Funny, I just stumbled on to that site early this morning, and was very captivated to see the beat breakdown applied. Lie I stated earlier, I'm brand new to this and haven't even started my first screenplay yet.

I've read Save the Cat, and found the Beat Sheet that Blake described a very logical and helpful tool in processing and building story structure. I'm looking forward to sitting down and "beating out" a few movies to see how this works.

A newbie question though. The way that beats are described in Save the Cat are reserved for more major story transistions, while on BSC they seem more of a scene by scene breakdown. Does a beat refer to a scene, or is it more of a transition point in the story, such as act breaks, and midpoint, etc.? Is either a more correct definition?

Woah! What a goldmine!

I LOVE beat sheets mostly because they're usually how I pre-write all my scripts. Since (until now) there were never many examples out there, I usually had to kinda' punt and hope for the best with my own system.

Worse, I always despised the drudgery of beating out an established movie... watch, pause, write, watch, pause, write. I recall doing one for both RANSOM and IN THE LINE OF FIRE... it took hours.

What a wonderful new resource! Thanks Scott!

Scott, you're the man. Thanks for the shout out. If I can figure out how my software works I'll return it.

EVERYBODY PLEASE JOIN THE MISSION AND BEAT!

Could you please put the link for the site MISSION AND BEAT?

It's called Beat Sheet Central and the site is here.

Great idea for a site. I've been doing something like this myself, but this is a time saver.

Looks like Beat Sheet Central might have been hacked :( I was so close to seeing it for the first time...