A title page that looks right.

Nobody gets a title page right first time, and everybody needs one the day they send the script. Fill in the four things it actually holds and get a document that opens in Google Docs, centred and spaced the way the industry sets it.

Your title page

Page size

What goes on a title page, and what does not

What belongs

The title, centred, about a third of the way down. The words written by, then your name. If it is an adaptation, what it is adapted from. Your contact details in the bottom left corner, because that is where a reader looks for them.

What does not

No draft number unless someone asked for one, no date on a spec script, no copyright notice, no WGA registration number, no logline, no image. Every one of those reads as a first script, which is the one thing a title page can tell a reader before they open it.

Now write in it.

Screenplay Editor formats your script while you type in Google Docs. Enter and Tab move you between a character, a line of dialogue and the next scene, the way Final Draft does. It is free to start.

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Questions about title pages

I write my own films in Google Docs, so I built the tools I kept wishing existed.

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What should a screenplay title page look like?
Courier 12 like the rest of the script, the title centred about a third down, then written by and your name, and your contact details in the bottom left corner. Nothing else.
Should I put a date or a draft number?
Not on a spec script. A date tells a reader how long it has been going around, and a draft number invites a question about the earlier ones. Put them on only when a production asks.
Do I need a copyright line or a WGA number?
No. It does not add protection and it reads as nervous. Registration is worth doing, printing it on the cover is not.
How do I get it into Google Docs?
You download the file and drag it into Google Drive, then open it with Google Docs. The formatting survives because the document carries the exact margins the format uses.

The other free tools

Open your screenplay in Google Docs

A PDF, a Final Draft file or a Fountain file becomes a document that opens already formatted.

Check your format before you send it

The notes a reader would write, before a reader writes them.

Turn your script into a breakdown sheet

Every scene, its location, its time of day and its cast, in a coloured spreadsheet.

Lay out your beats and start writing

Fifteen beats at their real page numbers, in a document already divided.

How long does your script run?

A real estimate, and where the time actually goes.

See who carries your script

Who speaks, how much, in how many scenes, from which page to which.