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Learning Screenwriting with Final Draft 12

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Overview

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Discover how to create and format scripts. Join Oscar-nominated screenwriter Roger S.H. Schulman as he shows how to use this powerful software to go from outline to final draft.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Final draft is a screenwriting power tool
  • What we will and won't be covering
1. What's with All the Formatting?
  • A brief history of screenwriting
  • Basic elements
  • Make formatting a tool, not an obstacle
2. Your Script's New Home
  • Final Draft user interface
  • Making the Toolbar your own
3. Starting a New Script
  • Choosing a template
  • Just beat it
  • Be an outlier in outlining
  • Index Card view
  • Best practices
4. Faster Formatting Facilitates Finishing
  • Say hello to your little friends
  • Go To and Find
  • Other keyboard shortcuts
  • MORE, CONTINUED, and other frills
  • Creating your own macros
  • Format Assistant
5. Ahoy, Navigator!
  • Scenes Navigator and Scene view
  • ScriptNotes Navigator
  • Character Navigator
6. Revisions
  • Track changes
  • Alt Dialog
  • Comparing two drafts
  • Let's collab!
7. Importing and Exporting
  • What Final Draft can import
  • Reformatting
  • Exporting
8. Tips and Tricks
  • Splitting the window
  • Cheating
  • Creating a spike file
9. Final Draft for iOS
  • The Final Draft Mobile interface
  • Importing and exporting in iOS
  • Normal, Page: Two very different views
  • Throwing a wrench into the works
Conclusion
  • There’s even more
  • Goodbye and good luck

Taught by

Roger S.H. Schulman

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