Product Description

StoryView 2.0 helps you organize your story and see it unfold, the way a viewer or reader would. Get a feel for rhythms and patterns of your story with this powerful software tool! Change the sequence of events by clicking and dragging the Event Boxes into a new position Export your work into Movie Magic Screenwriter

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3009 in Software
• Brand: Write Brothers
• Model: 912027
• Platforms: Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows 98, Windows 2000
• Format: CD-ROM
• Number of items: 1

Features

• Use the powerful Outline or Timeline Views to get a stronger visual sense of your story
• Tracking tool helps you show connections between events and characters, objects or key words
• Customize StoryView to fit your personal writing style, or choose any of the pre-built templates
• Import a story or script that's been pre-written for deeper analysis
• Represent the size and duration of your story events and their importance with Event Boxes

From the Manufacturer
StoryView is a remarkable visual outliner for writers that lets you brainstorm, create, structure, and organize your ideas. StoryView uses a timeline format that is superior to index cards, blocks, and traditional outlining systems.

StoryView has limitless space for your big ideas. It will enhance the organization and research of your writing, help you visualize your structuring process, and speed the process of brainstorming, creation, and editing.

Now, imagine stepping back and seeing your whole story in panoramic view.

You've longed for a better way to plan your story. So put away those index cards, that legal pad, and those hand-made charts. StoryView will do all of that for you--and more.

Features:

• Outline window: allows you to create event and write in a familiar easy-to-use word processing/outliner interface.
• Import Movie Magic Screenwriter and Microsoft Word RTF documents: import existing MS Word or Screenwriter files (and Final Draft files saved in RTF format) into StoryView.
• Estimation duration: Sets the duration of events based on length of your text. This cool feature lets StoryView automatically determine how long your scenes are if they are written in format, including screenplays, stage plays, and novels imported from Movie Magic Screenwriter. You can then see their relative sizes in the Timeline View.
• New tutorials, templates, and example files: StoryView 2.0 includes new outlining and screenwriting tutorials, templates for outlining and brainstorming, a complete Lord of the Rings trilogy example file, and more.
• Hide/show any event type, level, or hierarchy: allows you to view only the event types you wish to work with.
• Create multiple outlines within a single document: great for brainstorming and creating different scenarios.
• Applying fonts, styles, and attributes to multiple fonts: you can select multiple events and set their font or style.
• Time constraints: Helps to keep events where you place them. Prevents unwanted gaps from occurring in the timeline.
• Improved outline reports: outline reports now match the capabilities of the new outline window.
• Print events as seen in the outline window: print reports that match your onscreen combinations of the various outline features.
• And scores of other features and improvements!

Customer Reviews

Beware
I bought an earlier edition of this software and worked with it alot and was satisfied with the software itself. Unfortunately, the manual was apparently written by someone who had never used the software, and contacting the seller was totally wasted time; they refused to respond to any questions. I recently bought this new edition, hoping the problems had been solved over the past few years. No such luck. The manual is even worse than before, and the tutorial doesn't even come close to what is actually to be done on the software. If you can figure this out yourself, it is a good tool for screenwriting, otherwise, you are going to be terminally frustrated and chuck the thing into the river. Beware, expect NO help from the manual or from the manufacturer.

Review on StoryView 2.0
Write Brothers StoryView 2.0
I think that Write Brothers StoryView is a wonderful product! As you work on your dramatic writing process for either a script, play, or novel. Storyview 2.0 will allow you to view each scene in relation to the others. I developed my story on a dramatic writing software and then exported it over to StoryView. StoryView brought up the scenes beautifully and I was able to objectively view each screen in contrast to the other scenes - and also have a larger view of the story as a whole! Without this product most people would have to use index cards in order to perform this process. But with StoryView, the process is much easier. Plus, you are able to import dramatic writing ideas from other software and be able to arrange and critique the ideas in the StoryView software and then export the ideas to a script formatting software. I use all three in conjunction with each other. But the best benefit of these features is that you are able to view, piece together, and develop a story - all in one process with StoryView - and then the final step would be the technicality of formatting the story into a script! Also, I want to mention that you can also convert the scenes with StoryView into a Word document and be able to show your story to others who do not own the StoryView software. So, I am extremely happy with this product! It definitely is an aid to my writing as well as giving me an advantage as a writer over others who do not use these types of softwares. I would highly recommend this product!

Exceptional tool for screenwriters of all levels of experience.
This software is remarkable. It's just below $200, and the price is very good for the product, the amount of resource the software provides. Tech support is awesome. The Write Brothers are where it's at for this type of stuff.