In the latest few years, Moleskine has celebrated the magic of cinema with a wide range of custom-made notebooks, featuring special editions dedicated to international film festivals and prominent film directors. Those include names such as
Tim Burton, Mike Figgis, Spike Jonze and Detour Shanghai's author Zhang Yuan, as not to mention some of the hottest movie rendezvous like the
Tribeca Film Festival, the
Locarno Film Festival, and the
Venice Film Festival. That's just a part of Moleskine's tribute to the Cinema, though.


If you are a cinema addicted and keep thinking on movies, writing your own screenplay, or can't stop drawing settings and characters, Moleskine has conceived two different creative tools to give vent to your passion, the
Film Journal and the
Storyboard Notebook. The former, is a
personal movie guide to fill with reviews and impressions, featuring an alphabetically organized section, a film festival list and 12 blank
pages to set your imagination free. The latter, is perfect to script and sketch any kind of inspirations, availbale in two different formats with sequence of
storyboard frames for drawing mini-stories. The larger version has 104 pages with 4 frames per page.

For some reason, there are lots of storyboarding notebooks around, but no screenwriting notebooks. I want a regular lined notebook with three additional vertical lines. The outer two would be the boundaries for dialog, and the inner line would represent where character names go. I'd buy a ton of them if Moleskine made them (or if anyone else made them).
I'm still hoping you'll make a companion Film Journal for Industry Professionals, one that allows us to take down the info that is important to us like running times, distributor/production company, screenwriting & other major crew members, etc. We don't need a place for "quotes" but one for a Synopsis. A place for writing down director profiles or cinematography would be cool (not necessarily in the lettered tabs)as well as a place to write down news & rumors. This is just thinking off the tob of my head, but as a professional, the Film Journal needs just a little bit more than what is being offered currently.