BlackSlate for Writers
Hand in a draft that is ready to sell. See the act that runs long, the lead who drops out of the second act and the brand you cannot clear before your producer does. Then send it out as a correctly paged PDF in A4 or US Letter, or straight back into Final Draft.
Hand in a draft that is ready to sell
See the act that runs long, the lead who drops out of the second act and the brand you cannot clear before your producer does. Then send it out as a correctly paged PDF in A4 or US Letter, or straight back into Final Draft.
Screenshots of BlackSlate for Writers showing The structure spine, following you through the script.
Feature by feature
Everything in the editor
Structure Against Your Length
Acts and turning points drawn down the margin at the page count you are writing to, so you know where the midpoint falls before you write it.
Every Character at a Glance
A face beside every cue, and each character's share of the dialogue, so a lead who vanishes for 20 pages is obvious.
Beats You Place Yourself
Mark a beat on any line and it is checked against where that shape of script usually puts it.
Scenes You Can Move
Drag scenes to reorder them, or omit one and keep its number.
A Bank for Your Lines
Keep the lines you have overheard or invented until they find a scene.
Music That Plays as You Read
Tag a track to a passage and the reader hears it as they reach it, fading as the last line leaves the screen.
Final Draft Import
Bring your existing scripts in with their formatting intact.
Draft Comparison
Compare any draft against the page in front of you and see exactly what changed.
A4 or US Letter
Format to either page size and switch without touching your text.
Questions writers ask
It opens by invitation from a producer who has you on their slate. Open accounts are coming; join the writers' list to hear first.
Yes. Final Draft files import with their formatting, so you can carry on where you left off.
Yes, and you can switch between them without touching your text. Our guide to A4 and US Letter explains when to use each.
Only the people you choose to share them with. Producers see the drafts you share with them, and Preview Links expire when you say.
No. Some features send a script to our AI provider to produce a result, such as a draft comparison, under terms that do not allow training on it. See our Privacy Policy.
Hear first when open accounts arrive
Until then, writers join through the producer who has them on a slate.