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[emoKid]

So my teacher was talking about stage play formats, and he said he prefers the Dramatists Guild's format.
He said he'll take the format Storyist uses.

I was just wondering how much does the format style matter? Apparently the "Dramatists Guild Modern Stageplay" is the hip thing?

Our school has a copy of fd, so I imported the format into Storyist, and it doesn't look more appealing to me. The main difference is that the Action element is more squished in the middle, which I think makes it harder to notice the Character. The Scene Description is also italicized, but I don't think that matters...

I don't really care about the formatting details at the moment, but I was wondering what is done in the professional area and if they really care about all of it?


Here's a side-by-side comparison...

[Steve]

emoKid, on Sep 4 2009, 08:06 AM, said:

So my teacher was talking about stage play formats, and he said he prefers the Dramatists Guild's format.
He said he'll take the format Storyist uses.

I was just wondering how much does the format style matter? Apparently the "Dramatists Guild Modern Stageplay" is the hip thing?

Our school has a copy of fd, so I imported the format into Storyist, and it doesn't look more appealing to me. The main difference is that the Action element is more squished in the middle, which I think makes it harder to notice the Character. The Scene Description is also italicized, but I don't think that matters...

I don't really care about the formatting details at the moment, but I was wondering what is done in the professional area and if they really care about all of it?


Here's a side-by-side comparison...
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Hi emoKid,

Thanks for the post. Don't know how important DG format is, or whether it is a regional thing or not. I'll do some digging, though, and probably offer a DG template in a future release.

-Steve