The font used is typically Courier. This monospaced font is chosen for its clarity and ease of reading, making it popular among screenwriters and playwrights. The uniform spacing between characters allows for precise timing and pacing in dialogue, ensuring that actors can easily read their lines. Additionally, Courier’s simple and unadorned Superimposed Text Over Image (Super) The other thing people often ask me about is how to correctly write a title in the screenplay. First, you don’t really call this a TITLE. We reserve this for the OPENING and CLOSING TITLES, like you will see in the example. When you want to indicate where we are (e.g. Paris, Texas), or the time/date (The Scene headings: In screenplay format, scene headings are written in all uppercase and have at least three parts. The first is INT. or EXT. to indicate whether the scene is interior (inside a building) or exterior (outside). The second part is the location (for example, GROCERY STORE), followed by a hyphen. At the beginning of a screenplay, you’ve only got about 10 pages to accomplish these five major rules: Establish the tone/ genre (is this a comedy, fantasy, spoof, etc.) Introduce your main character: interesting, flawed, and if not likeable, at least empathetic… somebody we can hope and fear for. Clarify the world of the story and the Basically, a screenplay consists of a 90- to 120-page document typed in Courier 12pt font and printed out on 8 ½ “ X 11” bright white paper, three-hole-punched. The reason Courier is used has to do with a timing issue. One correctly formatted script page typed in Courier translates to roughly 1 minute of screen time. These sorts of things are not things usually written in screenplays, so there's no standard. Trailers are cut from shot footage, not written. No one writes whether the text fades in or growing text, it would be as weird as writing out what font and size it should be. All these things would be left up to the post-production crew, maybe the director. It's bland. It's standard. Until recently, there was nothing you or I could do about it. Thanks to John August, Alan Dague-Greene and Ryan Nelson of Quote-Unquote Apps, however, now we have Courier Prime, a better Courier font designed specifically for screenplays. Even better, it's free. Spec Writing Screenplay Scripts written on spec in TV vs. film. Confusingly, the term spec script means something entirely different in the context of television. As opposed to a feature film spec script, which consists of new, original material, a television version is a writer’s take on an episode of an existing television show. ub9W6.