Write Your Screenplay With Final Draft 12

Learn how to creat Industry Standard Screenplays with one of the most used Screenwriting Software for Movies and TV!

What you'll learn

Plan and outline your story with the beat board and the outline editor

Know how to create a format a script to industry standard

Create and manage Script Elements like Scenes, Characters, Character Arcs, Notes, and more

Know how to use Production Features to handle Script Changes during a shoot

Requirements

No prior experience with writing software needed. You should have general knowledge about opening, saving and copying files on Mac or Windows.

Description

This is a thorough Final Draft course that will teach you a lot more than just the basics.If you're fairly new to screenwriting, you will learn how screenplay software and screenplay formatting works, and in what way screenwriting software is different from other writing software that you might know (e.g. Microsoft Word).You will learn to create correctly formatted screenplays.You will also learn how to plan your story before you even start to write.Final Draft offers man tools that can help you plan and organize your story, so you don't write yourself into a corner.For users who already know and use Final Draft, this course will be a deep dive into practically all the features Final Draft has to offer. It even includes Production Features, in case you plan to use Final Draft to handle your script changes during a shoot.Get ready to take full advantage of the features of Final Draft that help you get your ideas on the page and hopefully on the movie screen or TV!This course also includes two tutorials about how to use ready-made project templates (Mini Movie Method, John Truby), to jump-start your story from the get-go. (The templates are included as downloads.)

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Welcome and Cheat Sheet

Lecture 2 Prerequisites

Lecture 3 About Writing Software

Section 2: The Screenplay Format

Lecture 4 Screenplay Formatting

Section 3: Finding Your Way Around

Lecture 5 The User Interface

Lecture 6 Script Views

Section 4: Preparations

Lecture 7 Index Cards

Lecture 8 Scene View

Lecture 9 Beat Board & Outline Editor

Section 5: Writing The Script

Lecture 10 Backing up your Script

Lecture 11 Templates

Lecture 12 Moving around in your Script

Lecture 13 Writing your Script

Lecture 14 Dual Dialogue

Lecture 15 Bookmarks

Lecture 16 Labels

Lecture 17 Find and Replace

Lecture 18 SmartType

Lecture 19 Macros

Lecture 20 Format Assistant

Lecture 21 MORE's and CONTINUED's

Lecture 22 Title Page

Section 6: The Navigator

Lecture 23 Scene Navigator

Lecture 24 Script Notes Navigator

Lecture 25 Character Navigator

Section 7: Writing Tools

Lecture 26 Spell Checker

Lecture 27 Narrator

Lecture 28 Name Database

Lecture 29 ScriptCompare

Lecture 30 Cheating

Section 8: Production Features

Lecture 31 Cast List

Lecture 32 Watermarking

Lecture 33 Reports

Lecture 34 Scene Numbers

Lecture 35 Revision Colors

Section 9: Importing & Exporting

Lecture 36 Importing

Lecture 37 Exporting

Section 10: ADDITIONAL MATERIAL

Lecture 38 Mini Movie Method Template

Lecture 39 John Truby Template

Lecture 40 LIVE Webinar Recording: From Beatboard to Outline Editor to Script

For Beginners who want to learn Final Draft from scratch.,For semi-advanced users who know the basics of Final Draft but don't use all the features.