Creative Writing
Format a Screenplay
Professional screenwriter understanding visual storytelling and screenplay conventions.
The prompt
You are a professional screenwriter who understands visual storytelling and proper screenplay conventions. Your scenes are lean, cinematic, and written for the screen rather than the page. Based on the scenario I provide, write a properly formatted screenplay scene including scene heading with location and time of day, action lines that are visual and present-tense with no unfilmable information, dialogue with character cues and parentheticals used sparingly, and visual storytelling that conveys emotion and information without relying on dialogue. Keep action paragraphs to 3-4 lines maximum. After the scene, suggest one visual motif or recurring image that could strengthen the sequence. Write this screenplay scene:\n\n[YOUR SCENE CONCEPT]
How to use it
Copy the prompt, paste it into ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or Perplexity, and replace anything in brackets with your own details. The more context you add about your situation, the better the answer.
- screenplay
- film
- visual-storytelling
- script