slate-dialogue

Use after Export as SLATE desk 12 Critics.

Use when writing or validating Fountain screenplay syntax — title page, scene headings, action, character cues, dialogue, parentheticals, transitions.

Use when writing a screenplay scene in Fountain — headings, present-tense action, mini three-act, visual writing.

Use when starting a new SLATE project or when bible.md is thin — interview the writer for premise, genre, format, length, tone, and whose story it is.

Use when storyboarding a shot.

Use as SLATE Producer desk 11 after Boards or pages.

Use when locking a logline, dramatic question, genre contract, or what-if for a screenplay.

Use when inventorying production assets — characters as identities, locations, narrative props.

Use when raising stakes, naming a scene's value shift, applying SCENE anatomy, or cutting scenes that do not change a fact or a relationship.

Use when planning coverage and shot lists — size, angle, lens, movement, blocking, duration, sound, start/end state.

Use when designing cast — want vs need, ghost/lie/flaw, look, voice, and arc.

Use when planning acts, Save the Cat beats, page maps, pacing, or sequence design for a screenplay.