There is some interest at ASOA in the design that I has started. So i'll take you through it:

The following picture is a little out of date, but was really to get a friend (good coder) interested in helping me out.



Key is the segmentation:
Script Level, sequence level, comments. Then there are links through to Character and Location. Using AJAX (program that Gmail uses) it would be possible to be web based, but would only need to refresh the column that you were working on after a submit.

Comments are easy, and would just join to any other section ie: comments on the script as a whole, one particular sequence, or character or location.

Sequences (Try to keep to a page or so each) would be written most likely by one person. The next person is able to start the sequence fresh or edit the last persons version. Their contribution would be noted with the % of changes they made. Different sequences are then voted on and the one with the highest score is considered the main section. Different sections can be brought up next to each other to help comparisons.

Bonus if you have a wide monitor, you can see say: script, two different sequences, comments on second sequence, and maybe the character column. Whatever helps your work flow.

Voting for each sequence focuses on 4 key areas: Script overall; characterisation and use of characters; emotion; and dialogue. These are the clapperboard, head, heart and dialogue icons. An algorithm in the background would judge the importance of each for this type of script and judge the best sequence accordingly.

The editing itself would have been very similar to Celtx.

The more you think about the process the more complex you realise the whole process is.

Interested on opinions.

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