Learning Screenwriting with Final Draft 10

Description

In this course, you will learn:

• The history of screenwriting
• Basic script elements
• Reviewing the Final Draft user interface
• Customizing the Final Draft toolbar
• Using the new Beat Board
• Using index cards
• Creating your own macros
• Working with the Format Assistant
• Using the new Story Map
• Making revisions
• Importing and exporting scripts from Final Draft
• Working with Final Draft Writer for iOS

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

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