How do I create reports on my scenes, locations, characters and other script statistics?

Final Draft’s reports present information from a script in a variety of ways. Though the report formats cannot be changed, the information produced by the reports can be edited, saved and printed. The font used when the reports are printed may be modified.

The user can choose to generate all reports as either script documents or text documents.

To create a report

1. Choose Tools > Reports > [Report Name];
2. A dialogue appears with different options depending on the report chosen;
3. Once options are set, click OK.

Available Reports

• Scene Report contains the scene number (if the scenes have been numbered), intro, location, time of day, page number, page length and other data for each scene.  There is an option to include each scene’s tags;
• Location Report contains each location and the number of times it appears in a scene heading in the script;
• Character Report contains the scene numbers (if any), scene headings, character extensions, parentheticals, complete dialogue and other data for a character. It will also indicate if the character has any monologues of more than 100 words;
• Cast Report contains a list of each character, how many times he or she appears, and other data; 
• Script Report contains the text from specified elements, presented in screenplay format.  Note that choosing all the elements will generate a report that is identical to the actual script;
• ScriptNote Report contains the page number, scene heading, note text and other data of each ScriptNote in the script;
• Statistics Report can include the number of words and paragraphs, the number of each element and their percentage of all elements, character statistics, scene statistics, profanity usage and other data;
• Tags Reports

• By Scene contains a list of all scenes in the script and all tags contained in each scene and their categories;
• By Tag contains a list of all tags by category and the page numbers on which the tagged items appear and (optionally) the scene headings of scenes in which the tagged items appear.

All reports in the Tools > Reports menu are also available in the Navigator tabs:

For more information on Final Draft reports watch the following video: