HOW-TO-VIDEO Celtx VS Word: Script

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Black screen How-To-Video: Using Celtx No audio present

and its benefits fades into the frame in
bold white font.
Title fades away and shot then fades to
screen recording of word processing
software open, with someone working on a
script. This cuts between other screen
recordings of the Celtx website with an
example script open aswell.

Light background music starts playing with medium

volume. Voice over begins moments later. Hello
and welcome to my tutorial video on how to use
Celtx and its benefits. We will be discussing how it
compares to other word processing software, in
terms of creating professional film scripts.

Screen fades to black, title What is Celtx? Both voiceover and music audio cuts out.
fades onto the screen.
Crossfade to screen recording of web
browser and log on to Celtx .

Music and voiceover enters.

Celtx is a free to use, online word processing
software that is set up to speed the process of
creating scripts for film. It does so by using
automatic formatting tools for the text and
layout.

Screen fades to black, then title Features

of Celtx fades onto centre frame.

Voiceover and music fade out

A screen recording shows the user

selecting the Edit Title Page function.

Music and audio enters again. There are many

features of Celtx that make it a useful tool in the
script-writers pallet. Firstly, by selecting the edit
title page button, Celtx automatically creates a
correctly formatted and good looking title page for
your script, by the user simply filling in 6 or less
boxes of info. This can be seen in A4 format by
clicking the print/pdf button.

Fade to a screen recording of a user

selecting text and applying the dialogue,
action, scene heading and character
options to different sets of text.

The main feature of Celtx is that it has automatic

text formatting for particular parts of the script.
Firstly, you can highlight the scene heading, and it
will automatically change the text to all caps and
to the correct font. As well as this,action can be
selected to return any text to left aligned and
standard font. Finally, the most useful part is the
character and dialogue selections. Where it will
place the characters name central and the
dialogue centred below with no extra spacing and
a limited width. Celtx will also save character
names and automatically change the format from
character and dialogue by pressing enter; which is
very useful as it saves time and makes the script
writing process more fluid and efficient.

The shot cuts back to the word processing

software, with a user applying the same
details and options to their text in the script.

To do this in normal word processing software, it

is much more time constraining and requires you to
constantly change the alignment of text. But this
can also cause spacing issues that need to be
manually adjusted, therefore taking up even more
time

HOW-TO-VIDEO Celtx VS Word: Script

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Fade to another screen recording of the

Celtx software. The parenthetical feature
is being used on some text.

Another useful feature of Celtx, is that a

parenthetical (or dialogue direction) can also be
automatically formatted into closed brackets and
spaced directly above the dialogue. This can be
done by simply highlighting the text and clicking
the parenthtical button on the auto format
toolbar. Also any scene transitions i.e. fade in,
dissolve in etc. can be formatted to the top right
corner of the page by highlighting and selecting
the transition format.

Fade to black. Title A Negative of Celtx

enters. A clip of word processing software
Pages is shown, with the user highlighting
text in different colours.

Voiceover and music fades, then re-enters as next

clip is shown. Although Celtx is very good for fast
script writing, it does not have as in depth
customisation of text format as other word
processing softwares . So highlighting your props,
characters, scene settings etc can only be done
after print, whereas on programs like pages, it can
be done within the document.