Is this really your final draft?

Upon my arrival home this fine San Francisco evening, my upgrade version of Final Draft was awaiting me in my mailbox. For those of you that don't know, Final Draft is the "professional scriptwriting software." Logic states that just by using it I am a professional, right? This is the program that is used by most industry professionals writing for movies and television in Hollywood today. Being that I haven't got a chance to play around with it yet, I can't tell you how much I like or dislike this version (8.0) over the previous (7.0). I just wanted to share my excitement about coming home to a new toy!!

Speaking of Final Draft, they announced this week that they are working on an application for the soon-to-be ubiquitous Ipad.

AND... speaking of screenplays, I am reading Good Will Hunting with Inglorious Basterds next on my book-shelf.

-b

*insert tampon joke here* -or- OMG YOU GUYS!!! THE IPAD IS COMING!!

The only thing I really know about the ipad is that I was really tired of hearing about it leading up to the announcement of it. So let's talk more about it, right? Right? Who's with me?

*crickets*

There have been some really cool filmmaking apps that have been released for the iphone, but that isn't what I am talking about now, BUT I will talk about at a later date. Excited?!?! As you should be. Both with that and my run-on sentence that started this paragraph. What I am covering today is how the ipad will help the filmmaker. Being that I still have trouble referring to myself as a filmmaker, I am going to pass the torch to to some much smarter and more experienced folks than me in the art of filmmaking and the aid of an ipad. (Yes that's correct, I am linking other blog entries to my blog. How lazy is that?)

Screenwriter extraordinaire John August on the ipad and screenwriting.

Fresh HDV and the ipad and creative types.

Enjoy.
-b