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Story Structure & Plot Visualization Software

Stencil comes with built-in story structure and plot visualization software that allows you to plan and structure your story before you begin the writing process.

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Software version 1.1.1

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Structuring a story is one of the hardest parts of being a storyteller. Our built-in plot visualization tools help you better structure your films and documentaries.

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Plot Visualization Tools That Help Filmmakers “See” Their Stories.

Visually planning out an entire film or documentary is no small task.

Stencil’s built-in story structure and plot visualization tools were designed to help writers and filmmakers map out stronger, more dramatic and more engaging stories. Our plot visualization tools help you “see” your story on screen before you ever start filmming.

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Connect Your Screenplay to Your Plot

Not only can you write your screenplay directly within Stencil, but each of your scenes can be visualized using our “plot card” feature.

Customizable Story Acts

Within Stencil you can use a 3, 4, 5 or 6 act story structure to shape your film or documentary.

Story Structure Planning Tools

Our “key steps” worksheet consists of over 100 questions that are designed to help you better structure your story.

Tension Flow Graph

Visualize your story’s dramatic tension on a scene by scene basis using our tension flow graph tool.

Plot Visualization Software

Our plot visualization software allows you to “see” your story from a bird’s eye view giving you instant insight into your story’s structure.

Subplot Visualization Tools

Not only can you visualize your story’s main through-line, but you can also visualize your story’s subplots.

Pre-Writing and Plot Planning Tools

Stencil has numerous pre-writing and plot planning tools that allow you to start to shape your story before you start writing.

Image Planning Tools

Not only can you visualize your plot, but you can also visualize each scene’s shot using our storyboarding tool.

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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Software version 1.1.1

Visualize Your Story With Plot Visualization Software

Designing the plot for a film or documentary can be a challenge

When it comes to plot design it’s easy to get lost. There is so much that goes into a creating a strong story structure. Stencil helps you in your journey to craft the perfect plot by giving you access to an entire suite of plot visualization tools.

View Your Scene’s Images Shot By Shot

Each time you add a new scene to our screenwriting software, you can attach that scenes associated images

When writing your screenplay, you’ll be able to add that scenes associated storyboard or shot list images directly above your screenplay. This allows you to visualize how your scenes will play out on screen.

Custom 3, 4, 5 & 6 Act Story Structure Templates

With Stencil you can use any story telling structure you want.

Stencil can fit to any writing style or story design paradigm. It doesn’t matter if you like to work with a 3, 4, 5 or 6 act story structure, Stencil can accommodate your writing and plotting preferences.

Easily View All Major Story Milestones & Plot Points

Your scenes need to be strong on their own, but they also need to serve a larger purpose

Stencil allows you to optimize each of your scenes as an individual unit of action. At the same time, Stencil allows you to also view each of your scenes in terms of how they help support your overall story structure.

Embed Our Plot Visualization Tools on Your Site

Want to embed Stencil directly into your own production studio’s website?

Stencil allows you to easily embed our software into your own film or video production’s website and re-brand it to match your brand’s style. This allows your writers, directors and cinematographers to to collaborate using these plot visualization tools directly from your own website.

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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 $99 / 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 $99 / 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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