Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide电子书

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

Table of Contents

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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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 action - exporting Scripts in detail

Pop quiz—advanced Celtx

Summary

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

Have a go hero—write a screenplay!

Summary

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

Pop quiz—What Are Audio/Visual projects?

Summary

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

Pop quiz

Summary

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

Have a go hero

Pop quiz

Summary

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

Pop quiz

Summary

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

A. List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources

Screenwriting

Production

Online resources

B. Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps

Celtx on Smartphones!

C. Future Development of Celtx

Celtx 3.0

Thank you!

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