Archive for January, 2003

US Screenplay Presentation

by Brian Forte
Friday, January 3rd, 2003

Standard screenplay presentation format. Ask about it on most mailing lists or web-sites or at most screen-writing seminars and you’ll get a variation on the following:

20 pound bond US Letter
Card stock covers
3-holes
Brads in top and bottom holes

Which is all well and good but overlooks two things.

  1. These requirements don’t apply outside the US film industry.

  2. Even for those marketing their work into the US, this shorthand advice is of no practical value.

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