Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide
eBook - ePub

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

About this book

In Detail

We've all watched a disappointing movie and said, "I could write it better than that." Perhaps you can! It doesn't matter how good your script might be - if it doesn't look right, producers and agents won't read it. The answer (and it's an easy one) to writing screenplays in the rigid format required is Celtx!

This book on Celtx answers the NEED millions of screenwriters have - how to turn out a pro-looking script without spending hundreds on Final Draft or Movie Magic. It includes screenplay formatting and structuring examples, excerpts from both classic movie scripts and some of the author's own as examples, tips on marketing, and so forth.

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide will make you an expert at storyboarding, audio visual scripts (such as for documentaries), comic books, developing characters, and more. It begins with the basics of getting started with Celtx and then moves on to the important aspects of writing and formatting scripts. With this book in hand, you will develop all the skills of a professional scriptwriter. If you have the creativity it takes to come up with a brilliant script, this book does everything else for you!

This book takes you through a tour of Celtx, what to use it for, and what to do with your excellent results (with a lot of hard-learned tips from the author). In simple terms, this book shows you how to get up to speed writing scripts and the other neat things Celtx does.

This illustrative guide will show you how to turn out a professional-looking script using Celtx.

Approach

This is a beginner's guide - a hand-holding fun ride with step-by-step instructions and illustrative screenshots.

Who this book is for

If you want to write a professional script or screenplay using the open source tool Celtx, this book is for you. You need not have any previous knowledge of Celtx or any other writing software.

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Information

Publisher
Packt Publishing
Year
2011
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781849513821
Topic
Computer Science
Subtopic
Information Technology
Index
Computer Science

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more
Why Subscribe?
Free Access for Packt account holders
Preface
What this book covers
What you need for this book
Who this book is for
As this book goes to press
Conventions
Time for action - heading
What just happened?
Pop quiz—heading
Have a go hero—heading
Reader feedback
Customer support
Errata
Piracy
Questions
1. Obtaining and Installing Celtx
System requirements
PC
Mac
Linux
eeePC
Choosing and downloading the right version of Celtx
Time for action - finding the download choices
Celtx speaks your language
The right operating system
Time for action - downloading Celtx
Installing Celtx
Time for action - installing Celtx on a PC
What just happened?
Time for action - installing Celtx on Mac OS X
What just happened?
Time for action - Linux installation
What just happened?
Time for action - installing on a Netbook
What just happened?
New iPad and iPhone Apps
Testing Celtx
Time for action - starting it up
What just happened?
Time for action - establishing an Internet connection
What just happened?
Adding dictionaries to the spellchecker
Time for action - getting and adding dictionaries
What just happened?
Celtx's six biggies—its types of projects
Film
Audio-Visual
Theatre
Audio Play
Comic Book
Storyboard
Summary
2. All those Wonderful Writing Features
Writing with character and mastering the Master Catalog
Time for action - saving a project
What just happened?
Have a go hero
Tracking people, animals, props, and so on
Time for action - adding manual catalogs
What just happened?
Need an assistant?
Time for action - intuitive formatting
What just happened?
Easy Shortcuts
Page breaks and pagination
Time for action - numbering scenes
What just happened?
Dual dialogue
Scene management
Deleting scenes
Moving scenes
Time for action - using the Scratchpad
What just happened?
Embedded notes
Time for action - adding embedded notes to a script
What just happened?
Title Page generation
Spellchecking
Inline Spellchecking
Write once, use many
Time for action - getting the script out of your computer
What just happened?
Using Index Cards
Revision Mode
Time for action - adding new project types with the Template Engine
Summary
3. Visualizing Productions Ahead of Time
Sketching
Time for action - starting a new sketch
What just happened?
Sketch Tool toolbar
Icons for a professional look
Saving a finished Sketch
Time for action - saving and organizing Sketches
What just happened?
Storyboarding
Time for action - storyboarding
What just happened?
Storyboard controls
Generating scenes automatically
Adding Sketches to a Storyboard
Time for action - moving a Sketch to a Storyboard
What just happened?
Adding image files to a Storyboard
Time for action - adding media files
What just happened?
Summary
4. Tools for Getting Organized
Project Library
Time for action - adding Items
What just happened?
Time for action - adding a folder
What just happened?
Time for action - deleting items
What just happened?
Scheduling, call sheets, and shooting reports
Time for action - scheduling
What just happened?
Time for action - customizing schedule options
What just happened?
Time for action - call sheets, shooting schedules, and other reports
What just happened?
Inter-project document management
Toolbox
Summary
5. Tooling Up for Scriptwriting
The File menu
Time for action - starting a new project
What just happened?
Time for action - opening an existing project
Time for action - opening and saving recent projects
Time for action - saving early and often
Time for action - saving a project under another name
Time for action - creating new project types
Time for action - closing a project
Time for action - closing tabs and windows
Time for action - opening and saving a project stored on Celtx studio
Time for action - add Item, add Folder, delete Item
Time for action - setting up a page
Time for action - previewing and printing a local print job
Time for action - showing the project file
Time for action - exiting
The Edit menu
Time for action - undoing a change
Time for action - redoing (restoring) a change
Time for action - cutting
Time for action - copying
Time for action - pasting
Time for action - selecting it all
Time for action - finding that which was lost
The View menu
The Script menu
Time for action - exporting scripts
Time for action - adapting to another type of script
Time for action - revising a completed script (and you will)
Time for action - updating the Master Catalog
Time for action - using formatting options
Time for action - hiding the Sidebar
The Tools menu
Toolbox
Options
With a little help from our friends
The top buttons
The Project Library window
The Scenes window
The editor toolbar
The bottom buttons
Have a go hero—create a test script and turn it into a PDF
Customizing the Celtx screen
Additional buttons
Pop quiz
Summary
6. Advanced Celtx
Multiple projects in a single project container
Time for action - working with multiple project containers
Importing Scripts in detail
Time for action - importing the Celtx way
Time for action - importing my way
Time for action - accurately importing scripts
Time for act...

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