![]() But for the way I used Scrivener, these felt like extra work. (For Scrivener diehards, you have some options to get your stuff on an iPad. These days, I’m all iOS for my edit “support system”, which means I’d been looking for a way to replace Scrivener. But time marches on and as much as I love Scrivener the developer has been very dedicated to keeping its resources focused and only very recently announced that it would do an iOS version. It was definitely a big help and I wish I could tell you that I was still using it everyday. Scrivener helps you put it all in one place.įor several years after that project I used Scrivener on every single show I worked on, as a place to keep my own notes and supplemental materials. There are several tools in Scrivener that were invaluable in that process – the combination of outline and notecards, and the ability of Scrivener to function as a research binder where you can compile your own notes as well as other relevant documents (government reports, newspaper articles, web clippings, really anything). The three years of footage that we were attempting to distill ended up making a lot more sense once we were able to condense sections of it and see more clearly what we really had. That combination allows you to group your thoughts by subject and then rearrange them you can fill in details about each section of the show and have those notes follow that information as you rearrange it within the outline. Where Scrivener was such an amazing help was that it works both as a nesting outline and as a virtual corkboard. It was a complicated show we were trying to tell the story of a single family at the same time we told the story of both political and economic battles being fought in the state of Louisiana after Hurricane Katrina. On the Frontline “The Old Man and the Storm”, there was a point where we had filled four cork boards with index cards to try and sort out the story we needed to tell. I think I can say without exaggeration that Scrivener helped turn around at least one film I worked on. The other big app in the category is Scrivener, and that’s the one I used first. Tools that help you visualize overall story structure, manage research, and work on the writing all at once.įor almost a year, I’ve been using one of these tools on my iPad (and desktop) called Storyist. But the truth is that now there are plenty of writing tools that are designed to be a bit more helpful to a writer than simply being a fancy typewriter. No one loves it, but they use it because the client requires you to deliver the script in a table with cell numbers on each line, to make it easy for the lawyers, I suppose. In documentary and the reality shows I’ve worked on, everyone uses Microsoft Word for writing.
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