Editing your page

Every project in Your projects has a public page, and its Page tab is where you build it. A page is a stack of blocks — a header, links, a trailer, stills, laurels, screenings and more — that you add, fill in, move and hide, plus a Design tab for its theme, fonts and colours. This guide covers the Page tab, every block and its fields, the Design tab, how your edits are saved, publishing, and every message you can meet.

You edit a draft; visitors see what you last published. Every edit saves itself to your draft within a second or so, and nothing changes for visitors until you publish. Who can open the page and what they see is in The public film page.

Your title, details and poster are not edited here. They live on the project's Details tab, and the page's header reads them from there. See Your project's details.

Nothing you edit here reaches a festival. Each festival keeps the copy of your submission it received. The only way a value reaches a festival is Send in the bell's To do list, or Send to festival under To do on your project's Overview — one festival at a time, only while that festival is asking, and always from your Details, never from this page. See Sending something to a festival.

The Page tab

Open Page in your project's sidebar. The tab is the builder itself: there is no edit mode to open or close. It has three parts, each scrolling on its own:

• the page bar across the top;
• the panel on the left, with its Blocks and Design tabs;
• the preview beside it, which draws your draft as a visitor would get it.

The page bar

Left to right:

• Page, and a pill: Not published yet before your first publish, Private once a published page has been made private, and no pill while the page is public.
• The page's address, such as filmscorecard.com/p/lantern-field, with Change beside it while the page is not public. See Page address.
• Draft saved 14:32: the time of the last save, on a 24-hour clock in your own time zone. A save problem shows here instead, in red. See When a save fails.
• Why publishing is held, in red, when something needs fixing. See What holds publishing.
• Discard draft, while your draft differs from the published page. See Discard draft.
• View as visitor. See View as visitor.
• ⋯, holding Make page private while the page is public. See Make page private.
• The publish button. See Publishing.

The panel

The Blocks tab shows, from the top:

1. Get your page ready, until your first publish. See Get your page ready.
2. Your page: every block on the page, in order, with the number of blocks beside it (the Header counted). See Reading Your page.
3. Add a block: the blocks you can add. See Adding a block.

Opening a block replaces the panel with that block's editor. All blocks, at its top, or Done, at its foot, brings the panel back.

The Design tab holds the page's look. See Design. A small red dot on the tab means the colours are holding publishing.

On a wide screen, the button beside the two tabs collapses the panel to a thin strip, so the preview has the room. The button on the strip opens it again, and so does opening any block. The strip carries the same red dot.

The preview

Across its top, Preview and a Desktop / Phone switch. Phone draws the page in a frame 400 pixels wide, in one column, as a phone shows it. It changes only your view, never the page.

• Click a block to select it. It gets a blue outline and a small bar over its top-right corner: a grip to drag it by, its name, up and down arrows, More actions (Hide from page and Remove block) and Edit. The Header's bar has only its name and Edit.
• With an editor already open, clicking another block opens that block's editor straight away.
• Click empty space around the page to clear the selection.
• An empty block shows a dashed box with a prompt, such as "Add a label and a link." Visitors never see it.
• A hidden block shows as a strip, "Hidden from your page: Press quotes", with Show.
• On a project without Pro, a Contact form shows as a strip too, "Contact form shows on your page with Pro.", with Get Pro, hidden or not. It cannot be selected in the preview: open, move, hide or remove it from its row in Your page. See Contact form.
• Links, Play buttons and the contact form do nothing in the preview. A click on them selects the block. To try them, use View as visitor.

With the keyboard, Tab to a block and press Enter or Space to select it; press it again to open its editor. Escape steps back one thing at a time: it cancels a drag or a block you are placing, closes a menu, then clears the selection.

What a new page starts with

The first time you open Page, it builds a starter page from your project's details.

The Contact form is part of the starter only when the project has Pro the first time you open Page. Without Pro, the page starts without one. A project that takes Pro later does not get one added: add it from Add a block. See Contact form.

What it fills in from Details:

• The Header uses the Poster layout when the project has a poster, and Title only when it has none. Its tagline is your logline.
• The Trailer video takes your trailer link, but only when it is a Vimeo or YouTube link.
• About takes your synopsis.
• Cast and crew takes every credit whose role contains "Director" (on a screenplay, "Writer"), with its name and role.
• The Contact form, with Pro, introduces you: "For programmers, press and distributors. Messages go to Ana Ruiz."
• The design is the Studio theme, in the Side column layout, on a solid background.

Anything your details do not have is left empty, and empty blocks stay off your page, so a starter page never shows a blank box to a visitor.

The starter is a copy, made once. Changing your logline, synopsis, trailer link or credits on Details afterwards does not change these blocks. Only the Header's title, details line and poster keep following Details. See Header.

Get your page ready

A card at the top of the Blocks tab, until your first publish. It reads "Your public page for Lantern Field. Share it with programmers, press and audiences." ("producers, managers and competitions" on a screenplay), with a count such as 3 of 6 beside its title.

Hide takes the card away for good. It also goes by itself once the page is published.

Blocks

Adding a block

Add a block, at the foot of the Blocks tab, lists what you can add in two groups, each A to Z:

• Your content: Cast and crew, Contact form, Images, Link, Press quotes, Screenings, Social links, Text, Video and Where to watch.
• From FilmScorecard: Laurels, with the line "These fill themselves from your festivals and stay up to date."

On a project without Pro, the Contact form carries a Pro pill, here and in the + list. It still adds: it goes into your draft, but does not show on your page until the project has Pro. See Contact form.

Link, Text, Video and Images can go on the page as many times as you like. Every other block goes on once, and its tile leaves the list while it is there.

There are three ways to add one:

1. Pick, then click. Click a tile. It turns blue, and the line above the tiles reads "Click a spot on the page to put Video there." Dashed slots reading Put Video here appear between the blocks in the preview: click one. Add to the end puts the block at the bottom instead, and Cancel (or Escape) gives up.
2. Drag a tile onto one of those slots.
3. The +. Hover over the space between two blocks in the preview. A dashed line and a round + appear; click it for a list of the blocks that can go there.

The new block's editor opens, and the preview scrolls to it.

In the Side column layout, Header, Social links and Link sit in the side column and everything else in the main column. A slot or a + only offers a block where it can go, and picking Link or Social links adds "On desktop it goes in the side column." to the line. See Desktop layout.

A page holds at most 60 blocks, the Header counted. At 60, every way of adding is refused with "That is the most this page takes."

Moving a block

• In Your page, drag a row by its grip. A blue line shows where it will land. Or focus the grip and use the up and down arrow keys.
• In the preview, select the block, then drag it by the grip on its bar to a slot reading Move Press quotes here, or press its up and down arrows. In the Side column layout the arrows and slots keep a block in its own column.
• Dragging near the top or bottom edge of the panel or the preview scrolls it.

The Header is always first. It cannot be moved, and nothing can go above it.

Hiding a block

Hide from page is in a row's ⋯ menu in Your page, and under More actions on the preview's block bar.

• A hidden block keeps everything in it. It carries a Hidden pill in Your page and shows as a strip in the preview.
• Show on page, in the same menu, or Show on the strip, brings it back.
• Visitors never see a hidden block.
• Hiding counts as a change, and a mistake inside a hidden block still holds publishing. See What holds publishing.

The Header cannot be hidden.

Removing a block

Remove block is in a row's ⋯ menu in Your page, under More actions on the preview's block bar, and at the foot of the block's editor. It asks first:

Remove Press quotes? Its content leaves your draft. Discard draft brings it back until you publish. Cancel Remove block

Confirming shows "Block removed from your draft." The Header cannot be removed.

Reading Your page

Each row has a grip, the block's name, its pills, a short summary and a ⋯ menu (Edit block, Hide from page or Show on page, and Remove block).

• The name is a Link's label, a Text's heading or a Video's title when it has one, and otherwise the kind of block.
• Auto, on the Header and Laurels, means the block fills itself: the Header from your project's details, Laurels from your festivals.
• The summary says what is in it, such as 3 images, 2 people or Poster, tagline and details.
• A grey name means the block will not reach visitors: its summary reads "Empty, not on your page yet", or starts "Hidden.".
• Pro, on a Contact form in a project without Pro, means it will not reach visitors until the project has Pro. Its name is grey and its summary reads "Shows on your page with Pro".
• The Header reads Always first, and has no grip and no menu.

Clicking a row opens its editor and scrolls the preview to the block.

The block editor

Every editor has the same frame: All blocks at the top, the block's name and one line about it, its fields, then Remove block (not on the Header), Done, and "Changes save to your draft. Publish puts them on your page."

Lists. A block made of several items — images, quotes, people, screenings and so on — numbers them (Quote 1, Quote 2), each with up and down arrows and Remove, and shows a count such as 3 of 6. At the limit, the add button gives way to "That is the most this block takes." Screenings have no arrows: they always show by date.

Headings. Laurels, Screenings, Press quotes, Cast and crew, Where to watch and the Contact form each have a Heading box, up to 40 characters. Leave it empty and the page uses the block's own heading, which the box shows in grey: "Leave it empty to use "What people are saying"."

Limits. A box with a limit counts as you type, such as 12 of 40. Most let you type past the limit: your draft still saves, but the box shows what to fix and publishing is held until you trim it.

Links. Every link box takes a full web address starting with https://. http:// is not accepted. The one exception is a video link, which may leave https:// off.

Text is shown exactly as you type it. Line breaks are kept; nothing becomes bold, a list or a link.

Every block and its fields

Header

Always first, on every page. It shows your project's title, the tagline, and a line of details such as "Short film, 12:47, 2026, Drama, Spain".

Under the fields, a card marked From your project details shows the title and the details line, and Edit project details opens the Details tab.

• The details line is the kind — Short film (40 minutes or less), Feature film, Film (no runtime yet) or Screenplay — then the runtime or page count, the year, the first genre and the country. A part with no value is left out.
• The title, details line and poster are your project's own. Change them on Details and the header follows, on your public page as well, with no need to publish.
• Poster with no poster, or Still with no still picked, draws the header as Title only.
• The tagline is the page's own copy. It starts as your logline, but changing one never changes the other.

Link

A button that opens any page: tickets, a review, your website.

It needs both a label and a link, or it stays off the page. Visitors' presses of it are counted as Link clicks on your Overview.

Social links

Up to 9, shown as a row of buttons in your order, each named for its platform.

Only rows with a link are shown. You can pick the same platform twice.

Text

A heading, a few paragraphs, or both.

Video

One Vimeo or YouTube link, and what is shown before it plays.

Nothing loads from Vimeo or YouTube until a visitor presses Play; the video then plays in place. A link that cannot be played on the page opens in a new tab instead. A visitor's first press on each visit is counted as a Video play on your Overview.

Images

Up to 12 images, in your order. One image shows large; two or more make a grid.

The images in your Images blocks are also the ones the Header's still, a Video's cover and the page background choose from.

Laurels

The festivals your project has been selected for or won at. A new page has no Laurels block: add one from From FilmScorecard in Add a block.

Laurels from festivals on FilmScorecard are added for you. Each one is a card marked From festivals in the editor, with the result, the festival's name, and the year and category:

• the result is Official Selection, Winner, Honorable Mention, Nominee, Finalist, Semifinalist or Quarterfinalist;
• it appears once the festival announces that result, and never for an entry still being considered, not selected or waiting on a decision;
• it shows first, carries a small Verified mark on the page, and cannot be edited or hidden on its own;
• it appears, changes or goes away by itself, with no need to publish, and is never counted as a change.

Your laurels, under them, are the ones you add from other festivals, up to 8:

Your own laurels carry no Verified mark.

Screenings

Readings or screenings, up to 10, always shown by date.

A screening needs a date or a venue to be shown. A missing one reads "Date to come", "time to come" or "Venue to come". The editor sorts the list by date when you open it, and adds new rows at the end until you open it again.

Press quotes

Up to 6 quotes, in your order.

Cast and crew

Up to 12 people, in your order.

Where to watch

Up to 4 places to watch, rent or buy, in your order.

Contact form

A form visitors use to write to you. It is part of Pro: see Creator Pro.

Without Pro, the Contact form stays off your page. You can still add it, edit around it and publish with it in your draft, but visitors never see it:

• its tile in Add a block and its row in Your page carry a Pro pill, and the row reads "Shows on your page with Pro";
• the preview shows the strip "Contact form shows on your page with Pro." with Get Pro;
• its editor holds only a card — Pro, Contact form, "Visitors write to you from your page without seeing your address. Included with Pro." and Get Pro — with Remove block and Done under it as usual.

Get Pro opens the dialog for getting Pro for this project. What the block holds is kept. A Contact form you have published appears on your page as soon as the project has Pro, with no need to publish again. If Pro ends, it leaves your page at once, and comes back the same way if you take Pro again.

With Pro, the editor shows the block's fields:

Under it, a line says where messages go: "Messages go to" and the address you sign in with. That address cannot be changed here, and visitors never see it. A second line reads "Messages also land in the Messages tab." — see Messages. The form's own fields are fixed: Your name, Email, Organisation (optional), Message and Send. Where messages arrive is in The public film page.

Uploading images

An image uploads the moment you pick it, and goes into your draft once it has arrived. Visitors see it once you publish.

1. Press Upload images in an Images block, or Upload photo for a person in Cast and crew. Your file chooser opens.
2. Each file shows a progress bar and Uploading…, then its thumbnail.
3. Your draft saves itself, as with any other edit.

JPG, PNG and WebP files are accepted. Your browser prepares each image before it is sent; the file on your computer is not touched.

If a file cannot be used, its row says why and nothing is added:

Picking an image

Which still (the Header), Which image (a Video's cover and the page background) choose from the images already in your Images blocks, each shown by its caption or as Still 1, Still 2 and so on. With none yet, they read "No images yet. Add some and pick one here." and Add images opens your first Images block, or adds one.

Removing an image from your Images block also clears it wherever it was picked.

Design

The Design tab, from the top. Everything on it is part of your draft and waits for publishing like any other edit.

Themes

Start from a theme sets the fonts, colours and button style together; you can change any of them below. A new page starts on Studio.

Changing a font, a colour or the link buttons leaves no theme picked. The layout and the background are not part of a theme, so changing them keeps it picked.

Desktop layout

• Side column: on wide screens your header, social links and link buttons stay in view on the left while the rest scrolls beside them. Phones get one column.
• Centred: one wide column on every screen, in block order.

Fonts

Heading font: Anton, Bricolage Grotesque, Instrument Serif, Libre Franklin, Unbounded or Young Serif. Body font: Archivo, Figtree, Instrument Sans, Libre Franklin or Source Serif 4. Each tile shows "Aa" in its font.

Colours

Background, Text and Accent, each with a swatch that opens your browser's colour picker and a box for the colour written out, such as #1E1B16. The box takes 3 or 6 letters and digits, with or without the #, and writes it out in full when you leave it. A colour it cannot read shows "Enter a hex colour, like #1E1B16." and holds publishing.

Two lines can appear under the colours:

• In red, holding publishing: "Your text is hard to read on this background. Pick a darker text colour or a lighter background to publish." (on a dark background, "a lighter text colour or a darker background").
• In amber, a warning only: "Your buttons may blend into the background. A darker accent will make them easier to spot." (on a dark background, "A brighter accent").

Link buttons

Filled or Outline, for every Link button that is not highlighted, and Square, Rounded or Pill for the corners — which sets the corners of everything on the page, not only the buttons.

Background

Solid, your background colour, or Image, one of your page's images (Which image) "shown dimmed behind your page", with your content on your background colour.

Made with FilmScorecard footer

The last row on the tab: whether your page shows the small "Made with FilmScorecard" badge at its foot.

• Without Pro, the row carries a Pro pill and a switch that stays on, with "Pro can take it off your page." and Get Pro. The footer is always on your page.
• With Pro, it is a switch you can turn off. Like everything else on the tab, it is part of your draft: the preview drops the footer straight away, and visitors see the change once you publish.
• If Pro ends, the footer comes back on your page at once, with no need to publish, and goes again the same way if you take Pro again.

Saving: autosave and the draft

There is no save button. Each edit saves your whole draft about a second after you stop typing, and straight away when you leave a box, leave the Page tab or press publish. Draft saved in the page bar shows the time of the last one.

• Your draft is only yours. Visitors see the page as you last published it, however much the draft has changed.
• Leaving with an edit not yet saved asks first: "You have unsaved changes on this page. Leave without saving them?" Closing the browser tab shows your browser's own warning.

When a save fails

The page bar reads "Couldn't save your draft" in red, with Retry. Your edits are kept in this tab: Retry sends them again, and so does your next edit. Until a save succeeds, leaving the tab asks first.

"One of your images didn't finish uploading. Add it again." in its place means an image in your draft never arrived. Remove that image, upload it again, and the next save goes through.

Two tabs at once

If the page is changed in another tab or on another device, this tab stops saving and shows:

This page was changed in another tab. Reload to keep editing. Reload

Reload opens the page as it now stands. Nothing more is saved from this tab until you do, and an edit you make here meanwhile is lost.

Publishing

The publish button, at the right of the page bar:

Publishing puts your draft up exactly as it is, and the next visitor sees it. Empty blocks and hidden blocks are left off, and so is a Contact form while the project does not have Pro. Every page ends with "Made with FilmScorecard" unless the project has Pro and you have switched it off. See Made with FilmScorecard footer.

• The first time, a dialog opens: Your page is live, "Anyone with the link can see it now. Edits stay in your draft until you publish again." It shows the address, a few places to use it under Where to use it, Copy link (which reads Copied once it has) and Done.
• After that, publishing shows "Published. 3 changes are live."
• Publishing a private page makes it public again: "Your page is public again."

How changes are counted. Each block you add, change, hide or remove counts as one change, however much you did to it. Moving blocks around counts as one, anything on the Design tab counts as one, and the Made with FilmScorecard footer switch as one more. Put something back the way it was and its change drops off the count. While the page is public, your Overview's Page card shows the same count. See Your projects.

What holds publishing

Publishing is held while anything on the page needs fixing — in every block, hidden and empty ones included. The red line beside the greyed button says why:

• "Fix colours to publish": a colour the box cannot read, or text that is hard to read on the background. See Colours.
• "Fix 2 fields to publish": that many boxes have a problem, each shown in red under the box itself.
• "Fix colours and 2 fields to publish": both.

Your draft keeps saving while it is held. The line clears as you fix each one.

Discard draft

Discard draft, in the page bar while your draft differs from the published page, throws away every change since you last published. It asks first:

Discard 3 changes? Your page goes back to what visitors see now. Cancel Discard

Before your first publish it reads "Your page goes back to the starter page." instead, and returns to the starter page as it was first made, not rebuilt from your details today.

Confirming shows "Draft discarded." There is no undo.

Make page private

Make page private, in the page bar's ⋯ menu while the page is public, acts at once and shows "Your page is private."

• The page's address stops showing it, to everyone, you included. See The public film page.
• Your draft and the published version are kept. The pill reads Private, Change appears beside the address, and the button reads Publish page.
• Publish page makes it public again, with whatever your draft holds.

When a page has been taken down

FilmScorecard can take a page down. It is then private, the page bar reads "This page was taken down. Contact support." and the publish button is greyed. You can still edit your draft and change the address. Once FilmScorecard lifts it, the page stays private until you publish again. To ask about it, see Contacting us.

View as visitor

View as visitor, in the page bar, shows your draft full screen, exactly as visitors would get it if you published now: no empty or hidden blocks, no builder controls. On a project without Pro that also means no Contact form, and the "Made with FilmScorecard" footer, whatever your draft holds. Its bar reads Draft preview, with Back to editing.

• It shows the draft, never the published page. To see what visitors see now, publish first.
• Links and Play work; the contact form's Send does not.
• It is the only way to see a private or unpublished page. Its address shows the page-not-found screen to everyone, you included.

Page address

Your page lives at filmscorecard.com/p/ followed by its address, such as lantern-field.

You can change it while the page is not public: before your first publish, or while it is private. Press Change beside the address in the page bar, or Check your page address in Get your page ready.

Choose your page address — This is the link you share. You can change it until you publish.

1. Type the new address after filmscorecard.com/p/.
2. Press Save address, or Enter. It shows "Page address saved."

Lowercase letters, numbers and single hyphens, from 3 to 60 characters. The box tells you what is wrong as you type:

While the page is public, the address is fixed, and Change is not shown. Make the page private first if you must change it.

An old address is not sent on to the new one. Anyone using a link with the old address gets the page-not-found screen, so change it before you share the link.

On a phone or a narrow window

• Below 1024 pixels wide, the preview takes the whole width and the panel becomes a sheet that slides in from the left. Open it with Blocks at the left of the page bar, and close it with the × at its top. Picking a block to add closes the sheet so you can tap where it goes; the "Click a spot on the page" line moves to the top of the preview. Opening a block from the preview opens the sheet on its editor.
• On a phone, the page bar keeps the publish button and moves View as visitor, Discard draft and Make page private into its ⋯ menu. The Draft saved time is not shown; a save problem or the reason publishing is held shows on a line under the bar.
• On a touch screen, the round + between blocks is always showing, and blocks drag by touch.

Related guides

• Your project's details: the title, runtime or pages, logline, synopsis, poster, trailer and credits the page reads.
• The public film page: who can open your page, what visitors see, and the messages they send you.
• Your projects: the sidebar, the Overview and its Page card, and the project switcher.
• The bell: what festivals are asking for, and sending it from your details.
• Your festival entries: the Festivals tab.
• Creator Pro: what Pro adds to a project, including the Contact form and taking the footer off.
• Messages: where a Pro project's Contact form messages land.