Do I need to put my title and name on the cover of my screenplay?

It can't hurt. I usually print a label and stick it on the cover (which is too stiff to go through my printer). If you don't, it won't matter. As long as the info's on the title page.

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Your cover should be blank and the card stock should be white or off-white. No intense flashy colors or artwork.

Title and by "your name" in the center of the first page, and contact information at the bottom left or bottom right. Make sure you register your script with the WGA but don't put the registration number on the title page.

The thing about the WGA reg. # not going on the title page appears to depend on who you send the script to. I always hear you shouldn't include it, but lo and behold I got a request for one of my scripts last week and the producer requested the WGA reg # be included on the title page.

As for the original question -- no, you do not include your name and title on the cover. It should be blank. The title will likely be written on the spine of your script once it gets into the hands of a reader/exec/etc. so you need not worry about it.

whats the difference between the cover page and fly page?

please excuse my noobiness

Cover page = the card-stock cover you put your script in, three-hole punched, brass brads in the top and bottom holes (middle is left empty). Your cover should be white (I used to buy scripts from a script service who sent them in a light-blue card stock, but understand it's not the norm) and completely blank, nothing on the front or back.

Again, the reader/exec/producer/etc. will more than likely write the title on the spine of the script; that way as they go down their stack of scripts, or along their rack of scripts, the titles are plain to see.

Fly page: I've never heard this term used before. I'm thinking, however, that it's the same as a "splash" page, which itself is for the most part the first page (of your script -- not the title page).

If anyone can correct me on the fly page, thing, though, please feel free.

Ahh ok then. I see. Thanks.

So the name and your contact info only goes on the title page and nothing else?

Here's a link that might interest you. The first page is the title page, with title-by-author centered just above the middle of the page, and author contact info at the bottom.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scriptsmart/screenplay.pdf

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