Storyboard Software

[Alex G. Cohn]

Ultimately storyboard and screenwriting programs are kinda useless..
anything they do..you can easily do yourself on paper...personally
prefer to work in the physical world..but if you're digitally inclined there's...

Storyboard programs might be unnecessary, but screenwriting programs are far from useless.

Yes, you can write a screenplay out by hand, but you are then going to need to type it in a word process or on a typewriter in order to put it in proper format, which is necessary. And then you have to worry about setting all of the margins and line-lengths correctly by hand.

At the end of the day, you might have well as just started in the screenwriting program, because it would have saved you tons of time. Especially how the programs can keep track of character names, generate numerous reports, automatically format A and B pages correctly once you are in production and making changes to a locked script, and so on.