screenplay title

Storyboard by: author

Date: date
Collaborators: collaborator list

REVISION DATE AUTHOR COMMENTS

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 StorySorter™
Visual Storyboarding Template

Summary

StorySorter™ is a PowerPoint storyboarding template for writers to use to quickly outline

and organize scenes or chapters in screenplays or books. It is fully customizable and
scalable to work with your specific writing needs.

With this template, you can use Microsoft PowerPoint® to outline, edit ACT and SCENE
slides in Normal view, then switch to Slide Sorter view to sort and organize scene order
and placement.

Good luck, and email me at work@emccleary.com if you have any suggestions or

questions.

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 Act I

Act Summary

Type description of key act elements and direction here

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location – scene
Scene Description Purpose
• Plot goal
• Act goal
Type description of scene and scene elements here
• Core goal
• Character goal
• Sub-goal

Characters
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Supporting
• Supporting

Link Action To:

Scenes where action builds to resolution in this scene, or whose action resolves issues from this screen.

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 Act II

Act Summary

Description of key act elements and direction

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location – scene
Scene Description Purpose
• Plot goal
• Act goal
Type description of scene and scene elements here
• Core goal
• Character goal
• Sub-goal

Characters
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Supporting
• Supporting

Link Action To:

Scenes where action builds to resolution in this scene, or whose action resolves issues from this screen.

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 Act III

Act Summary

Description of key act elements and direction

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location – scene
Scene Description Purpose
• Plot goal
• Act goal
Description of scene and scene elements
• Core goal
• Character goal
• Sub-goal

Characters
• Protagonist
• Antagonist
• Supporting
• Supporting

Link Action To:

Scenes where action builds to resolution in this scene, or whose action resolves issues from this screen.

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 WORKBOOK

Summary

This section contains several customizable worksheets for use in tracking

character’s, character appearance, issues, and resolution.

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CHARACTER LIST
CHARACTER NAME ARCHETYPE 1ST APPEARS EXITS OPEN OPEN

Main character Protagonist Scene 3 - Hallway Final scene

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STORY ARC TRACKER
CHARACTER ISSUE INITIATION REALIZATION CHALLENGE RESOLUTION

Main Character Is in love with antagonist Scene 3 Scene 5 Scene 20 Final Scene

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 StorySorter™
Visual Storyboarding Template

Summary

StorySorter™ is a PowerPoint storyboarding template for writers to use to quickly outline

and organize scenes or chapters in screenplays or books. It is fully customizable and
scalable to work with your specific writing needs.

With this template, you can use Microsoft PowerPoint® to outline, edit ACT and SCENE
slides in Normal view, then switch to Slide Sorter view to sort and organize scene order
and placement.

Good luck, and email me at work@emccleary.com if you have any suggestions or

questions.

© 2004, Geoff McCleary

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