Posted on April 26, 2011 in General Screenwriting, Screenplay Format | No Comments
Break out of the box of traditional screenwriting assumptions! In this excerpt from Writing the TV Drama Series: Second Edition, Pamela Douglas gives you some new rules for writing television that have changed significantly in just the past couple of years.
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Posted on March 28, 2011 in Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 1 Comment
This is a live demo of the Celtx media pre-production software. Presented in New York in Feb. 2011 by filmmaker/educator Mike Jones.
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Posted on November 23, 2010 in Contests, General Screenwriting, Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 3 Comments
We would like to thank all the members from all around the world that entered the contest. We hope everyone had as much fun creating their adaption and storyboards as we did judging them. The adaptations ranged from faithful to re-imagined departures. The storyboards where even more diverse. Methods varied from hand drawn, found images, South Park style shapes and the built in Celtx Sketch Tool.
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Posted on October 15, 2010 in Featured, Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 9 Comments
Once the script is written – how do you effective communicate the visual direction of your film? The answer is storyboards – essentially a scene-by-scene visual guide to the screenplay of the film.
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Posted on October 13, 2010 in Featured, Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | No Comments
In the world of open source filmmaking programs, nothing comes close to competing with Celtx. It is the essential all-in-one media pre-production software package that combines script writing, scheduling, storyboarding and much more all in to one software package.
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Posted on October 7, 2010 in Contests, General Screenwriting, Screenplay Format, Storyboarding | 16 Comments
FilmmakerIQ.com has teamed up with Celtx, the creator of our favorite open-source filmmaking tool to give you the opportunity to enter the Dark Gothic World of Edgar Allan Poe. Here’s your chance to really show off your screenwriting and pre-visualizing skills by adapting and storyboarding Poe’s poem “The Raven.”
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Posted on September 24, 2010 in General Screenwriting, Screenplay Format, Story | 3 Comments
My scene count is making my screenplay too long, but I can’t see cutting any of the scenes I’ve written. What should I do?
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Posted on September 3, 2010 in Editing, Screenplay Format | 2 Comments
See how to turn spoken dialogue into searchable text either by synchronizing content with your Adobe Story script, or by using reference scripts that are optimized for your content. Accelerate editing by marking in and out points in the speech analysis text to speed production time.
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Posted on August 26, 2010 in Screenplay Format | No Comments
Celtx Script is the only mobile screenwriting app that syncs directly with Celtx desktop software, making it easy to write a screenplay from any place at any time.
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Posted on August 13, 2010 in Screenplay Format | 1 Comment
In this video, Karl Soule demonstrates how Adobe Story, a collaborative script development tool designed for creative professionals, can help you create your next script or screenplay.
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Posted on June 28, 2010 in General Screenwriting, Screenplay Format | 4 Comments
It’s easy to feel intimidated by the thought of writing your first screenplay. The rules! The formatting! The binding! Don’t let the seemingly endless parade of screenwriting elements scare you away from writing your first script. Since a familiarity with the basics of the craft is half the battle, The Writers Store has created this [...]
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Posted on November 10, 2009 in Screenplay Format | No Comments
Celtx v2.5 is here! Many people still think of Celtx as just screenwriting software, but it does so much more. You can use Celtx and for the entire production process – not only write scripts, but create storyboard scenes and sequences, sketch setups, develop characters, breakdown & tag elements, schedule productions, and prepare [...]
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Posted on November 2, 2009 in Screenplay Format, Selling Your Script | 1 Comment
Advanced format and style tips that can turn a good script into a great read
by Christopher Riley
Before a film or television script can fulfill its destiny in front of cameras and on screens around the world, it must first succeed as a piece of literature, a document that captivates the reader before it delights the [...]
Posted on September 21, 2009 in Screenplay Format, Story | 3 Comments
by Christina Hamlett
When I was a young aspiring writer, I had a strong aversion to the use of “said” in a story. My justification was that it was blah. It was uninspired. It was pedestrian. Why use “said,” I rationalized, when there were so many other words in the English language that were way more [...]
Posted on June 24, 2009 in Featured, Screenplay Format | 4 Comments
When it comes to formatting, screenplays follow strict rules. Proper format is the first thing agents and other prospective readers look for in a script. In this hyper competitive world, you can’t afford a bad first impressions.
Beyond the basics of layout and margins, there are some gray areas of formatting that every writer will eventually [...]
