Time for action - intuitive formatting
Intuitive formatting basically is what Celtx does to keep our fingers moving. The less we have to think about formatting, the easier to keep the old creative juices flowing and the story building.
Open a new film project (all examples also work in the other types of script projects) and look at the example script that I've started below. Follow along by typing it, and we'll see some examples of Celtx doing intuitive formatting for us.
We met the drop-down menu box just over the big script window in Chapter 1. We learned there how important it is in five of Celtx's "six biggies", defining the elements that go into Film, Audio-Visual, Theatre, Audio-Play, and Comic Book projects (Story Board is the sixth type).
Elements such as Scene Heading, Character, and Dialog are the very basics of a script. Get their format right and our script looks (and darn well is) professional. Celtx works hard at doing formatting for us unobtrusively.
Okay, let's analyze what...
