Scripped is an online screenplay services company offering three services: script writing, script registration, and script coverage

Script coverage

Script coverage is a filmmaking term for the analysis and grading of screenplays, often within the "script development" department of a production company....

. Scripped currently does not facilitate collaboration among screenwriters. It combined with Zhura in 2010. According to Techcrunch, Scripped has more than 60,000 writers as of March 2010.

Scripped is administered by Sunil Rajaraman, Ryan Buckley and Zak Freer. Actor, writer, and director Edward Burns

Edward Burns

Edward Fitzgerald Burns is an American actor, film producer, writer and director.-Early life:Burns was born in Woodside, Queens, New York, the son of Molly , a federal agency manager, and Edward J. Burns, a public relations spokesman and police officer. He was raised a Roman Catholic...

 joined Scripped's Board of Advisers in May 2008. In 2008, the company formed a partnership with Write Brothers

Write Brothers

* For the airplane invention team Wright Brothers.Write Brothers, Inc. is a computer software publisher founded in 1982 by Stephen Greenfield and Chris Huntley as Screenplay Systems. The company's first program was Scriptor, the world's first screenplay formatter...

, makers of Movie Magic Screenwriter

Movie Magic Screenwriter

Movie Magic Screenwriter is a word processing program sold by Write Brothers, Inc. to format screenplays, teleplays and novels .- History :Write Brothers' first software program, Scriptor , was the world's first screenplay formatter....

 software. On March 29, 2010, Scripped announced that it closed $250,000 in private investment and merged with competitor Zhura

Zhura

Zhura , merged with screenwriting competitor Scripped as of March 28, 2010, is a free web-based screenwriting software application for writing and formatting screenplays to the film industry standard, as well as other formats...

. Scripped's CEO, Sunil Rajaraman, remains the merged company's Chief Executive Officer.

Features

The Scripped Writer provides a built-in screenplay template which formats the document to a standard for scripts as recommended by the AMPAS. The screenplay document is composed of seven elements: scene, action, character, dialog, parenthetical, transition and general. Each element has a specific style to which the Scripped Writer conforms as text is entered.

Like other client-side screenplay software

Screenwriting software

Screenwriting software are word processors specialized to the task of writing screenplays. The need for such programs arises from the presence of certain peculiarities in standard screenplay format which are not handled well by generic word processors. A good example would be the formatting and...

, Scripped offers Tab-Enter toggling between screenplay elements, making the writing process much faster.

Text files can be imported into the Scripped Writer and automatically conformed to the screenplay template. Completed scripts can be exported as PDF files.

In May of 2011 the administrators of Scripped launched Scripted.com - a sister site focused on freelance writing jobs.

See also

• Web 2.0
  Web 2.0
  The term Web 2.0 is associated with web applications that facilitate participatory information sharing, interoperability, user-centered design, and collaboration on the World Wide Web...
  
  
• Screenwriting
  Screenwriting
  Screenwriting is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games. It is a freelance profession....
  
  
• Screenwriting software
  Screenwriting software
  Screenwriting software are word processors specialized to the task of writing screenplays. The need for such programs arises from the presence of certain peculiarities in standard screenplay format which are not handled well by generic word processors. A good example would be the formatting and...
  
  
• List of screenwriting software