Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1: Obtaining and Installing Celtx
Chapter 2: All those Wonderful Writing Features
Chapter 3: Visualizing Productions Ahead of Time
Chapter 4: Tools for Getting Organized
Chapter 5: Tooling Up for Scriptwriting
Chapter 6: Advanced Celtx
Chapter 7: Writing Movies with 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
Chapter 12: Marketing Your Scripts
Appendix A: List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
Appendix B: Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
Appendix C: Future Development of Celtx
Appendix D: Pop Quiz Answers
Index

• Preface

• Chapter 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
• Time for action – installing Celtx on Mac OS X
• Time for action – Linux installation
• Time for action – installing on a Netbook
• New iPad and iPhone Apps
• Testing Celtx
• Time for action – starting it up
• Time for action – establishing an Internet connection
• Adding dictionaries to the spellchecker
• Time for action – getting and adding dictionaries
• Celtx's six biggies—its types of projects
• Film
• Audio-Visual
• Theatre
• Audio Play
• Comic Book
• Storyboard
• Summary

• Chapter 2: All those Wonderful Writing Features
• Writing with character and mastering the Master Catalog
• Time for action – saving a project
• Tracking people, animals, props, and so on
• Time for action – adding manual catalogs
• Need an assistant?
• Time for action – intuitive formatting
• Easy Shortcuts
• Page breaks and pagination
• Time for action – numbering scenes
• Dual dialogue
• Scene management
• Deleting scenes
• Moving scenes
• Time for action – using the Scratchpad
• Embedded notes
• Time for action – adding embedded notes to a script
• Title Page generation
• Spellchecking
• Inline Spellchecking
• 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

• Chapter 3: Visualizing Productions Ahead of Time
• Sketching
• Time for action – starting a new sketch
• Sketch Tool toolbar
• Icons for a professional look
• Saving a finished Sketch
• Time for action – saving and organizing Sketches
• Storyboarding
• Time for action – storyboarding
• Storyboard controls
• Generating scenes automatically
• Adding Sketches to a Storyboard
• Time for action – moving a Sketch to a Storyboard
• Adding image files to a Storyboard
• Time for action – adding media files
• Summary

• Chapter 4: 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

• Chapter 5: 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
• 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
• Customizing the Celtx screen
• Additional buttons
• Summary

• Chapter 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 action – exporting Scripts in detail
• Summary

• Chapter 7: Writing Movies with Celtx
• Preparing to write a Screenplay
• Creating a project container
• Time for action – setting up the project
• Loglines
• Synopses
• Treatments
• Outlines
• Time for action – creating a title page
• Beginning a script—the first two words
• Scenes
• Time for action – formatting scene heading
• Action
• Character
• Dialog
• Parenthetical
• Shot
• Transition
• Text
• Printing it out
• Summary

• Chapter 8: 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
• Title page
• Time for action – adding a title page
• Celtx power
• Writing an AV project in Celtx
• Scene heading
• Shots
• Character
• Dialog
• Parenthetical
• Summary

• Chapter 9: Raising the Curtain on Plays
• Act 1, Scene 1—writing a play
• What are plays?
• Parts of a stage play script
• Time for action – starting a theatre project
• Time for action – creating the title page
• Outlining a play
• The Outline in Celtx
• Play elements
• Act
• Scene heading
• Stage direction
• Character
• Dialog
• Parenthetical
• Transition
• Printing our play
• Tracking the cast
• Summary

• Chapter 10: Audio Plays, Podcasts, and Other Great Sounds
• Listen to this
• Why sound productions?
• Radio plays
• Time for action – setting up our audio play project
• Audio play elements
• Time for action – numbering elements and creating a PDF
• BBC formatting
• Time for action – using BBC formatting
• Summary

• Chapter 11: WAP! POW! BANG! Writing Comic Books with a Punch
• Graphic storytelling
• What are comics?
• 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
• Page
• Panel
• Caption
• Character
• Balloon type
• Balloon
• Navigating, deleting, and reordering pages
• Summary

• Chapter 12: Marketing Your Scripts
• Appearances are everything!
• What is a screenplay?
• What Celtx does for us?
• Where Celtx needs help
• Sending out a good-looking script!
• Loglines and queries
• A spiffy logline
• An interesting and informative query
• Ways to get noticed
• Film festivals

• Places to get leads
• Places to get leads for money

• Getting support from your fellow writers
• Time for action – marketing using Celtx files
• Be persistently persistent
• Summary
• Conclusion

• Appendix A: List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources
• Screenwriting
• Production
• Online resources

• Appendix B: Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps
• Celtx on Smartphones!

• Appendix C: Future Development of Celtx
• Celtx 3.0
• Thank you!

• Appendix D: 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

• Index