Bela Lampert

Optioned Screenwriter / Yoga Instructor

Watermarking In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Secure Your Script With Watermarks In Final Draft 12 In this lesson we’ll look at how to assign a watermark to a script when you print it or pdf it. Sometimes you want to give a script a watermark before you hand it to someone either...

Everything Is A Filter

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Everything Is A Filter How much of a book do you read before you put it aside and decide it’s not for you. How much of a TV show do you watch before you go looking for something else? How much of an article do you read? How...

Reports In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Exporting Script Information Via Reports In Final Draft 12 (Note: Screenshots are from verison 11, but Reports work the same way in Final Draft 12) Sometimes you as a writer or maybe the production departments needs an overview of certain script information to plan the shoot....

The Cost of Goals

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Cost of Goals I went hiking the other day. I took my camera and I wanted to reach a beautiful mountain lake in the north of Spain. Usually you can get there by car, but the road was closed due to covid restrictions. So I went on...

Time vs. Quality

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Time vs. Quality If you have little time, you’re more likely to succeed if you do a little work very well instead of a lot of mediocre work. To do what you do with more inspiration: [/vc_column_text][vc_column_text][/vc_column_text][/mkd_elements_holder_item][/mkd_elements_holder][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64969"][/vc_column][/vc_row]...

Scene Numbers In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="66973"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Scene Numbers In Final Draft 12 (Note: Screenshots are from version 11 but it works the same way in Final Draft 12.) In this article we’ll have a look at scene and page numbers. This is a very important part of the pre-production and production phase...

The Emotional Equivalent Of Fatty Food

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Emotional Equivalent Of Fatty Food We crave food that is not good for us. Not all the time, but way too often. But why is that? I read somewhere that the reason for this is that the body constantly tries to prepare for an emergency situation. When we...

Final Draft Revision Colors

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Setting Up And Using Revisions In Final Draft What Are Revisions? Revisions are essentially script pages that have been changed after the page and scene numbering of a script has already been locked. Since it’s important in the pre-production and production phase of a movie that...

I Already Know This

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] I Already Know This The moment you assume that you already know something, what happens? When you’re in a class and the teacher is about to talk about a topic that you think you already know everything there is to know about, what happens? When someone tells...

The Perfectionist Puzzle

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] The Perfectionist Puzzle Probably you know this: When you’re writing, you keep adding new bits and pieces, and all of a sudden you realize that one or more pieces don’t fit. At least not the way you intended to. And depending on which pieces you want to keep,...