Scene construction, dialogue and script formats for film and television writers.
A 16-episode K-drama is built on pillars at episodes 4, 8, 12 and 16, paired episodes, and an ending hook every hour. The structure, the romance and plot lines, and how it compresses to 8 or 12.
Korean dramas are writer-led, pitched with a planning document and sample episodes, and formatted in S# scenes in HWP. What international writers need to know about the system, the format and realistic routes in.
A character design brief gives an artist role, silhouette, signature features, palette and expression range, not backstory. Template plus a filled example.
In a scroll comic the reader sets the speed, so pacing comes from panel height, the gap between panels and where text sits. Rules and example sequences.
AI screenplay coverage returns a synopsis, notes and sometimes a score within minutes for $0 to $100 a script. What the reports contain, where they are reliable, and how they compare with human readers.
A graphic novel script is a full comic script at book length: plan acts in pages, budget pages per chapter, then write page by page with the turn in mind.
AI script generators produce one formatted scene at a time. For a short film that is enough if you supply the logline, the turn and the constraints of your shoot. A working method.
A comic script is organised by page and panel, each with a description, dialogue and captions. Full script vs plot-first, a sample page, what artists expect.
A webtoon storyboard is a rough tall-canvas sketch of every panel, balloon and gap. How to thumbnail an episode fast, test it on a phone and fix pacing first.
A webtoon script lists every panel in scroll order with art direction, dialogue and SFX, and uses panel size and gaps to set pace. Format plus a worked example.
Making a webtoon means a one-line premise, a small cast, a panel script, a tall-canvas storyboard, art, and a buffer before posting. Each step, in order.
A logline is one sentence: a flawed protagonist, an inciting event, a goal, an opponent and the stakes. Here is the formula, 25 worked examples and the mistakes that make loglines vague.
A TV pilot must launch a series, not just tell a story. Learn teaser and act-break structure for half-hour and hour formats, and how to build a series engine that lasts.
The Save the Cat beat sheet divides a 110-page screenplay into 15 beats, from Opening Image (p. 1) to Final Image (p. 110). Here is the template with page targets and how to use it.
Korean drama scripts use numbered scenes (S#1), prose stage directions called jimun, name-colon dialogue and tags like (E) and (N). Here is the convention with examples.
Keep your master in Fountain or FDX, send PDF. Fountain is plain text and portable; FDX is Final Draft's XML and the production standard; PDF is read-only. Details inside.
Adapting a novel means choosing one spine, cutting interior monologue, and rebuilding each chapter as scenes with visible goals. A step-by-step method with examples.
A screenplay uses six elements: slugline, action, character, parenthetical, dialogue and transition. Here is what each looks like on the page, with margins and examples.