Script Dept (In-App Subscription)

Huge time saver.

Save hours every work week with MovieSlate’s Script Dept. Easily log data while lining a script, with no need to enter/transcribe data later. When production wraps for the day, MovieSlate promptly generates script reports and emails them to your distribution list. Loaded with time-saving features, MovieSlate helps you work faster and smarter than pencil+paper or other digital solutions. After all, time is money.

Familiar, smarter markup tools.

Draw on script PDFs with our familiar (yet digital) pen and eraser tools. With a single tap, our smart tools create tidy tramlines and legible circled headers. Copy+paste tramline text headers from page to page. Erase tramline segments and draw squiggly replacements with an Apple Pencil. Change ink color and thickness quickly. Mark handwritten or typed annotations as private, so they’re auto-excluded when sharing marked scripts. Use our stopwatch to log “performance laps” of continuous shots that don’t cut between takes. Easily find/navigate pages using search, bookmarks, thumbnails, and scrolling.

Apple Pencil support.

An Apple Pencil can speed script markup/lining, making handwritten notes more legible.

Monitor Camera Video (on iPad).

Connect to a Teradek Cube over WiFi, and monitor streamed video from its camera in a moveable panel that floats above the script page. Learn more

Automatic Dialogue Highlighting.

MovieSlate can scan your script and automatically highlight character names, dialogue, and parentheticals. Let MovieSlate assign highlight colors or choose your own. Toggle highlighting for each character to isolate and emphasize dialogue appearance. This non-destructive highlighting can be edited, toggled, and excluded from your lined script reports— giving you full control of the feature. Download Sample Script

Automatic Dialogue Numbering.

Not only can MovieSlate automatically highlight character dialogue, it can also automatically number your script’s dialogue blocks. Add or remove numbers. Choose your typeface, font size and color. Lock the numbers on the script page so you never accidentally select a dialogue number instead of your markup and annotations. Choose where to place the numbering: to the left of the character dialogue, to the right, or in the right margin of the page.

21st Century Breakdowns

Now MovieSlate can scan your Script PDF to identify and import Scenes, Acts, Characters, Story Days, Time of Day. You can even ask MovieSlate to estimate page counts and scene running times. Enter scene descriptions and add or remove ruler lines to visually separate scenes.

Know what’s Logged and Unshot

At a glance, see which scenes have been logged (in green) in MovieSlate, and which scenes have yet to be shot (in blue).

It's Elementary

Quickly enter scene descriptions and add color-coded breakdown elements: Cast, Extras, Props, Costumes, Hair, Makeup, FX, Stunts, Vehicles, Animals, Set / Location information and Notes.

Easily highlight scene elements in the script and add them to your breakdown reports.