Final Draft


What: Screenwriting software

By: Final Draft, Inc.

Cost: $229

Download: www.finaldraft.com

Final Draft is a specialized word processor for writing scripts and screenplays. It automatically formats each element of the screenplay (scene heading, action, dialogue transition, and so on). You can also generate several different reports with it, such as location, scene, and character reports. It includes multiple templates for movie screenplays and stage plays, and even ones for over 50 popular television shows (some no longer in production). The latter group offers tips such as the number of acts and pages a specific show usually uses. The software also can generate "index cards" that can be rearranged, making scene reordering easy. Final Draft also allows Internet collaboration.

The figure shows the product's user interface with one of the predesigned show templates, this one for the medical drama "ER."

Why I like it: Final Draft frees you from having to worry about mundane, but important, formatting conventions. Even a novice can generate a professional-looking script with it.



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ISBN: N/A
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Year: 2004
Pages: 146

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