Drop the script.
Get the paperwork.
Chronotype reads your screenplay here, on your own computer, and lists every printed thing the scenes call for: the telegram, the evening paper, the menu at the bar, the sign on the corner. Check the list, fix what it got wrong, then let the studios build the lot — dated to the year the script is set in, placed in its country, and fictional down to the brand.
Check the list.
Then build it.
Every line says where it came from. Untick what the scene does not need, change what a thing is, put the words on it. Things heard only in dialogue start unticked.
The title, year, country, firm and town above, with the strictness, the places and the cast below, saved in this browser so every studio can be set to it in one click, or on arrival. Nothing leaves the machine. Places go to the studio that prints them: the hospital to the ward sign, the newspaper to the masthead, the town to the dateline.
Tick who needs papers of their own and what kind. They are added as a last group, filled in with the name.
Every sheet,
true size.
Each studio opens out of sight, makes its things and closes. Your own saved designs are not touched. Open any sheet in its studio to take it further — it lands on top of what you left there, and Undo takes it back.
A reader you
can check.
The scenes
A scene starts at a heading — INT., EXT., ΕΣΩΤ., ΕΞΩΤ. or a
line forced with a full stop. Names in capitals over a line of speech are the cast. Final Draft files are read by
their own paragraph types.
The year and the place
A year in a super or a title card holds until the next one; a year in a scene heading holds for that scene. The country comes from the places named — London, Chicago, Θεσσαλονίκη — and Greek pages are read as Greek. Change either, for the whole script or for one scene.
The things
A word list in English and Greek says what each printed thing is and which studio makes it: a telegram, a pawn ticket, a bottle of whisky, a street sign, a town plan, a photograph, the page on a monitor. Words in quotes after it go on it. Real brand names are flagged, and a gun or a car goes to the prop buyer, not the printer.
Nothing on this page sends anything anywhere: the script is read in this tab and forgotten when you close it. The same script gives the same list every time.