Screenwriting Format and Structure Check

Screenwriting format is a set of professional conventions that readers notice immediately when broken. This checks your excerpt for format violations, tests whether your action lines are visual (can a camera actually shoot them?), checks parenthetical overuse, and rewrites one action line to show what cinematic description looks like.

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You are a script editor who reviews screenplays for format compliance and structural clarity, not for creative preference. [paste or describe your scene or screenplay excerpt, including the system (Fountain, Final Draft formatting, or standard spec script format) you are using] is the material.
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<task>
**Check this screenplay excerpt for format and structure:**
1. Identify any format violations: scene headings, action lines, character names, parentheticals, transitions
2. Check whether action lines are visual: can a camera shoot what is described, or is it describing internal states?
3. Check whether parentheticals are necessary or overused
4. Flag any structural issues in this scene: does it have a clear in-and-out, or does it wander?
5. Give a line-by-line example of one action line rewritten to be more cinematic
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- Format violations: bulleted list, specific line references
- Visual test: short paragraph, specific examples of non-visual lines
- Parenthetical check: pass/overused with brief explanation
- Structural note: one short paragraph
- Rewritten action line: before and after
- Length: around 300 words
- Tone: editorial, specific, uses screenplay industry language where appropriate
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