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Michael Shafia

Software · tool

Screenplay Generator

Turn a premise into the shape of a screenplay. Input: a sentence, a paragraph, a fragment of intention. Output: Fountain and PDF, drafted in five stages — bible, beats, scenes, pages, export.

The live generator is paused while it moves house. Below is a still from its output — the draft is complete; the film is not.

The pass

  1. 01 Bible
  2. 02 Beats
  3. 03 Scenes
  4. 04 Pages
  5. 05 Export
Premise — A lighthouse keeper begins receiving radio messages from the keeper who vanished a year ago — in his own voice.
UNTITLED
a generated draft
INT. SAMBRO LIGHT — LANTERN ROOM — NIGHT

Wind claws at the glass. ELIAS REED, 60s, weathered as the
rock he keeps, thumbs a dial on a radio set gone to rust.

Static. Then — a voice. His own, a year younger.

                    RADIO (V.O.)
          Sambro Light to mainland.
          The lamp is lit. All's well.

Elias goes still. That transmission was never logged.

                    ELIAS
          Who's there?

                    RADIO (V.O.)
          You know who. You always did.
One page of the generator’s output — Fountain, exportable to PDF. A static preview; generation is offline.