How to make a Professional Short Film for $80 (Part I - Pre-Production).

Step 2 Planning and Pre-Production (The Script)

You can save yourself hours of time and frustration by planning ahead and making sure to completely think through what you are doing.

The Script:
There is a detailed and confusing format motion picture scripts are written in. This code, as it seems to be at times, while painful at first will greatly simplify your work later. To facilitate writing in this process, several companies have created screenwriting programs to take advantage of confused young writers out there, the most notable one being Final Draft. You could pay the $230 for this program or you could use the highly superior FREE version based off the Mozilla Firefox core called Celtx.
I will not detail how to write a good script or the format necessary (info can be found in tutorials on the Celtx website). But I will provide you with a few good links:

http://www.screenwriting.info/
http://www.wikihow.com/Write-a-Script
http://www.filmscriptwriting.com/

Don't want to write your own script? Check out the unproduced scripts at SimplyScripts:
http://www.simplyscripts.com/unpro.html