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Pre-Writing & Story Planning Templates

Stencil has built-in pre-writing and story planning templates for narrative films and documentaries. These tools allow you to map out your story structure before you start writing.

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Pre-Writing Tools That Help Filmmakers Tell Better Stories

One of the most challenging aspects of filmmaking is developing your story ideas.

Stencil.one was created by filmmakers, for filmmakers. Our pre-writing and story planning tools are designed to help you strategically expand on your initial concepts. With our software, you can transform small ideas into fully developed, compelling narratives.

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Plot Builder Worksheet

Our plot builder worksheet consists of over 100 questions in linear order (from Act 1 to Act 3) which help you shape a great story with strong and memorable characters.

Visualize Your Story Outline

Gain a top level perspective of your story with our plot visualization tool. Take the time to plan your story structure before you begin writing.

Story Engine - Story Design Tool

Our “story engine” tool helps you visualize the conflict between your protagonist and antagonistic forces.

Collaborative Screenwriting Tools

Once you’re ready to begin the writing process, you can use Stencil’s built-in screenwriting software.

Story Pitch

Our story pitch tools allow you to create a strong elevator pitch for your film, TV show or documentary. The story pitch tool boils your idea down into its key components.

Story Structure Templates

Use our story templates. Our 24 scene story structure template helps you keep your story organized and full of drama while giving you room to make it your own.

Character Development Tools

Stencil has built-in character development tools that help ensure your project has three dimensional characters.

Subplot Planning Software

Stencil not only allows you to plan out your story’s plot, but also your subplots by using our subplot design tools.

All-In-One Film Production Software

Stencil comes will all of the tools you need to manage your film production studio. We help you manage storytelling, budgeting, casting, location scouting, storyboarding and so much more!

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Pre-Writing Worksheets

Stencil comes with many pre-writing tools and worksheets to help you better plan out your stories.

Stencil comes with pre-writing tools designed to help you take a seed of a story idea and flesh it out into a full blown film or documentary. We have built in pre-writing tools to help you understand and shape your project’s plot, world and characters.

Story Pitch

Boil your story down into its most essential parts by using our story pitch tool.

Each time you add a project to your account, you’ll be able to associate a “pitch” to that project. A film pitch helps you boil a story down into its most essential components. You’ll identify the story’s character, ordinary world, inciting incident, goal, obstacles, stakes

Key Steps Worksheet For Plot

Over 100 questions designed to help you take a story idea and flesh it out into a full blown film or documentary.

Stencil comes with built-in tools that help you shape your story’s plot into a cohesive and intriguing story. Our key steps worksheet holds your hand through each act as you brainstorm plot elements needed for each section of your character’s journey.

Key Steps Worksheet For Character

Plan out great characters before you start writing your script.

Our “key steps worksheet” also allows you to start planning out your story’s characters in much great detail. The key steps worksheets will ask you questions to help ensure you understand their character arc and flaws as well as their internal and external goals.

Embed Our Pre-Writing Tools On Your Site

Embed these pre-writing tools within your own production studio’s website.

You can embed Stencil’s film production software directly into your own production studio’s website and allow your writers and directory to access these pre-writing tools directly from your own platform. Best of all, you can even brand Stencil to look like your own by changing the platform to use your brand’s color palette.

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A Small Price to Pay to Create Better Films

Our film production management software was designed by filmmakers for filmmakers. All of the tools built into the software are designed to help you create higher quality films. Subscribing to Stencil is an investment in your film production studio, not an expense.

Sterling, Stencil Developer

FAQ

Still have a few last questions before taking stencil for a test drive?

We’ve tried to make Stencil as easy to use and user-friendly as possible. However, we’ve included an FAQ to the right to answer the most common questions we receive.

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What's the cost?

A full featured version of Stencil is free to try for 7 days (without a credit card). After 7 days, if you want to keep using the software, the cost is as low as $39 / month.

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Can I suggest a new feature?

Yes please! We want to make Stencil as powerful of a film production aid as possible. if you have ideas you can simply click on “suggestion box” in the left sidebar.

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Are there contracts?

No. There are no contracts. Our pro members pay as a little as $39 / month. If you ever want to cancel you can do so in one click on your “account settings” page.

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Can I use it for casting crew and actors?

Yes. Each of our paid plans come with our casting tool built in. Simply look for the plan that has the usage limits that you require.

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Do you offer offline access?

No we don’t offer offline access. Currently you must have an internet connection to connect to Stencil. We are primarily a web application since most production work is best done collaboratively and live.

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Who owns the content I create?

You do. We claim no rights whatsoever to the work you create within Stencil.

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Can I whitelable Stencil?

Yes. All of our plans come with the ability to embed Stencil on your own film studio’s website. You can also change the colors to match your film studio’s brand. your entire team / castings etc can all be managed from your own domain.

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I need help putting Stencil on my studio website.

We’d be happy to help. Simply click on “contact us” in the sidebar and let us know what you need. There is no cost for this service.

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I have a question

If you have a question that’s not covered on our website, simply reach out to us by clicking on “contact us” in the left sidebar.

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Is your product for indie filmmakers or studios?

We built Stencil to handle our own studio needs. Therefore, it’s primarily built to handle the needs of many different types of production studios working on various project types (i.e. films, documentaries, commercials, music videos etc.). However, solo filmmakers also use our software to manage smaller productions.

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