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Character Development Templates For Film & TV

Built-in to Stencil’s writing software are various character development tools designed to ensure that you create compelling and unique characters for your films, web productions or TV shows.

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Access our character development tools which were designed to help you bring the memorable characters to the screen possible.

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Character Dev Tools That Help Filmmakers Tell Better Stories

Developing strong characters requires a detailed understanding of how compelling characters are designed.

Stencil gives you access to an entire suite of character design and development tools designed to help you populate your story with compelling and memorable characters. You can plan character personalities, character arcs and much more.

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Character Development Tools

We have tools built into Stencil that allow you to plan out your character’s personalities and character arcs.

Character Arc Planning Tools

Plan and visualize your character arcs (positive, negative or neutral) early on using our character arc visualization tools.

Character Ending Planning Tools

Use a character ending quadrant to visualize the change within your character (i.e. happy ending, bitter ending, tragic ending etc.).

Pre-Writing Character Development Tools

Before you start fleshing out your characters you’ll need to start brainstorming who they are. Our character pre-planning tools help you do just that.

A.I. Powered Character Avatars

Before you cast for your film you may want to visualize your characters. Our A.I. character avatar generation tools help you do just that.

Personality Differentiation Graph

Differentiate your characters by ensuring that each of your characters rank differently using our personality differentiation graph.

Visualize Characters in Plot & Script

Many of the other tools within Stencil allow you to integrate any characters in your story. For instance, you can add characters to your plot cards.

Protagonist vs. Antagonist

Plan out the relationship between your protagonist and antagonistic forces. Our software gives you a birds eye view of this relationship and the obstacles faced.

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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Comprehensive Character Development Tools

Stencil’s built-in character development tools are the only tools you’ll need to design memorable characters

Stencil comes with various built-in character development tools that were designed to help ensure you create the strongest characters possible for your project. Design memorable protagonists and worth antagonists.

Character Arc & Ending Planning

Know your story’s ending and character arc before you start writing.

Within our character development template you’ll find a section that allows you to plan your character arc and the final state of your character at the end of their journey.

Character Development Pre-Writing Worksheets

Stencil comes with a pre-writing worksheet that helps you plan out strong characters early in the writing process.

Our pre-writing worksheet (called the “key steps worksheet”) helps you plan out strong characters early on. This tool makes the writing process much quicker by removing many creative roadblocks before they happen.

Connect Your Story Characters to Cast

Once your script is ready to be produced, your story’s characters become linked to actors

Stencil helps you connect the dots within your story through the different stages of production. For example, once it’s time to connect actors to your character profiles, we make this transition seamless.

Embed Our Character Dev Tools on Your Site

Best of all, you can embed Stencil’s character development template into your own production studio’s website

Simply copy and paste a custom snippet of code to embed Stencil’s suite of film production tools into your own film studio’s website. You can also brand the software to match your brand’s colors.

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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.

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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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