Cover Page Tips for Screenplays

Video Transcript

"Hello, my name is Tony Ramirez from Tampa, Florida. And on behalf of Expert Village, this is "How to Write a Screenplay." Let's get started. Chapter Four: your cover page. Now of course this is going to be the most important part of your entire script. This could actually make or break your script. This is horrible. I don't a hundred percent believe it, too, but of course everything has rules, and this is no exception. So for your cover page, the first thing you're going to want to do is if you're using, for instance, Microsoft Word again - if you're not using a screenwriting software - what you're going to want to do is go down for inches from the top so you have your margins on the side A you can't really see them in this shot right here, but you will have a ruler in your Microsoft Word that will have your spaces. So for instance, we're going to want to use the title of our movie right now is "Expert Village." So we're going to go down four inches, which is right about here. So now we're exactly four inches down from the top of the page and we're going to center this. Go ahead and click center. So that's it. Now this is your title. For the title, on your cover page, you're going to want to bold it. Go ahead and click bold. Unclick it. And there you go. So the title of our movie right now is "Expert Village", it's bold, it's in Courier New - the same font as before, the same font you're going to use in your entire script - and it's in 12 point. Now what you're going to want to do is you're going to actually give titles to the people writing it. We'll hit enter - that's only one space down; one space down; non-bold, so we'll uncheck bold. We're going to type in the name. For this project, I'll just put my name: Tony Ramirez. So there we go. Our script right now is the title of "Expert Village" and it's written by Tony Ramirez. That's it. That is all you need for your cover page. Anything else - any colors, any other fonts - they look great for you, for your friends, things like that. But if you're going to submit them for somebody professional or for consideration of a possible big script option of a real script through a real company, you're going to want to do things exactly like this. So again, your cover page: four inches down, the title in bold, Courier New font, twelve point font, one space down whoever wrote the script. If it's multiple people you can go ahead and space down one more. And that's it. That's your cover page."