Today and last night, I've spent a good amount of time writing the screenplay to a currently untitled movie for the Residence Hall Film Festival at Iowa State University. Making this process easier is proper screenwriting software. A lot of people use Final Draft and the software is, as far as I can tell, an industry standard. I however am a big fan of CeltX.
CeltX is open source screenwriting software compatible with Mac, Win and Linux OS. There are a few things that's hard to do in it (like add speech subtext in the middle of dialogue), but for the most part does a high quality job. Collaboration servers can be set up for use in collaborative writing and I used this software through my screenwriting class. The importer was good enough to pull in plain text versions of poorly formatted Microsoft Word screenplays.
I suggest looking at the CeltX Wikipedia page to get a little more info if you're unsure what software to use. Otherwise, you can download the software at www.celtx.com.
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