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| Contents of This Issue: |
Volume 5, Number 12 |
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4. Final Draft Presents: Apple Store Movie Showcase Final Draft Presents: Apple Store Movie Showcase is a monthly series designed to allow Apple Store customers to showcase the movies they have made on their Mac. Whether it's an independent avant-garde short film or a family slideshow, the Movie Showcase allows people to invite their friends and celebrate what they have made. Submissions in DVD format must be mailed or hand-delivered to the Apple Store, Third Street Promenade no later than January 21, 2006 to the attention of Niten Kapadia. Included in the submission should be the title, length, and author. The first Final Draft Presents: Apple Store Movie Showcase is slated for 6pm January 28th at the Apple Store, Third Street Promenade 1248 Third Street Promenade Santa Monica, CA 90401. Check the On the Road Section below for further details |
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5. On the Road Come see demonstrations of Final Draft and Final Draft AV and have your questions answered by our representatives.
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6. Ask the Pros Monthly Excerpt This new monthly feature will have a question excerpted from the Final Draft book, Ask the Pros: Screenwriting, now available for sale through www.finaldraft.com. Click on the link below to learn what screenwriting professionals have to say.
For the answer, and an archive of previously featured excerpts,
visit: Visit: www.finaldraft.com/orders to purchase the book. |
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| 7. Customer Support / Tech Tip The current version of Final Draft 7 is 7.1.1 Please log on to this web page for Final Draft 7 current version information: To determine which version of Final Draft 7 you have, open the program and go to Help > Customer Support. If you have an online connection, go to Help > Program Updates. If your Final Draft needs to be updated, you will automatically be forwarded to the appropriate download page. IMPORTANT: If you have Mac OS9, the current version is 7.0.0.54. The 7.1.1 update is not supported on OS9. Final Draft AV 2.5 includes the revolutionary new Rearrange
Guide Line as well as expanded importing and exporting capabilities.
Please log on to this web page for AV 2.5 information: The current version of Final Draft 6 is 6.0.6.0 To determine which version of Final Draft 6 you have, go to Help >
Technical Support. If you do not have the current version you should download,
then install, the free update. To download the update, go to: Please note that you must have Final Draft 6 already installed to your hard drive to install the 6.0.6.0 update. The 6.0.6.0 update will not update Final Draft 7, Final Draft 5 or earlier versions. Tech Tip |
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8. Contact Us To respond to this email, DO NOT CLICK REPLY; it will only bounce back to you. Comments and suggestions should be directed to newsletter@finaldraft.com. NOTE: Support questions sent to the above address will not be answered. If you have a question you would like answered via email, visit www.finaldraft.com/help. You can search for an answer from our database of almost 900 sales and technical questions. If you still can't find the information you need, click the Ask a Question tab on any answer page. If you want your name to be removed from the Final Draft mailing list,
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9. Writers' Resources Writemovies.com Writing Contest #10
Writemovies.com is in its seventh year of helping writers find representation to option or sell their screenplays and helping novelists secure publishing deals and playwrights get produced. WriteMovies.com is one of only a handful of sites that has actually made a movie from a contest winning project. The Grand prize winner will receive $3,000 and will be flown out to Los Angeles to meet with producers, executives, agents and/or managers. The finalist will also receive $1,000 in free consulting and development for the winning project. The top 3 winners will not only receive a copy of Final Draft software, but will also have their projects submitted to the top studios, production companies, agencies and/or publishing houses for consideration. Extended deadline for Final Draft Registered User is postmarked by Dec
16th. WriteMovies.com also offers consulting services by producers and former studio executives in charge of such films as Father of the Bride, Shakespeare in Love and Scarface. For additional details, discounts and rules:
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The #1 Pitch Event Fade In's 12th Annual Pitchfest
Million Dollar Screenwriting Seminar -- Saturday and Sunday February 18th and 19th Only! $100 off for Final Draft Registered Users! Special X-mas discounts on Ebook and DVD set! Produced screenwriter Chris Soth, will reveal the Mini-Movie Method of Story that's made him over a million dollars in Hollywood. Breaking a two-hour movie into eight fifteen-minute films, Mini-Movies, or sequences -- an industry secret not taught in any other course, book, or seminar. Once you learn Mini-Movies, you'll never go back to three-act structure again! "...the most significant revelations in screenplay and writing theory
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Directing Commercials Seminar and DVD Breaking into the lucrative field of Commercial Directing can be a daunting
task. Craig Worsham's 2-day seminar teaches everything you need to know
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Attention San Francisco Bay Area Screenwriters! Dan Stroncak’s Write The Idea Introductory Weekend: BEFORE STORY: DESIGNING AN ORGANIC SCREENPLAY Dan Stroncak's WRITE THE IDEA screenwriting course BEFORE STORY: DESIGNING AN ORGANIC SCREENPLAY is an intensive weekend seminar designed to help you begin the process of writing a high concept movie to peak the interest of Hollywood producers. Led by Hollywood executive and screenwriter, Dan Stroncak (currently working on studio projects), this two day workshop will cover organic screenwriting, a discussion on creating the protagonist’s central conflict and weaving it into the fiber of your script, a review and discussion of how this concept occurs in current films, how to develop a beat sheet, how to perform writing exercises and question & answer periods. Where: 102 Crown Circle, South San Francisco, CA 94080. When: Jan. 21 & 22, 2006 – 9 AM – 5 PM Cost: Just $50.00 for both days. The weekend is designed to be a complete workshop within itself, HOWEVER, if you choose to join us for the six-month Write The Idea workshop (both online and live in SF), we will deduct your $50.00 fee from the Write The Idea costs.
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