That looks really nice, but I've had multiple people tell me it doesn't work well when you try to load the script into production software.
So it depends, again, on the purpose of the script.
To be honest? It really doesn't at all. When we write spec scripts? We should be writing them to be READ. Hence, why IT looks really nice. It's supposed to look really nice. It's supposed to read fast and easy. It should NEVER take you out of the story.
Shooting scripts are the scripts that go into production software. Those are a completely different animal. Which is why I have to smirk a bit when everyone says to just read screenplays to learn how to write a screenplay. 99% of the screenplays available ONLINE and for PURCHASE in Los Angeles are in fact, SHOOTING SCRIPTS.
Shooting scripts are screenplays normally written and or collaborated on by the director and cinematographer... Although, sometimes they will bring the screenwriter into the mix... Maybe even some other people working on the film but usually, it's the director and cinematographer creating an actual PRODUCTION SHOOTING SCRIPT from the spec screenplay that got everyone interested in the first place.
So while one can learn how to write screenplays from reading nothing but shooting scripts? In my humble opinion, this is just one tool in the toolbox and if you're only using one tool to build a house? Well, you get the picture.
A spec script -- as we already know -- is a screenplay written “on speculation.” In other words, there is no contract or development taking place. You're just CREATING on your own. Of course, as the screenwriter, you certainly hope your spec is going to gain interest that ends up translating into a sale... If not a sale? Then hopefully, work. Specs are how most screenwriters break into the industry.
Having said that... The spec that sells and the shooting script eventually TRANSCRIBED from the original spec are two completely different manuscripts.
To make NOTE of your comment... If there's something in a spec that may not load into some production software? It gets REWRITTEN so that it does load into the production software. That's why there are shooting scripts. That's why shooting scripts are created.
Shooting scripts contain all kinds of STUFF spec scripts should really never have... Things like, SCENE NUMBERS, TITLE SEQUENCES, CAMERA DIRECTION, etc. In addition to that? An ORIGINAL spec script that sold may be an almost flawless looking manuscript but once transcribed into a shooting script by completely different people? One can wonder how the damn thing sold in the first place because a lot of the suggestions people like myself make to people wanting to BREAK IN to the world of screenwriting almost immediately point out some shooting script they learned something from. Possibly, a shooting script written by someone who doesn't even know a lot about screenwriting in the first place... LOL. All they're really doing is TRANSCRIBING the writing that SOLD (because it reads and looks nice) into a blueprint for shooting a movie. At the point of transcription? Nobody's worried about passive voice and secondary scene location headings.
This could be DIFFERENT with some Indie films -- especially super low and no budget Indies but I've been involved in two Indie films that played in theaters and this is in fact, how it was done on our end.
Bottom line? Spec scripts are written to be READ. They're written to be SOLD. They're written to create a VISUAL in the READER'S mind. A movie, if you will. Shooting scripts are not written with any of that in mind. They are written to SHOOT the movie from. Plain and simple.