How To Write A Great Script With Final Draft 13

How To Write A Great Script With Final Draft 13
Published 3/2024
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Turn Your Idea for a Story Into a Screenplay

What you’ll learn

Turn an idea into a story outline

Organize a story using Final Draft

Write and edit a screenplay using Final Draft

Track changes in a screenplay using Final Draft

Share and collaborate on a screenplay online using Final Draft

Requirements

A copy of Final Draft 13 on a PC or Macintosh

(Earlier versions of Final Draft can also work but this course covers some features only available in Final Draft 13. In addition, the user interface of Final Draft 13 looks slightly different from the user interface of earlier versions of Final Draft)

You should feel comfortable using a PC or Macintosh at a beginner’s level

Description

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 What You Will Learn

Lecture 2 How to Watch Videos for the Macintosh and Windows Version of Final Draft
Lecture 3 Changing the User Interface (Windows version only)
Lecture 5 Three Ways to Choose Commands

Lecture 6 Creating a New Screenplay

Lecture 7 Closing and Opening Documents

Lecture 8 Saving Documents

Lecture 9 Using Nightmode, Zoom, and Focus Mode

Lecture 10 Undoing Mistakes

Lecture 11 Closing Documents and Exiting Out of Final Draft

Section 2: Understanding the Beat Board

Lecture 12 How the Beat Board Works

Lecture 13 Creating and Deleting a Beat, and Adding an Image

Lecture 14 Aligning Beats

Lecture 15 Viewing the Beat Board and Script Side by Side

Lecture 16 Using the Beat Board with the Outline Editor

Lecture 17 Creating a Script Outline

Lecture 18 What Makes a Good Story Idea?

Lecture 19 Creating a Title for Your Screenplay

Lecture 20 The Initial Question

Lecture 21 The Character Flaw and the Haunted Past

Lecture 23 Make Sure Every Scene Shatters Expectations

Lecture 24 The Importance of Genre in Story Telling

Lecture 25 Using Genre to Define Story Structure

Lecture 26 Applying Multiple Genres to Define a Multi-Dimensional Story

Lecture 27 Choosing an Ending Scene

Lecture 28 Choosing a Beginning Scene

Lecture 29 How the Beginning and Ending Work Together

Section 4: Defining the Structure of a Story

Lecture 30 Understanding the Structure of a Story

Lecture 31 Understanding the Symbol of Hope

Lecture 32 Examples of the Symbol of Hope

Lecture 33 The Two Halves of a Story

Lecture 34 Every Story is Defined by the Hero’s Character Flaw

Lecture 35 The Structure of Act I

Lecture 36 The Structure of Act IIa

Lecture 37 The Structure of Act IIb

Lecture 38 The Structure of Act III

Lecture 39 How the Symbol of Hope Defines the Four Act Structure

Section 5: Formatting a Screenplay in Final Draft

Lecture 40 Understanding the Four Basic Screenplay Formatting Elements

Lecture 41 Writing Scene Headings

Lecture 42 Writing Action
Lecture 43 Choosing Character Names

Lecture 44 Changing Character Names

Lecture 45 Storing Character Traits

Lecture 46 Writing Dialogue

Lecture 47 Writing Dialogue in Final Draft

Lecture 48 Highlighting Character Dialogue and Viewing Reports

Section 6: Editing a Screenplay

Lecture 49 Writing a Scene

Lecture 50 Organizing a Story Through Scene View

Lecture 51 Organizing a Story Through Index Card View

Lecture 52 Using Script Notes

Lecture 53 Using Bookmarks

Lecture 54 Reading Text Out Loud

Lecture 55 Combining Multiple Files

Lecture 56 Viewing Reports

Section 7: Collaborating on a Screenplay

Lecture 57 Tracking Changes in a Screenplay

Lecture 58 Comparing Script Versions

Lecture 59 Collaborating Over the Internet

Section 8: Ideas for Polishing a Screenplay

Lecture 60 The Initial Question and the Symbol of Hope

Lecture 61 The Character Flaw and the Conflict

Lecture 62 Fixing Dialogue

Lecture 63 What Genre and Secondary Genre Tells Your Story?

Lecture 64 Reviewing Scenes for the Initial Question, Symbol of Hope, and Genre

Lecture 65 Creating Mini-Goals in Every Scene

Lecture 66 Review Your Characters

Lecture 67 Reviewing the Two Halves of a Story

Section 9: Sharing Your Screenplay

Lecture 68 Using Watermarks

Lecture 69 Creating a PDF file

Lecture 70 Exporting a Screenplay and Beat Board

Section 10: Congratulations!

Lecture 71 Thank You

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