I need a Microsoft Word Template for playwriting.
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Experience Level: Intermediate
General information for the business: I am a playwright
Description of support work: I need a Microsoft Word template to help me write plays and to print them into booklets.
The process is I usually decide on the number of characters and their names first and write a description of the scene where they find themselves.
So the template should ask me the names of my characters and then ask for the scene I should be able to add a character in the middle of the play as well.
The dialogue writing is the bulk of the work and I need to have some sort of function key assigned for each character e.g. CNTL F4 = JOHN and CNTL F5 = MARY and so on. It doesn't matter which key combination you use, as long as it is consecutive, so I can easily remember them as I write.
When I press the function key combination, the character's name should be typed in CAPS along with a TAB and the following text (the characters dialogue) should be indented as in the example I attach.
I also need to type in stage directions like (She moves as if to throw the book, but then changes her mind) This is always written in brackets and italics.
It needs to be printed out in two different formats.
1. Actors sheets.
A4 Portrait orientation, double spaced with a large margin for notes on the right hand side.
2. Publication booklet.
(This is the hard one)
The length of the play determines how many pages it runs to, either 20, 24 or 28. In the example I describe, I'll use the 20 page booklet, the others change accordingly.
Each set of 4, A5 pages printed in two frames on both sides of five A4 sheets of Horizontally orientated paper.
So, on the first page the left hand frame has Page 20 and the right has page 1, the other side of that sheet has page 2 on the left and page 19 on the right.
When each of the five pages are printed on both sides, a cover is added and then stapled to form an A5 booklet.
The sample I am sending has all the text flowing one to the next so that if you were to remove the formatting the script would make no sense. This is a bad way to do it because I can't edit the text once it is formatted
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Description of support work: I need a Microsoft Word template to help me write plays and to print them into booklets.
The process is I usually decide on the number of characters and their names first and write a description of the scene where they find themselves.
So the template should ask me the names of my characters and then ask for the scene I should be able to add a character in the middle of the play as well.
The dialogue writing is the bulk of the work and I need to have some sort of function key assigned for each character e.g. CNTL F4 = JOHN and CNTL F5 = MARY and so on. It doesn't matter which key combination you use, as long as it is consecutive, so I can easily remember them as I write.
When I press the function key combination, the character's name should be typed in CAPS along with a TAB and the following text (the characters dialogue) should be indented as in the example I attach.
I also need to type in stage directions like (She moves as if to throw the book, but then changes her mind) This is always written in brackets and italics.
It needs to be printed out in two different formats.
1. Actors sheets.
A4 Portrait orientation, double spaced with a large margin for notes on the right hand side.
2. Publication booklet.
(This is the hard one)
The length of the play determines how many pages it runs to, either 20, 24 or 28. In the example I describe, I'll use the 20 page booklet, the others change accordingly.
Each set of 4, A5 pages printed in two frames on both sides of five A4 sheets of Horizontally orientated paper.
So, on the first page the left hand frame has Page 20 and the right has page 1, the other side of that sheet has page 2 on the left and page 19 on the right.
When each of the five pages are printed on both sides, a cover is added and then stapled to form an A5 booklet.
The sample I am sending has all the text flowing one to the next so that if you were to remove the formatting the script would make no sense. This is a bad way to do it because I can't edit the text once it is formatted
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Hi,
I don't know Word well enough to know if what you're asking for is possible, but I was just thinking that if you assigned actual character names to the function keys, you would make it so this template would be limited to the one play. Just a thought.
SuePaul H.18 Oct 2017Could I then edit the template before each play to add or subtract characters?
Susan M.18 Oct 2017Hi Paul,
I'm not sure. Like I said, I don't know Word well enough to do this job. I just wanted to make this point so that if you find someone to do the job, you can have them incorporate this so that it is reusable as a template.
Sue
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