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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Future Development of Celtx

Writing an AV project in Celtx


An audio-visual script is written using the five script elements in the Audio-Visual project script, which are Scene Heading, Shot, Character, Dialog, and Parenthetical.

A script in progress—my Celtx Loves Indies—is shown in the following screenshot:

A few pages ago, we discussed how wide a variety of audio-visual productions Celtx's audio-visual project script edit covers, and all done with those five script elements found in the drop-down menu at the top of Celtx's main script window. You can see it in the preceding screenshot; it is showing Dialog at the moment.

Once finished and sent out on the Internet for an almost instant conversion to PDF, a completed page looks like the following:

All nice and neat, and to get it that way, we must be careful to tag each item we write with the correct script element. I emphasized that in the previous chapter, I'm doing it again now, and I'll do it two or three more times before this book ends. It is critical.

Do that and...