Bela Lampert

Optioned Screenwriter / Yoga Instructor

ScriptNotes In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] How To Add And Manage Script Notes In Final Draft 12 In this article we’ll have a look at the ScriptNotes Navigator. Oftentimes you or someone who’s reading your script will want to include different kinds of notes in your script. Let’s see how this works. In...

Compare Script Changes In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Compare Changes In Scripts With Final Draft 12’s “ScriptCompare” When you’re writing, over time most likely you will have accumulated several versions of your script with different changes or ideas. So, you might run into a situation where you want to compare two scripts to...

Character Navigator in Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Using Final Draft 12’s Character Navigator In this article we’ll have a look at the third tab in the navigator, which is the character navigator. This allows you to keep track of all the major and minor characters in your movie. Over the course of writing...

“Cheat” Your Way To A Lower Page Count With Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="65872"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Cheating In Final Draft 12 Screenwriters in general are constantly worried about their page count. That is because as a screenwriter you have to tell a complex story with vivid characters and amazing twists and turns, and since a page is roughly one minute of...

Creating Cast Lists In Final Draft 12

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="66973"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Create Cast Lists For TV Sitcom Scripts In Final Draft 12 Let’s have a look at cast lists in Final Draft. This is something that is especially interesting to sitcom writers. Cast lists are lists underneath the scene headings. It is a list of all the...

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...

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....

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...

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...

Writing With Final Draft Mobile

[vc_row][vc_column][templatera id="64679"][mkd_elements_holder][mkd_elements_holder_item][vc_column_text] Write Your Screenplay With The Final Draft Mobile App I honestly thought about not even making a video about this, the writing with the Final Draft Mobile App because it’s so straight forward, but anyway. Maybe you don’t have the app and want to see...