"The mole digs instinctively in a certain direction."

Jean-Luc Godard:
Masculine Feminine

Film Script is a smart markup "system", a markdown variant, if you like. It enables us to write screenplays in disctraction-free mode, using a lightweight, FREE text-editor.

Screenplays have a firm convention in document layout. In Hollywood it is a must. Although we don't give a dime about Hollywood, the tradition of the screenplay document layout is a great thing. When you write a screenplay, you need this formatting. You need a screenplay-like structure :)

Unlike in the typewriter era, today, if you want to write a screenplay, you'll be supposed to buy a commercial screenwriting app. But thanks to film_script (and first of all, thanks to Fountain), we can reclaim the freedom of the age when writers used typewriters.

As to Jean-Luc Godard, he wrote the screenplay for À bout de souffle by hand, and used all kinds of creative notation techniques later in his life, from which we can learn that the point is recording your vision in the most effective way – of which using the industry standard screenplay format is just one good option.

Writing in Film Script

Writing in Film Script means: applying, as you write, the simple set of formatting rules, which Film Script is.

Film Script provides you with vision-first and distraction-free writing sessions, as if you were using a lightweight, superfast typrwriter. A beautiful one.

Film Script, aka film_script, gives you the freedom to use just about ANY plain text editor, like Mousepad or Xed (see: simple text editors).

As a great bonus, we can use Writer (Libreoffice Writer)! At any point of your screenplay writing, you can change for Writer, the most powerful writing tool on the planet, while you can also work, parallelly, in a Simple Text Editor, too, if that's what you want.

the film_script data format

During conversion from film_script_i or film_script_h to another format, there is an interim data format of film_script. This can be kept as an XML or HTML5 file, and can be used as a universal film script (screenwriting) format.
With its clean structure, it offers easy ways for production-wide use, for breaking down the script and storing its elements in a Mariadb database, for example. This XML / HTML5 format we call the "film_scriptx" and the "film_script5" formats, respectively, and in the future we will use the .fscx and the .fsc5 extensions.