Currently, manuscripts, such as screen plays, are labor intensive and difficult to create. Although words are often good enough to convey an idea, for movie or screenplay depictions of a source written work, such as a novel, the meaning of the words and phrases employed must be placed in context or the scene, as well as actions and other non-verbal and visual cues.
Indeed, the conversion process for any source document into a manuscript, such as a scene and dialogue in a play, movie, narrative, commercials, training materials and a multitude of other contexts, is labor intensive and can be simplified. Additionally, the creation process itself can be enhanced and facilitated in the creation of an original, new work, with the incorporation of the subtleties of words, gestures, expressions, scenes and other context needs simplification. Currently, there are established formats for representing these types of data, particularly, a very stylized screenplay-type format employed by Hollywood.
However, in the creation of a document, one may prefer to write the document in a format other than that of a stylized screenplay and not adhering to the strict Hollywood protocols, wanting to have more freedom in the creative process. However, this freedom means that the free-form document, with all the contextual information therein, must be manually and laboriously converted or transformed into another manuscript format, such as one in the Hollywood style, or other form, for marketing, which entails retyping or other effort.
There is, therefore, a present need to provide a tool to augment the creative process, particularly in those processes involving the creation and manipulation of a manuscript involving scenes and characters from a novel or other text, whether an individual or collaborative effort, and including text, audio and visual components.
There is also a present need to make this process as simple and automatic as possible for the creator, e.g., a technique that allows the creator to express themselves in a written format of their own preference, while enabling the ability for the manuscript document to be converted into another format, such as a screenplay, that may be stylized for an industry or profession, and vice versa, e.g., a user may want to convert a stylized manuscript to a more free form style.