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Let every character sound like themselves. Use profiles and dialogue

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views to explore who is speaking, and why. The “Characters”

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tab in the sidebar shows all speaking parts with the

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number of their appearances. Federio Dramatize recognises a character by

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its character paragraph; extensions such as (O.S.) for “off screen”

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or (V.O.) for “voice-over” are credited to the same character.

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With “Add Character” you create a character that has no

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dialogue yet, say for planning. A click on a character

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opens their profile: full name, age, occupation, description of looks

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and nature, motivation (what they want), conflict (what stands in

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their way), backstory, character arc (how they change) and tags.

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The profile is your notebook on the character. It is

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saved with the project but appears neither in the screenplay

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text nor in the export. When “Sara” becomes “Lena” in

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the third draft, choose Screenplay, then Rename Character in Screenplay.

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You enter the old and the new name, and Federio

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Dramatize changes all character paragraphs as well as the mentions

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in action and dialogue. Check beforehand whether there are similarly

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spelt characters; “SARA” and “SARAH” are two people to Federio

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Dramatize. Screenplay, then Dialogue Navigator lists all dialogue lines of

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the screenplay, filterable by character or search word. With it

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you read, for example, everything Elias says one after the

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other and hear whether his voice holds throughout. A click

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jumps to the line in the text. Sometimes you have

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two versions of a line and do not want to

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decide yet. Put the cursor in the dialogue and choose

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Screenplay, then Add Alternate Dialogue (Command or Control plus Alt

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plus L). The new version is stored as a variant;

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in the text only one ever appears. First write both

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characters one after the other with their dialogues, that is,

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character A, her dialogue, character B, his dialogue. Then put

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the cursor in the first of the two blocks and

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choose “Dual Dialogue” in the context menu or the format

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selector. Both blocks move side by side into two columns.

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The Dialogue Navigator can isolate one or two characters. It

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reports dialogue and word counts plus frequent words, revealing uneven

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speaking shares and repeated language. Try these tools on a

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copy of your screenplay. Keep what helps your writing, and

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return to the guide whenever you need the details.