The Commission may recommend to the General Assembly: (a) to take no action, the report having already been published (b) to take note of or adopt the report by resolution (c) to recommend the draft to Members with a view to the conclusion of a convention or (d) to convoke a conference to conclude a convention (article 23, paragraph 1). Upon receiving comments from Governments on its draft articles, the Commission prepares a final draft and explanatory report, which it submits with its recommendations to the General Assembly (article 22 of its Statute). Final Draft has always been way overpriced.Under article 20 of its Statute, the Commission is required to prepare drafts in the form of articles and to submit them to the General Assembly together with a commentary containing an adequate presentation of precedents and other relevant data, including treaties, judicial decisions and doctrine as well as conclusions defining the extent of agreement on each point in the practice of States and in doctrine, and divergencies and disagreements which exist, as well as arguments invoked in favour of one or another solution. Highland 2 can do all of this as well, mind you, if money is tight.

Get it to first draft stage in Highland 2 and then, if money is no object, bring into Final Draft when you’re finally looking to impress someone and at the submit stage.

I’ve found a screenplay can develop more naturally using something like Highland 2, where you can stretch your narrative and put in bits of dialogue to see where it goes without artificially worrying about structure right away. IMHO, this is one of the reasons many movies lack originality these days- too much adherence to strict three act structure.

Not to mention that if you structure your screenplay so strictly according to inciting incidents during the first draft, etc., this could be a recipe for a lackluster and unrealistic narrative.

But for every other step up to that- development, outlining, flexibility- not to mention ease of use- Highland 2 is far superior.įinal Draft seems to have never been able to make it out of their rather clunky legacy interface items and I’ve always found it cumbersome to use. I started on Final Draft and it’s great for a polish and for rewrites during production- the very last steps in working with a screenplay. I dispute the very premise of this article.

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