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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide
Mar, 2011 | 376 pages
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Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
Credits
About the Author
About the Author
About the Reviewers
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Preface
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1
Obtaining and Installing Celtx
Obtaining and Installing Celtx
System requirements
Choosing and downloading the right version of Celtx
Time for action - finding the download choices
Time for action - downloading Celtx
Installing Celtx
Time for action - installing Celtx on a PC
Time for action - installing Celtx on Mac OS X
Time for action - Linux installation
Time for action - installing on a Netbook
Testing Celtx
Time for action - starting it up
Time for action - establishing an Internet connection
Time for action - getting and adding dictionaries
Celtx's six biggies—its types of projects
Summary
2
All those Wonderful Writing Features
All those Wonderful Writing Features
Writing with character and mastering the Master Catalog
Time for action - saving a project
Time for action - adding manual catalogs
Need an assistant?
Time for action - intuitive formatting
Time for action - numbering scenes
Time for action - using the Scratchpad
Time for action - adding embedded notes to a script
Write once, use many
Time for action - getting the script out of your computer
Using Index Cards
Revision Mode
Time for action - adding new project types with the Template Engine
Summary
3
Visualizing Productions Ahead of Time
Visualizing Productions Ahead of Time
Sketching
Time for action - starting a new sketch
Time for action - saving and organizing Sketches
Storyboarding
Time for action - storyboarding
Time for action - moving a Sketch to a Storyboard
Time for action - adding media files
Summary
4
Tools for Getting Organized
Tools for Getting Organized
Project Library
Time for action - adding Items
Time for action - adding a folder
Time for action - deleting items
Scheduling, call sheets, and shooting reports
Time for action - scheduling
Time for action - customizing schedule options
Time for action - call sheets, shooting schedules, and other reports
Inter-project document management
Toolbox
Summary
5
Tooling Up for Scriptwriting
Tooling Up for Scriptwriting
The File menu
Time for action - starting a new project
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
With a little help from our friends
The top buttons
The Project Library window
The Scenes window
The editor toolbar
The bottom buttons
Customizing the Celtx screen
Additional buttons
Summary
6
Advanced Celtx
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 action - exporting Scripts in detail
Summary
7
Writing Movies with Celtx
Writing Movies with Celtx
Preparing to write a Screenplay
Time for action - setting up the project
Time for action - creating a title page
Scenes
Time for action - formatting scene heading
Action
Character
Dialog
Parenthetical
Shot
Transition
Text
Printing it out
Summary
8
Documentaries and Other Audio-Visual Projects
Documentaries and Other Audio-Visual Projects
What is an audio-visual production?
Starting an AV project in Celtx
Time for action - beginning our new AV project
Time for action - setting up the container
Time for action - adding a title page
Writing an AV project in Celtx
Summary
9
Raising the Curtain on Plays
Raising the Curtain on Plays
Act 1, Scene 1—writing a play
Time for action - starting a theatre project
Time for action - creating the title page
Play elements
Printing our play
Tracking the cast
Summary
10
Audio Plays, Podcasts, and Other Great Sounds
Audio Plays, Podcasts, and Other Great Sounds
Listen to this
Time for action - setting up our audio play project
Audio play elements
Time for action - numbering elements and creating a PDF
Time for action - using BBC formatting
Summary
11
WAP! POW! BANG! Writing Comic Books with a Punch
WAP! POW! BANG! Writing Comic Books with a Punch
Graphic storytelling
Time for action - opening the sample comic book script
Time for action - creating a Celtx comic book container
Time for action - building the title page
Comic book elements
Navigating, deleting, and reordering pages
Summary
12
Marketing Your Scripts
Marketing Your Scripts
Appearances are everything!
Loglines and queries
Ways to get noticed
Places to get leads
Getting support from your fellow writers
Time for action - marketing using Celtx files
Be persistently persistent
Summary
Conclusion
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Screenwriting
Production
Online resources
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Celtx on Smartphones!
Future Development of Celtx
Future Development of Celtx
Celtx 3.0
Thank you!
Pop quiz—Answers
Pop quiz—Answers
Chapter 5: Tooling Up for Scriptwriting
Chapter 6: Advanced Celtx
Chapter 8: Documentaries and Other Audio-Visual Projects
Chapter 9: Raising the Curtain on Plays
Chapter 10: Audio Plays, Podcasts, and Other Great Sounds
Chapter 11: WAP! POW! BANG! Writing Comic Books with a Punch

Choosing and downloading the right version of Celtx

The current version (at the time of writing) of Celtx is 2.7, which was released in early 2010. You'll want to check occasionally to make sure the Celtx on your computer is up to date.

Let's go get Celtx!

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