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FINAL DRAFT 7 RELEASED Final Draft is now an even more powerful tool that allows you to write and see your script in a variety of new ways. It’s never been easier to upgrade – you can even download it! Many more features and improvements are planned and will be free via updates posted to our website. If you got this newsletter delivered to your mailbox, you’ll also get notices about the updates as they’re released. Get Ready for the Write of Your Life! Upgrade today online at http://www.finaldraft.com/orders/upgrade.html
or by phone at 800-231-4055 For more information about Final Draft 7, click here: http://www.finaldraft.com/fd/upgrade7.html Try Before You Buy! You’ll have two weeks to put it through its paces and see what it can do. [Documents are limited to 15 pages and will print with a watermark.] If at the end of the two weeks [or anytime before] you decide you’d like to take advantage of the low introductory price, just give us a call to buy a Final Draft 7 Customer Number, pop it in and it will completely unlock the program.
If you are already running Final Draft 7, you will want to update it. Please click here to download and install this free patch: This update fixes redraw issues and restores the Find/Replace function. Please note that you must be registered to be able to download the update. If you have not yet registered, you can do it from within Final Draft under Help/Register or on our website, www.finaldraft.com/register .
3. FINAL DRAFT AT NAB APRIL 19-22 IN LAS VEGAS 
Once again, we will be exhibiting at the National Association of Broadcasters' convention in Las Vegas. The expo will be held on April 19-22. Our booth is in the Las Vegas Convention Center, # SL5922. where we will be demonstrating Final Draft and Final Draft AV. Please come by to say hello and to learn more about our programs. For more information about the show in general, please log onto their site: http://www.nabshow.com/
We’re now accepting entries for our screenwriting competition, which seems to be growing in prestige every year. While we usually talk up the prizes and successes of past winners, it’s high time to introduce some of the accomplished judges who have evaluated the finalists in years past:
This year’s panel will be no less distinguished.
If you can impress enough of the judges, they’ll grab your foot
and pull it through that door. For all the information on how to submit
your script, please click here: http://www.finaldraft.com/bigbreak/index.html We still want to talk up the successes of past winners, though.
Current Version Information: To determine which version of Final Draft 7 you have, go to Help/Customer Support. If you do not have the current version you should download, then install, this free update. How? It’s easy: Just follow the instructions at http://www.finaldraft.com/downloads/index.html. If you do not want to download the free update, a CD with the update installer can be purchased for $20. Please contact the Sales Department at 800-231-4055. Please note that you must have Final Draft 7 already installed to your hard drive to install the 7.0.0.33 update. The 7.0.0.33 update will not update Version 6 and lower. Tech Tip
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SYD FIELD, NATALIA LAZARUS and
PIERO DUSA present The upcoming three-day intensive Workshop, The Matrix of Character Preference?: Unlocking the Mysteries of Character is a revolutionary Screenwriting and Fiction workshop providing cutting-edge technology for writers, actors, directors, and producers. The participants expand their knowledge in how to identify key script elements needed to create riveting and multi-dimensional characters. More than 65,000 students have taken Field’s workshops and seminars worldwide. Some of his former students are:
Friday-Sunday, April 30—May
2, 2004 at the Promenade Playhouse, Santa Monica, California Upcoming Workshop:
THE NEW YORK FILM ACADEMY IS
PROUD TO PRESENT THURSDAY APRIL 15TH 1pm –
3pm Exhibitors include film networking organizations, Final Draft, B&H Photo and Video, Apple, Final Cut Pro, Kodak, Movie Magic Scheduling and Budgeting and many more! Special pricing will be available for attendees. The New York Film Academy offers hands-on filmmaking, screenwriting and Acting For Film workshops in New York City, Universal Studios, in California and King’s College in UK. During the Summer, NYFA also runs program at Harvard University (Massachusetts), Princeton University (New Jersey), Disney-MGM Studios (Florida), New York City, and our overseas locations in Paris, France and Florence, Italy. Please visit http://www.nyfa.com for information or call (212) 674-4300 for a detailed brochure.
SEE FINAL DRAFT 7 AND AV2 IN
ACTION
RES 10 EXHIBITIONS
Information: 310-826-1298 or events@res.com LOS ANGELES NEW YORK
An essential seminar for filmmakers and screenwriters…from
networking to visual writing with actual scripted scene studies and
real feature film clips! In 2 days, gain first-hand career knowledge
from a working director/writer/producer with an audio-visual workshop
of the skills and tools to take your project from page to shoot to finished
film. Los Angeles: April 24
& 25
MATT & BEN ARE COMING TO
HOLLYWOOD AND THE ACME THEATER! Final Draft subscribers can receive a $5 discount
if tickets are purchased by April 21st. For further information go to www.mattandben.com or www.Theatermania.com, or call Theatermania toll free at 866- 811-4111.
DIRECTING COMMERCIALS SEMINAR Taught by Craig Worsham, an experienced and working commercial director, you will learn everything about the process, from creating an effective spec reel to signing with a production company; from interpreting the storyboards to dealing with ad agencies and shooting that "30-second feature." This is valuable information you won't find anywhere else. San Francisco - May 1
& 2
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Marti
Blumenthal, Partner, Writers & Artists Agency; John Fasano, screenwriter;
Jeff Gordon, Founder, Writers Boot Camp; Kevin Williamson's Production
Co, Outerbanks Entertainment; Matthew Weinberg, Literary Manager, Guy
Walks into a Bar; Jim Mangold, writer and director (Copland,
Girl Interrupted, Heavy); Brent Armitage, Producer
(Gross Pointe Blank); Kathie Fong-Yoneda, Paramount Story Analyst
and author; Stephen J. Cannell and Lori Hughes, President and Production
Executive at Cannell Motion Pictures; John Truby and Syd Field, world-renowned
screenplay teachers, and Andrea McCall, head of Story Department at
Dreamworks.
Each
year, the RES Magazine editorial staff chooses the 10 filmmakers, video
artists, musicians and design collectives they think will have the most
impact on the fields of filmmaking, music video, broadcast design in
the coming year. The exhibitions will feature video projection, illustration,
painting and music.