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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

Time for action - call sheets, shooting schedules, and other reports


At the bottom of the Production Schedule Window, we have a Reports tab. Click on it to get reports generated by Celtx using our scheduling information. These reports are Month (monthly schedules ready to be printed), Week (a breakdown of scenes and other events for each week), One Line Schedule (a list of scenes per day with descriptions, day or night, eighths, and cast), Shooting Schedule (shows on what day each scene is to be shot and the cast), Call Sheet (call sheets inform actors, extras, and crews where they need to be and when), and Scene Summary (shows unscheduled, scheduled, and completed scenes).

The following screenshot shows part of a Shooting Schedule. To get the other reports, click on the name of the report in the Reports box, lower left.

To sum it up: we enter things about scheduling in the Production Schedule. We output specific types of reports, based on the information we enter or Celtx generates automatically...

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