One thing I find is rarely mentioned or paid attention to, is script formatting for comics. Even during my two-year stay at The Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art (so fairly specialized, as you might be able to tell) was this even mentioned.
So as I started writing my first script for a graphic novel, I had to figure out how I wanted to format it. I chose Final Draft, and never regretted it! It’s the standard screenwriting software and works extremely well for comics, as well. Click on the image to the left to see one of my sample pages. (It’s in Norwegian, but since we’re talking formatting here, I hope you don’t mind).
Final Draft is extremely intuitive and handles dialogue very well. It leaves the pages easy to read and, more importantly, easy to work with as the drawing process starts.
I find that I don’t really need the panel numbering, though, since I seem to break up panels and pages independently of those numbers, anyway. So for the next script that I’m working on now, I’ve left those out. That means my script looks even more like a movie script.
I’m completely sold on Final Draft!
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