Speaking of different screenwriting schools does not necessarily mean schools as places or buildings but rather as style preferences. Nowadays, each country has its own screenwriting schools to satisfy the need of a home-produced film industry. As follows, it is a hopeless task to compare all of these; there are just too many. However, one can crystallize axes of screenplay traits that are more or less prominent in each particular school.

The first axe can be found with regard to the audience orientation. Some writers prefer to write for the audience that is also targeted by the film. Others use a more technical style to communicate with the film crew in first place. Whereas the formers are more ‘readable’ and therefore sellable to others than the film industry, the second is full of terms that are foreign to the average person.

Another axe is the distinction of experience and action. Experience orientated writers allow themselves to include more inner dialogues, dreams, or flashbacks, whereas action oriented authors tend to create a storyline that can get along without such items, since action as well codifies the characters. These do not have to think aloud but get their voice from the actions.