How to Use Final Draft Ragger in EP Scheduling

Video Transcript

"Hi Chris Cobb for Expert Village. Welcome back. So if you've been breaking down your script with highlighters or if you've been highlighting it on the screen like I've been doing your well on your way. Your breaking down the script and your pulling out the elements and your inputting them into breakdown sheets. However if your tagging your script using Final Draft Tagger or the tagging motives Movie Magic Screenwriter you got to do things a little bit differently. Let me show you what I mean. So here we are with Final Draft which is one of the major screen writing programs in the film industry and if you have a printed out script in front of you this will all look very familiar but this is not how you break down a script with Final Draft. To break down a script with Final Draft you use a small component piece of software called Final Draft Tagger. Take a look. You have all these panes this is a line between the upper pane and the lower pane and these panes on the sides that say category and element. The first thing we do to tag a script in Final Draft Tagger is to import the script. Brings up a window select the right script and open it. Now this will usually take a few minutes so if your importing a script go get a refill on coffee, go take a break, do whatever you want to do it's going take a bit. Through the magic of editing we're going to leap ahead in the process and go right to the imported script. Let's take a look. It has this upper pain with the list of scenes from the movie and then below it has the scene itself that you've selected now remember how we color coded everything with markers well that's what they do here as well. They have their own color coding. You can live with these, you can change them if you'd like. We're not going to. We're just going to go ahead and use the colors they give us. So here we are back in the scene that we've been breaking down. Exterior Tini Bick's bar in Seattle night. Of course it's raining outside in Seattle. So go ahead and tag rain again. Now what are we using for that? We're using notes. Down here I click to make sure the category is selected and go and drag and hold it while it's raining outside and drag it into the element box. Over here. There it appears raining outside. Now take a look what happens in the script. It says raining outside. The reason it's black, well because notes its black and notice the little plus mark right next to it that means there's some element inside of this category. What we want to do now is say a vehicle. Then we select that up here and the categories and then we go down and we select cabs and then drag cabs over to the element box and when it appears notice it's in blue on the page because it's blue up here. So that's how you tag script in Final Draft Tagger. You go through and mark everything according to the categories and drag them into the right box and then when you're done with it you go ahead up to file and you export the schedule. So you click ok and later on I'll show you import that into EP Scheduling."