Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide -- Table of Contents -- Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's guide -- Credits -- About the Author -- About the Reviewers -- www.PacktPub.com -- Support files, eBooks, discount offers and more -- Why Subscribe? -- Free Access for Packt account holders -- 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.