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Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

You're reading from   Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide Celtx won't write your script for you, but it will ensure it has the format and features demanded by the film industry. Learn to use Celtx along with insider secrets of screenwriting and script-marketing into the bargain.

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2011
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ISBN-13 9781849513821
Length 376 pages
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Table of Contents (22) Chapters Close

Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. Obtaining and Installing Celtx FREE CHAPTER 2. All those Wonderful Writing Features 3. Visualizing Productions Ahead of Time 4. Tools for Getting Organized 5. Tooling Up for Scriptwriting 6. Advanced Celtx 7. Writing Movies with Celtx 8. Documentaries and Other Audio-Visual Projects 9. Raising the Curtain on Plays 10. Audio Plays, Podcasts, and Other Great Sounds 11. WAP! POW! BANG! Writing Comic Books with a Punch 12. Marketing Your Scripts List of Recommended Books on Screenwriting and Productions and Online Resources Celtx's New Web Look and Smartphone Apps Future Development of Celtx Pop quiz—Answers

Project Library


As we saw in Chapter 1, Obtaining and Installing Celtx that Celtx comes with seven predefined project templates, which are as follows:

  • Film

  • Audio-Visual

  • Theatre

  • Audio Play

  • Storyboard

  • Comic Book

  • Text (hiding down in the scrolling menu on the Splash Page, as shown in the following screenshot)

We also saw, in that same chapter, how new project templates are created and added. We click on whichever type of project we're working on, for example, Film to start a feature movie screenplay.

When we open any project—new or saved—we find the Project Library on the left side (see the following screenshot, which shows the included sample project that comes with Celtx, the Wonderful Wizard of Oz):

Looking in the Project Library window (to the left side of the preceding screenshot), we begin to get an idea of all the things that can be stored with our scripts (and the high-dollar commercial script writing programs do not offer this kind of power). In fact, it's possible to have literally...

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