Celtx: Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide

by Ralph Roberts

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. Overview What you will learn from this book Approach This is a beginner's guide – a hand-holding fun ride with step-by-step instructions and illustrative screenshots Who this book is written for If you want to write a professional script or screenplay using the open source tool Celtx, this book is for you. You need not have any previous knowledge of Celtx or any other writing software. We've all watched a disappointing movie and said, "I could write it better than that." Perhaps you can! It doesn't matter how good your script might be – if it doesn't look right, producers and agents won't read it. The answer (and it's an easy one) to writing screenplays in the rigid format required is Celtx! This book on Celtx answers the NEED millions of screenwriters have – how to turn out a pro-looking script without spending hundreds on Final Draft or Movie Magic. It includes screenplay formatting and structuring examples, excerpts from both classic movie scripts and some of the author's own as examples, tips on marketing, and so forth. Open Source Screenwriting Beginner's Guide will make you an expert at storyboarding, audio visual scripts (such as for documentaries), comic books, developing characters, and more. It begins with the basics of getting started with Celtx and then moves on to the important aspects of writing and formatting scripts. With this book in hand, you will develop all the skills of a professional scriptwriter. If you have the creativity it takes to come up with a brilliant script, this book does everything else for you!. This book takes you through a tour of Celtx, what to use it for, and what to do with your excellent results (with a lot of hard-learned tips from the author). In simple terms, this book shows you how to get up to speed writing scripts and the other neat things Celtx does. This illustrative guide will show you how to turn out a professional-looking script using Celtx.

359 pages, Paperback

First published March 12, 2011

Reviews

[Lex Gilmore]

PACKT Publishing just sent this book on screenwriting to me for a comprehensive review to use in their media. They are a Pub House in the U.K. with fabulous releases and reviews. I'm honored to be going through the book currently while using it to finish up my own screenplay for Randall Wallace (Secretariat, Pearl Harbor, Braveheart, We Were Soldiers), titled The Secret City. I've already had Celtx downloaded on my laptop for some time, but it's nice to receive a book to review that punches through the obvious tools in it, revealing entirely new strategies that one would not have found on their own.
If the timeline permits, I will rate this particular Guide in August, 2012.