Learning Screenwriting with Final Draft 12

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.

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