SCRIPT FORMATTING SERVICE
We provide professional film and TV script formatting services for serious screenwriters and filmmakers. Get one round of script formatting service with us. We have formatted feature film and TV series scripts for clients who have gotten their scripts picked up by award-winning directors and producers -- as well as investors. Some of the producers' work include TV series and feature films for Lionsgate, Netflix, Universal Pictures, Disney, Sony Pictures, Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment and many more.
Our script formatting service entails our script formatter reading your script page by page to check for formatting errors you may have overlooked during your writing process. We will reformat (revise) flashbacks and phone conversation scenes if they are not written in proper industry script format. You will be in good hands with us. We have well over 7 years of industry experience formatting film and TV scripts for new screenwriters, including novel book writers who are crossing over to screenwriting.
Est. Turnaround Time: 7 business days for a script that is 120 pages or less.
An additional charge may apply if we notice that the script has a heavy amount of formatting errors, which requires more time and work to tidy it up. In that scenario, we will let you know the additional cost. Once you agree to the additional cost, we will email you a personalized payment link to submit payment. Scripts that have excessive formatting errors or exceed 120 pages may take more than 7 business days.
This script formatting service is only for scripts that have been typed using a professional screenwriting software -- not scripts typed using Microsoft Word. If you typed your script using MS Word, email your script as an MS Word or Rich Text File (RTF) to info@thescriptjoint.com to get a price quote on how much it would cost for us to reformat your entire script. Among other things, scripts that are typed using MS Word or Google Docs don't paginate properly, so they would need script formatting service.
If your script is not formatted to industry standard, and you pitch it to a producer, it will make a statement about who you are as a screenwriter. Producers will think that you are inexperienced if they see that your script is not properly formatted.
The condition of your script is a reflection of your talent and standards. Many new screenwriters often ask us how to get a literary agent, but only some are willing to put in the effort to make their scripts look professional and presentable. Screenwriting programs do not have artificial intelligence built in to read and understand the scenes in your script. For example, if you formatted your flashback scenes incorrectly, or in a confusing manner, your screenwriting software will not know to flag your formatting error. So, consider using our script formatting service. Our script formatter will go line by line and check your script for formatting errors and correct them where the script formatter sees fit.
We will also check the font style, font size, line spacings between elements, and format words in capital letters where needed. Similarly, if you formatted a certain word in your script in lowercase when it should be in uppercase, we will correct that formatting error for you.
Correcting formatting errors is also known as script reformatting. For example, if your scene heading has incorrect left and right margins -- or it is not written in proper format/sequence, it means you did not format (write) your scene headings according to the industry format of how a film or TV scene heading should be in a script. When you incorrectly format a scene heading, it can mean many things. It can mean that you wrote it in the wrong order, and/or you put wrong things in the scene heading.
With this script formatting service, you are paying to have your script carefully examined page by page. And if there are formatting errors, we will correct them. We also check for inconsistencies in the way you format your scene headings for the same locations in the script. For instance, if in one scene heading you indicate that a certain character is living in an apartment, but later in the story, for no apparent reason, you indicate that the same character is living in a house, then we will correct the scene heading accordingly. This form of script formatting is called formatting for continuity.
Our script formatter will use discretion when doing the formatting check to determine what can be corrected, and what is outside the scope of script formatting service. For instance, the script formatter will NOT be proofreading the script or correcting grammar errors because proofreading a script is not the same as formatting a script. After you get the formatted script back from us, you will need to proofread it.
Proofreading Service is an Additional Cost
If you need proofreading service added on, let us know so we can give you a price quote and turnaround time for proofreading service. We can easily bundle both services (formatting + proofreading) into one e-invoice and email you a personalized payment link to make your purchase.
More About Our Script Formatting Service
Script formatting service also involves us revising your scene heading, where we deem necessary, to make sure it matches with the circumstance in the scene. As an example, if you indicate it's a day scene in your scene heading but then say it's nighttime in your scene description, then we will correct the "time of day" discrepancy for that scene.
Our script formatter will check each scene heading, scene description, dialogue section, parenthetical, use of V.O. vs. O.S., character name, use of text over a scene, use of subtitling, margins, and line spacings between elements such as scene headings and dialogue.
This script formatting service does NOT include commenting on the script (script feedback service), proofreading for typos, rewriting sentences that the screenwriter wrote in novelistic style, rewriting to condense the story, or fixing grammar errors.
OUR CLIENTS' COMMENTS
"I know I'll always need your services. Worth every penny. Thank you and the team so much. For sure I'll be back" - RGW
"These are all wonderful. Just wonderful. Every thing is so neat and pretty. You do such a great job. Also, I liked the way you did the side by side columns when characters are talking at the same time. " - D.H.
"Awesome, thank you so much! " - M.R.
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"Got it, thanks! I appreciate all the help." - S.W.
"There is a solid understanding of standard formatting present." - R.V.
HOW TO ORDER OUR SCRIPT FORMATTING SERVICE
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SCRIPT FORMATTING SERVICE RECAP
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HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR SCRIPT FOR FORMATTING SERVICE
- Email your script to info@thescriptjoint as the file type of the screenwriting software you use -- not as a PDF file.
- Scripts must be in 12-point Courier type font.
- Scripts must have proper margins.
- This script formatting service is for scripts that demonstrate a good grasp of the English language and basic script format.
- If for any reason you change your mind after placing your order, and we have not started reading it to do a format check, we can issue you a refund, minus 10% of the price you paid since there is a fee to process a refund.
- If we have already started working on your script, which includes reading your script to check it for formatting error, we won't be able to issue you a refund. All custom work services such as script formatting performed on scripts are ineligible for a refund.
- Please don't narrow your margins or reduce the font size of the text in your script. Doing so will result in your script getting rejected, and we will you issue a refund -- minus 10% since there is a fee to process a refund.
Will Need to Be Emailed to us at info@thescriptjoint.com for Pricing and Estimated Turnaround Time.
- Scripts that are typed using MS Word s tend to have a higher rate of incorrect margins and page breaks.
- Our script formatting service does NOT include proofreading service, which is priced per word.
- After using our script formatting service, if you want to make updates (minor or major) to your formatted script such as adding more dialogue, replacing word(s), deleting word(s), or correcting your own typos in the formatted script, you would need to resubmit your formatted script for a 2nd round of script formatting service -- which is an additional cost. We do NOT do script updates for free unless they are minor typos that we created.
- Any typos or grammar errors that exist in your original script prior to it getting formatting service done with us will NOT be corrected since our script formatting service does not include free proofreading service.
This file resend (re-email) service fee is priced at $15 per formatted script file attachment that you want re-emailed to you. If 25 calendar days have passed since the day you paid for our script formatting service, you are not eligible to use this file resend service. We do not keep any of your formatted script files stored with us indefinitely. This "file resend service fee" rule also applies to any of our script editing, proofreading, and/or formatting services that you purchased via our e-invoice method.
This file resend service fee is non-refundable. If you don't know how to download or open file attachments, please do not use this service. We are not responsible for any technical issues you may encounter with your computer, laptop, tablet, software, or your email service provider. It is the customer's responsibility to be tech savvy and know how to properly keep their computer, laptop, tablet, computer software, and email fully functional. We are not responsible for your lack of fundamental knowledge of computers, software, or email functionality. We are not a tech support service provider. Therefore, we cannot troubleshoot your personal computer, laptop, tablet, software, or email app.
- Please be advised that we are not responsible for the way your computer, laptop, tablet, software, or email functions.
- It is the customer's responsibility to read the user manual that came with their computer, laptop, tablet, and software.
- If you don't know how to use a software on your computer, laptop, or tablet, please contact the company that sold you your computer, laptop, or tablet.
- We cannot troubleshoot your computer, laptop, tablet, email app, or any computer programs. That is not a service we offer.
- We cannot email your script files to 3rd parties on your behalf. You must use your own email to send out your scripts.
- All our custom work services such as script editing, formatting, and proofreading services are final and ineligible for a refund.
- It is the customer's responsibility to properly store their script files and any file attachments that were emailed to them.
- We cannot store your digital script files indefinitely. If your computer happens to crash and you want your formatted script file re-emailed to you, there is a service charge of $15 per script file to be re-emailed to you. Please read the "file resend" service description for more information.
- It is the customer's responsibility to safely store their script files or any file attachments they receive from us.
- It is the customer's responsibility to know how to properly use their computer, laptop, tablet, software, external hard drives, and email.
- It is the customer's responsibility to know how to upload, download, and open file attachments.
- If you have any issues with your computer, laptop, tablet, software, or email service provider, you'll need to contact their tech support team.
- To prevent interruptions in our project pipeline, which can affect time already reserved for other clients' projects, after you submit your script(s) for formatting services with us -- and we have not read your script(s) -- should you want to swap out the scripts you have submitted, we will just issue you a refund, minus 10% of the amount you paid as there is a service fee to process a refund. You can then place a new order and submit the new script.
