Transform your writing skills with Final Draft. Learn to create professional scripts through expert insights and industry-standard techniques in this comprehensive course.
This course helps you become a pro at using Final Draft, the top software for writing scripts. You’ll learn all the tricks and tips for making script creation a breeze, while also understanding what professionals expect when using this amazing tool.
Go from a writer to a professional style writer by fully understanding how to use Final Draft
Final Draft is the premier software for drafting scripts and screenplays in the entertainment industry. This course will demonstrate and teach the elements of the software. Students will become familiar with tips and tools that will ease the script creation process.
Industry Expert
Alejandro Seri is an award-winning, bilingual screenwriter and director. While a nineteen year old UCLA college student and screenplay writer he approached studio executive David Garcia with the idea of starting an alternative film school. With the help of ten additional students, they formed Cyberpix Film School in downtown Los Angeles.
Alejandro later shot his first feature film starring the late Francesco Quinn (The Shield, 24, Platoon). The film was very well received winning awards at the NY Independent Film Festival, the Romanian-American Film Festival and the Lake Tahoe International Film Festival.
After apprenticing as a trailer/poster copywriter at the renowned Intralink Film, Alejandro went on to work as a television promo and film trailer copywriter at New Films International. He then served as a story analyst with Script P.I.M.P. (Pipeline Into Motion Pictures) development services before returning to writing and directing his own feature screenplays. Alejandro wrote the award-winning screenplay, GRAIN and is represented by Mike De Trana of Anvil Entertainment. Prospect Park, producers of WILFRED and CRAZY HEART, recently wrapped production on Alejandro's script, FiNAL GIRL.
Alejandro joined Final Draft, Inc., maker of the world's number one professional scriptwriting software, in 2007 as the Marketing & Communications Director for both Final Draft, Inc. and Script magazine. He has served as Final Draft, Inc.'s Director of Educational Relations & Marketing since 2011. Alejandro teaches screenwriting and Final Draft tech classes online, in universities and at conferences and festivals.
</h1>Learn to effectively use Final Draft
Understand the professional expectations of using Final Draft Software
Learn why Final Draft is the Industry Standard
24 Lectures
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The course is not very clear and not comprehendable for a first time user, Especially the tab and enter key fuctions and elements. We are expected to know quite a bit about the software before we start. The instructions are not very clear. There are no examples of what they are trying to explain.
As advertised - a simple rundown of basic functions that nonetheless helped me understand backups, index views, the reformatter (which has changed my life!), bookmarks, the toolbar, and more.
I didn't need to learn how to write, I needed to learn how to use the software, and this gave me a strong knowledge of some basic functions that were all useful. Recommend.
Sim. Mas seria ótimo se as legendas fossem traduzidas em Português do Brasil.
The information is fine but the presentation is lackluster and at times distracting (Pages turning, mics moving, long pauses, missing edits.)
Although this is an older version of Final Draft. I think I can apply to this to Final Draft 12, the current version.
Like other reviewers, I noticed that this course didn't seem very polished. There were numerous re-takes left in the videos. But otherwise, the software overview was decent. I feel ready to explore Final Draft on my own now.
On last module, creating and saving templates, towards the end he gave the details to save for Apple but not word.
It was poor presentation for windows users.
While this course gave me a few hints on how to manipulate Final Draft, it didn't help me with what I was looking for. The course was concise about script structure. The course went from the script to the cards whereas the development of the screenplay, in my mind, goes from setting up the story with screen cards (ala Syd Fields) and then creating the script.
Also, I don't know what version of Final Draft was referred to and it appeared that the instructor was a Mac, not a Windows guy.
Anyway, not what I expected.
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Lexie J.
It was simple and concise. I would like a few more finessing/nuanced tidbits, but this class was a great foundational course.