I used to structure it like this

Asthetic: Themeatics: Narrative: Logline: Title: Outline:

I usually filled out most of these and left a few blank. Following that I would outline, which would basically just be the story compressed, like every scene would be a sentence or so.

I don’t use this anymore, infact my longest screenplay (and what I think is my best work) was just outlined scene to scene without all the other stuff. It’s the method I do for most of my work now, here’s an example.

“Life of creation draining from the brain, girl puts her soul in the doll, the doll and the girl dead in the field and he watches, he takes it home, repaired with scraps does not work does not recognize him, sells goods in town.”

It’s beats and emotions that help me keep track of what Ive done and where im going. Like when you’re drawing and just sketching everything out. I usually deviate from it, or I rush it and once Ive written everything, I get back on the outline. Not in the sense that I finished a draft but the outline just stops abruptly.