alterlab-cdm-screenwriter

Industry-standard screenplay formatting requires Courier 12pt font, slug lines, action blocks, and transitions. This Skill enforces these layout rules while drafting scenes, ensuring your script meets professional page flow expectations.

A beat sheet structures your narrative into key dramatic moments like act breaks and midpoint reversals. This Skill builds 15-point or 40-beat sheets, mapping the core dramatic question and climax to structure your feature film effectively.

Writing dialogue with subtext involves refining rhythm, economy, and trimming exposition. This Skill polishes your scenes by revising dialogue to ensure distinctive character voices and underlying subtext, removing unnecessary exposition while maintaining narrative conflict.

You can use this Skill for both short films and feature films. It supports scene-by-scene drafting with clear POV, conflict, and turning points, ensuring visual storytelling and proper formatting regardless of your project's length.

Developing a premise requires extracting the core dramatic question and defining your protagonist, antagonist, and central conflict. This Skill helps test visual potential and theme, creating a character bible and premise lock before you draft scenes.