I spent months trying to write my first screenplay the "right" way — expensive software, complicated formatting rules, endless rewrites before I even had a story worth telling.
So I built something better.
FilmCraft AI is an AI-powered screenwriting platform built specifically for filmmakers. Here's what it does:
It's clearly NOT built for filmmakers. They write scripts because they want to, and because they're good at it. It sounds like it's built for those who think that their own lack of talent and skill shouldn't be a barrier to calling themselves a filmmaker.
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Hey thank you for your response and being brutally honest... i would appreciate it if you can take out your valuable time and browse the site and see what all it does..the best part about filmcraftAI is the scene by scene builder..where you can write your scenes (or speak your scenes via microphone), the way you want and what filmcraft AI does is cuts the time drastically and generates a fdx ready format within minutes...I understand everyone wants ownership of their works...this is not a tool where AI just generates scripts..its a tool where AI helps you format the scripts (your own scripts that were a product of your own thought process) and ready to export in different formats ..i also understand if you are not interested in this..you can pass!!it would not hurt to try.
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I did. Here are my thoughts: 1. First and foremost, only those who can't write but somehow want to be called a writer would even think of using AI to generate a script. 2. Your AI generated script doesn't attract copyright. And if someone is untalented enough to think a script generated by an AI system that, by definition, creates average content at best, might in any way qualify as original, then they certainly don't have the ability to revise that content to the point it could attract copyright, or be interesting. 3. For $20/month, you can get the professional level of Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, ChatGPT and many others, and all of them far exceed the capabilities of what your website offers. As well, the AI experience in them is customizable and can be sandboxed and automated beyond what this website offers. This illustrates one of the ironies of the AI era: people try to upcharge for creating output that, by definition, is worth less than it ever was.
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Congrats on developing the software. Nice try. However . . .
There is free screenwriting software. Fade In is $80. So much for expensive. The software automatically formats scripts, and the rules are not all that complex. So, bullshit here. If arguments are to be made they should approach lucid. BTW, it's 'lightning'. Lightening is something people do to their hair.
Rewrites are what hone a story. Does this magical software panacea spit out golden text and dialogue on the first pass. Hardly. Here's a sample. Note the formatting is wrong, and of course the writing is mind numbingly awful. A favorite text line is, "...stares at his laptop with the intensity of a man defusing a bomb. He is not defusing a bomb." My, that explanation is brilliant. We're safe from Skynet for the time being.
Here's the prompt and what crawled out: 'a hapless developer and failed screenwriter creates a useless AI tool for screenwriting' :
INT. CRAMPED HOME OFFICE - NIGHT
A desk buried under pizza boxes, empty energy drink cans,
and sticky notes covered in illegible scribbles. A
motivational poster on the wall reads "BELIEVE IN YOUR
DREAMS" but someone has scrawled "lol" over it in marker.
DEREK PUHL, 34, unshaven, wearing a hoodie with a mustard
stain shaped like Florida, stares at his laptop with the
intensity of a man defusing a bomb. He is not defusing a
bomb. He is watching a loading bar at sixty-three percent.
The loading bar stops at sixty-three percent. Derek stares
at it. It does not move.
DEREK
Come on. Come on come on come on.
(NOTE: the lines following this dialogue were formatted as dialogue, not Actions)
He taps the trackpad. Nothing. He
taps it harder. Nothing. He picks
up the laptop and gently tilts it
side to side as though the progress
bar is a marble he can roll to the
finish line.
It reaches sixty-four percent.
Derek pumps his fist.
(More formatting woes, extra line return, people speak in contractions, i.e. 'it's')
VOICE ON PHONE
(tired, female)
Derek, it is two in the morning.
E Langley "We're safe from Skynet for the time being." HAHAHAHAHAAA! True.