Hartismere School

Est. 1451. An outstanding coeducational secondary school & sixth form college and England's first academy

Home Login

Understanding the Formatting of a Screenplay (and Why It All Matters)


Most filmmakers know scripts follow a very particular format, but do they know why they do?

Explore...

Download 9 of the 10 Screenplays Nominated for the 2017 Oscars Right Now

Documentary: making of Do the Right Thing

Sarah Polley on Stories We Tell | Film Independent at LACMA

DO THE RIGHT: THING ALL ABOUT FORM

Captain fantastic scene (Bill of rights)

Do The Right Thing BTS - Part 3 (1989) A Spike Lee Joint Movie HD

Spielberg: How to Introduce Characters

Captain fantastic Christian song police

10 Best Uses of Color of All Time

How To Do A Plot Twist

New...

Computer Science

Film post-production explained

Sixth Form Course Information

How Ofcom is helping children to be safer online – a guide for parents

Pupil Premium Strategy Statement

Expressionism

Online safety newsletters

Joint letter from Ofqual and UCAS to students, summer 2025

Discover...

Screenplay Film Studies GCE Videos ZEN GCSE YouTube Productions Results Trips Cinema Short Film American Cinema Editing Crashcourse Post-Production Revision Rear Window LMC Prospectus Ofcom Coursework The Guardian

Uh-oh - we were unable to load our website on your browser so we're showing you a plain HTML version.

We use many features found in modern browsers and regrettably yours seems incompatible.

However this legacy version contains (very, very nearly) all the same content. Each page is rendered on our server and doesn't rely on any browser features except the odd font. It doesn't even need Javascript or fancy CSS. It's like being in 1995!

Your browser is reporting itself to us as Mozilla/5.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko; compatible; ClaudeBot/1.0; +claudebot@anthropic.com). Please consider updating your browser to make the most of our website.

If you would like to try our proper website again - you can do so here...