Final Draft contains a wide variety of templates for graphic novels, scripts, TV shows and text documents (query letters, treatments, outlines, etc). Each template contains features of each script type, with element settings, page layouts, header and footer settings, mores and continueds, title pages, SmartType lists and macros. Final Draft’s television templates contain formatting guidelines (with sample text), establishing how each show displays its scenes and acts, and transitions between shots. [Read more…]
Learn how to write a screenplay through detailed analysis of feature films.
Recent SHT
Breakfast Club Sculpture
File this one under closing image masterclass. I don’t know how many times I’ve seen the Breakfast … [Read More...]
What’s the Climax of Good Will Hunting?
People email questions from time-to-time. I've always answered these questions. I've also always … [Read More...]
Jurassic World, Jurassic Values
httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CofZ7xjGyI8 If there’s one thing to learn from this video, and … [Read More...]
Recent Analysis
L.A. Confidential
Director Curtis Hanson and his co-writer, Brian Helgeland, have taken a massively complex novel by … [Read More...]
Vertigo
At the very beginning of the movie, we see Scottie vaulting across rooftops, struggling to keep up … [Read More...]
The Shawshank Redemption
Frank Darabont has often compared The Shawshank Redemption to a Rorschach test. Written and executed … [Read More...]