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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

Time for action - creating the title page


Like the spec screenplay we set up in Chapter 7, Writing Movies with Celtx, and unlike the audio-visual project in Chapter 8, Documentaries and Other Audio-Visual Projects, where we had to specify we wanted a title page, the Theatre project provides a title page by default.

We simply fill out the title page form and a properly formatted title page will be added in front of our script every time a PDF is created.

To get to the form, to fill it out, click on the Title Page button at the bottom of the main Celtx script window, as shown in the following screenshot:

Now, we enter our title, the name of the author (or authors), a copyright notice, and contact information. As I mentioned in the last chapter, the spec screenplay title page is the only title page you do not put a copyright notice on. That's something unique to Hollywood during the submission process. Actually, even without the copyright notice—at least under U.S. law—your work is protected but...