Script Formatting Service for Film & TV @ $2.15 Per Page

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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. The script must have basic margins in place. If you typed your script using MS Word, email your script as an MS Word file 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 do not paginate properly.

If you don't know how to write your script in proper film or TV format, and you show it to a producer or literary agent, the message you are sending out is that you do not respect their time -- and you are not serious about screenwriting. The condition of your script is a reflection of your talent and standards. Many new screenwriters often ask how to get a literary agent but only some are willing to put in the effort to make their scripts look professionally formatted.

If you submit a TV script, our script formatter will check your script for TV script formatting errors and correct them where the script formatter deems necessary. Our script formatter 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 is not formatted correctly, 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.

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 or making grammar corrections because script formatting service is different from script proofreading service. After you get the formatted script back from us, you will need to proofread it.

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.

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 mention it's a day scene in your scene heading but you indicate that it's night time in your scene description, then we will correct the "time of day" discrepancy for that particular 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 script feedback service, proofreading, or rewriting sentences that the screenwriter wrote in novel book style, co-writing/condensing the story, creatively rewriting your dialogue/story, correcting grammar or broken English, or commenting on the script.

"Script Formatting" service is not the same as script editing, script consulting, proofreading service, or co-ghostwriting service. With script formatting service, you are paying for the service of having your script carefully read and checked for formatting errors.

Our script formatter will correct formatting errors where the script formatter deems is within the scope of our script formatting service. The script formatter will not double up as a script consultant, co-writer, or screenwriting coach to comment on the script or creatively rewrite the script to enhance the story or dialogue as that is not part of script formatting service.

This script formatting service does not include proofreading service --which is priced per word. If you need script proofreading service added on, please let us know so we can email you a price quote.

CLIENTS' COMMENTS 

"Thanks so much." - C.M.

"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.

"Got it, thanks! I appreciate all the help." - S.W.

"There is a solid understanding of standard formatting present." - R.V.

    HOW TO PLACE YOUR ORDER

• Please read the  "Acceptable File Types" listed below.
• Click the "Add to Cart: button.
• Click the blue "checkout" button to be taken to the "checkout page" and enter the total page count of your script in the "QTY" (quantity box) to total up the cost.
• Click the blue "checkout" button again to be taken to the payment page to enter your payment information.

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SCRIPT FORMATTING SERVICE RECAP

• ​We also format (revise) scene headings for continuity to make sure the same locations throughout your script are properly labelled.​
• Our script formatting service also includes us formatting certain text in all CAPS where needed.
• We will also delete any unneeded line spacings between elements and adjust margins where needed.
• If applicable, we will fix any improperly formatted dual dialogue, flashbacks, subtitling, parentheticals, V.O. vs. O.S., and chyrons.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR SCRIPT FOR FORMATTING

• Email your script to info@thescriptjoint as the file type of the screenwriting software you use -- not as a PDF file. 

ACCEPTABLE FILE TYPES TO SUBMIT​

• Celtx (online and desktop versions) -- laptop/computer users only. For Celtx online version, we will email you instructions to email us the "Collaborate" invite link to access your script(s). 
• Fade In
• Final Draft 7-12 (FDR) & (FDX)
• Movie Magic Screenwriter ​
• Writer Duet
• If you need pricing for script formatting service to be done on your Microsoft Word script file, email your MS Word script file to info@thescriptjoint.com so we can give it a look to determine the cost and turnaround time. Scripts that are typed using MS Word tend to have a high rate of incorrect margins and page breaks because it is a word processing software that is not designed for screenwriting.

ENABLING TRACKING FEATURE (REVISION MODE)

• If you want to easily track formatting changes in the script, make sure your screenwriting software has that feature available.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS & MORE

• Scripts must be in 12 point Courier type font and have basic margins in place.
• This script formatting service is for scripts that demonstrate a good grasp of the English language and basic script format. ​​
• Please don't email your script as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat). 
• 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 and editing 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 by us, and we will you issue a refund -- minus 10% since there is a fee to process a refund.

SCRIPT SWAPPING OPTION IS UNAVAILABLE​

• 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 service or any other custom work services with us -- and we have not worked on your script(s) -- meaning we have not read your script(s) or done any work on it -- should you want to swap out the scripts you have submitted, we will just issue you a refund, minus 10% of whatever amount you paid as there is a service fee to process a refund.