a character developer plan the story. One actor per principal character rehearses the key scenes, knowing only what that character knows at that point in the story. One screenwriter writes every scene. Independent reviewers read each scene: character, dialogue, dramaturgy, continuity and facts, the audience, and a blind judge.

All of the story’s memory lives in your project, so you can leave and come back.

Use it

1. Install and allow Script Aid in Settings → Plugins.
2. Open your project’s Workflow tab. Each row runs one step on the project, folder or scene the tab is open on, with what you type into it.
3. Each step ends in a proposal. Review it and press Apply, or leave it.

Each step asks for a text model on a platform you have set up: see the platforms.