Q&A for How to Write a Screenplay Synopsis

I recommend making sure you know your idea. Write exactly what you want to your script to be about, and really understand your characters as well. To start, write everything out in paragraph form, noting things such as locations that you would like to include. Once you've written it all out, you can start to to transfer your ideas and and put them on paper using the correct formatting.

I recommend using Final Draft, because they are always up to date and have great customer service. The software is also industry standard and very easy to use.

Writing a spec script involves writing a new episode to a television show that is already on TV. The process requires understanding all of the characters and their individual voices so that you can carry on the show from where it left off. Many screenwriters have a couple of specs written, as they can help with your own original writing.

A person who can control the audience's emotions, and gives them pleasure through his creation.

The job of a director is to oversee all aspects of production. They make all the creative (and sometimes business) decisions to end up with the result based on his or her vision. Imagine the cast, crew, and everything as the canvas and the paintbrush and the director is the painter/artist.

Any script-writing software will work. Some examples are Celtx, Rawscripts, Dubscript and Writer Duet.

Get other people to read it. Other people's opinions are good, especially if they don't at first know what the story is about.

Register your synopsis with the US Patent and Copyright office through a company such as Legal Zoom. Although your creative work is copyrighted at the time of writing, enforcement of a copyright infringement will require an attorney. Registering will allow the author to recover legal costs.