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Your pages contain the beginnings of a production plan. Mark

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the elements that turn a story into practical work. Put

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the cursor in a scene and choose Production, then Scene

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Production Status, or click the pencil of the scene in

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the scene navigator. Choose Draft, Approved, Scheduled, Shot or Cut,

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or type a status of your own. The status appears

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in the navigator, in the scene table and in the

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reports; the filter “With status” shows only scenes with an

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entry. Select the word in question in the text, say

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“radio”, and choose Production, then Tag Production Element (Command or

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Control plus Alt plus T). Choose a category: Cast, Extras,

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Props, Wardrobe, Makeup, Vehicle, Animal, Stunt, VFX (visual effects), SFX

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(special effects), Music, Location or Other. The word gets a

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subtle mark in the text and from now on counts

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as a production element of this scene. Production, then Show

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Production Tags opens the production overview: scene by scene the

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status, the reference pages (more on that shortly) and all

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production elements with category and origin: “Tagged in text”, “Manual”

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entered here or “Imported” from a scheduling file. Every element

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can be renamed, moved to another category or removed; “Add

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Tag” enters an element that does not occur literally in

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the text, say “rain machine”. Changes here affect only the

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production data, never the screenplay text. Before a screenplay leaves

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the house, “Check Export” (command search, palette or toolbar) is

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worthwhile. Federio Dramatize looks for typical structural errors: duplicate scene

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numbers, dialogue without a character, empty paragraphs, implausible paragraph types.

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Every finding is clickable and leads to the spot. Try

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these tools on a copy of your screenplay. Keep what

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helps your writing, and return to the guide whenever you

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need the details.