Description
Based on Blake Snyder's popular book, "Save the Cat! The Last Screenwriting Book
You’ll Ever Need," this story-structure screenwriting software will help you:
• Develop a powerful Logline and Title
• Choose one of 10 Genres, each with recognizable traits that will help you write
something that is “the same, only different”: Monster in the House, Golden Fleece, Out of
the Bottle, Dude with a Problem, Rites of Passage, Buddy Love, Whydunit, The Fool
Triumphant, Institutionalized, and Superhero
• Fill in a Blake Snyder Beat Sheet with the 15 key beats for every screenplay:
Opening Image, Theme Stated, Set-up, Catalyst, Debate, Break into Two, B Story, Fun
and Games, Midpoint, Bad Guys Close In, All Is Lost, Dark Night of the Soul, Break into
Three, Finale, and Final Image
• Use “The Board,” the fabled device seen in executive offices all over Hollywood,
which allows you to "see" your movie before you begin writing. The Board is broken
down into four rows, 10 cards per row for a total of 40 — a good average count for the
number of beats in the average movie
• Create 40 moveable, numbered, color-coded scene cards that include:
• Heading – such as “INT. JOE’S APARTMENT – DAY.”
• Description – such as “Mary tells Joe she wants a divorce.”
• Notes – such as “important that Joe doesn’t reveal everything he knows.”
• Conflict – the >< indicates opposing forces
• Emotional Change – the +/- which indicates how the tone evolves during the
scene. (Just like every good movie, every good scene has to have clear conflict and some
emotional shift from start to finish.)
• Set-ups and Pay-offs – Set-ups and pay-offs show "growth" and "change" as a
hero progresses through the story. Keep track of your set-ups and pay-offs — and even
move them around from scene card to scene card
• Print cards in 3 different sizes, import and export screenplays
• Discover an exclusive Save the Cat! Tutorial, plus a constant stream of tips,
advice, and tricks of the trade — and registered entry to the Members-Only section of
Blake Snyder's website.
"Save the Cat" is just one of many ironclad rules for making your ideas more marketable and your script more satisfying — and saleable.
New to Version 2.0:
• Mac OS X Version 10.2 or higher and Windows® Vista and XP with Service Pack 2 compatible
• Automatic transfer of your 15 beats to 15 scene cards on The Board
• An expanded Save the Cat!™ Tutorial based on both of Blake’s #1 best-selling books
• Lots of new prompts and expanded genre definitions and elements
• Big-size view of beats
• Ability to move between big-size beats and scene card views with Previous>> and Next>> buttons
• Expanded scene cards with new Dialog section
• Ability to set the total number of pages for your screenplay from 4 to 250 with the Board reconfiguring automatically
• Ability to import your Final Draft® screenplay into scene cards and export your cards into a Final Draft® screenplay
• Logline, Beat Sheet and Board with scene cards for Spider-Man 2
About the Author and Creator
In his 20-year career as a screenwriter and producer, Blake Snyder has sold dozens of
scripts, including co-writing Blank Check, which became a hit for Disney, and Nuclear
Family for Steven Spielberg -- both million-dollar sales. Named "one of Hollywood's
most successful spec screenwriters," Blake continues to write and sell screenplays, most
recently a 2006 sale of a horror-comedy that will be in theatres in 2007.
His book, Save the Cat! The Last Book on Screenwriting You'll Ever Need, was
published in May, 2005, and is now in its sixth printing. It has prompted "standing room
only" appearances by Blake in New York, London, Chicago, and at the 2006
Screenwriting Expo in Los Angeles.
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