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We are planning to create a screenwriting plugin for the Mac version of NovaMind 5, which will be available after the initial launch of the product. There are currently no plans to have screenwriting capabilities in the Windows version of NovaMind 5.
The video below is created based on the NovaMind 4 version of the screenwriter, but the functionality planned for version 5 is much the same as what is shown here.
If you purchase a NovaMind 5 Platinum license key, it will work in NovaMind 4 Platinum too, so you can use that for your screenplays until the NovaMind 5 version is released.
What does the Screenwriting Module do?
Many professionals in the live theatre, movie and TV industries already use Mind Mapping and brainstorming techniques to generate and develop story ideas, characters, organize aspects of production and more – but what about something to help capture script ideas during those brainstorming and planning sessions? Without the ability to record these, ideas that have a lot of potential could miss being developed into something brilliant, or even worse, forgotten altogether.
NovaMind Platinum enables Scripts to be attached on any topic on the Mind Map to record all of your ideas – the character names, their dialogue, camera angles, scene settings and more! By simply clicking on the script button you can start typing your screenplay straight away while NovaMind formats your text according to the industry standards.
Screenwriters know that the formatting can mean the difference between acceptance or rejection. NovaMind makes this easy for you by handling the formatting while you, the writer, concentrate on the important stuff – the content!
"I just wanted to congratulate you on starting to address the need for a truly structured screenwriting program.
I am a professional movie director and screenwriter, and recently wrote the movie SYLVIA, starring Gwynneth Paltrow.
As a long-standing and very disillusioned user of other screenwriting applications, I am delighted to see the way NovaMind is going. I already structure all of my scripts in NovaMind and am enormously looking forward to using the app to do much more of the work on my next script".
John Brownlow,
Writer, Director and Producer
(also computer systems programmer, rocket scientist, interactive games writer,
music journalist and well-known street photographer)
Deep Fried Films, Inc.
You can write your complete movie/play/TV script in NovaMind and see the screenwplay take shape both from a visual storyboarding perspective and the actual screenplay. If required, reordering of parts of the screenplay is easy by grafting or reordering the branches with the portions of script attached to them.
NovaMind can also export your scripts into industry standard formats like RTF and FCF to be shared or imported into Movie Magic, Final Draft, text edit, MS Word and many other programs.
How do I write a screenplay in NovaMind?
The Screenwriting Interface
The beauty of a screenwriting program is that it will format your script while you think of the important things – like your script content. NovaMind formats according to movie industry standards for font, margin settings, line spacing, mores, continueds, section standards and page numbering.
Héctor Cabello Reyes has now become the most filmed screenwriter in Europe, with 3 feature movies in various stages of production. He uses NovaMind to write his screenplays, and also used NovaMind to write the screenplay with which he won the top prize for screenwriting in Europe, as he says:
"My modesty suffers when I say this, but the prize I got is the highest in France, and thus in Europe (for France is Europe’s biggest film market and producer).
It’s the "Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC) – Aide à l’Ecriture" (Cinema National Center’s Screenwriting Aid), which is a money-dotated prize, rewarding 5 screenplays among 80 scripts, all written by professional screenwriters, i.e. writers who already had a screenplay produced and released.
So it’s a very important prize, because it says that, this year, your screenplay’s among the best of all the professional ones.
And, well, among the 5 screenplays, mine got first, with jury’s congratulations ! I’m pretty proud of it !"
Héctor Cabello Reyes,
Screenwriter, Actor
For more information about H?©ctor, see his IMDB page
It’s intuitive interface will cycle through the script elements in logical sequence – action, character name, parenthetical, dialogue, transition, scene etc. By using your return and tab keys NovaMind will progress to the next logical element to follow what you have just typed.
Text completions save re-typing of character names, scene headings, int/ext. and time of day. All this is in addition to the standard features of NovaMind Platinum, for brainstorming, visual storyboarding, and planning.
It’s time for you to take your screenwriting to the next level!
{ 4 comments… read them below or add one }
I’m VERY interested in the Script-writing applications of Mind Mapping – especially if NovaMind continues to be the only MM-Software that addresses this. Is it possible to let me know when this functionality will be out with the latest version?
Thanks
Lex
AKA “Elvis Preset”
Reviewer of Audio, Visual, and Software Creative Resources
This will be a very high priority item once the v5.0 for Mac has been released.
I was very excited when I happened upon this article, as screenwriting is one of the key applications I plan to use mindmaps to work on. Imagine my disappointment upon noting that this feature won’t be supported on the Windows version of the software!
Is it possible that the Windows version of Novamind will receive this capability in the future, or is there a fundamental technical limitation in the Windows operating system that presents insurmountable complications, prohibiting any possible development of Scriptmapping capability indefinitely?
Kind regards,
Luke
As per the content of the article, we do not plan to develop a Windows version of the screenwriting plugin.