The Celtx Industry Series is excited to announce that we’ll be hosting another Ask Me Anything session this September! Since the first Ask Me Anything was such a great success, and because there were so many questions left unanswered, the Celtx Team wanted to provide a second opportunity for you to ask Hollywood writer, director, and producer Brian Levant.

How you choose to run your production is up to you. Some organizations embrace new technologies like scriptwriting software to provide their crew with tools like script editors for film and TV. Others may delay their investment in a modern scriptwriting or pre-production technology and maintain the status quo – if it isn’t broken, why fix it? Well, one good reason is to ensure that your crew’s productivity doesn’t end up on the cutting room floor! 

Bolstered by the advancement of digital distribution technologies, video content, including film and TV, has entered a new renaissance, reaching audiences like never before. According to the latest data from 360 Research Reports the video production industry is projected to grow to $43.1 million USD by 2025.
To keep pace with the industry’s burgeoning growth, freelance script writers to in-house production teams turn to professional scriptwriter and pre-production software like Celtx. Today, we highlight a few of the nifty Celtx features that you might not know about to help your professional production team keep pace with industry growth.

Join the Celtx Team on July 28, 2021 at 8:30 AM PT / 11:30 AM ET / 3:30 PM GMT as we discuss in-house video production with industry professionals Ben Dinsmore of Lockheed Martin Space, and Tommy Bond of Life.Church’s Creative Media Group.

After a year of exceptional challenges, there are few folks who haven’t seen their day-to-day routines and work lives change drastically. Despite this massive shift in how we conduct our lives, people did what they do best: adapt. With the right tools and technology, like a streamlined and easy-to-use video production management software – remote work, collaboration, and documentation can help any in-house team revamp their processes to improve creativity.

The successful completion of a film or video project hinges on two things: a keen eye for detail and constant collaboration. Producing content represents the confluence of many different areas of expertise as well as the management of many different practical assets. Read this article to learn more about the video production process, and how you can help your team organize.

Narrative design is the act of building the story, the world, the environment, the characters, and all aspects of a game or other form of narrative to create an immersive and interactive experience. To learn more, please register to attend today!

The world of film and video production is all about teamwork. The talented people— both on-screen and behind the scenes— that make up your cast and crew will bring your project to life. No matter what size your shoot is, keeping an organized list of everyone involved is important, but can be challenging. With the new Cast & Crew feature in your Celtx Studio, we set out to create a simple, all-in-one solution for keeping track of each and every person in your production.

Lucentum Productions, a production company based in Alicante, Spain, uses Celtx Pro to write their scripts and organize their shoots. They have more than 20 years of experience producing short-form and long-form audiovisual projects in multiple languages, both nationally and internationally, and Celtx Pro has become an integral part of their workflow.

What is documentary filmmaking? Put simply, it’s the act of scripting and filming true stories. To learn more, watch the recording of our webinar with special guest panelists Gillian Fritzsche and Ikhwan Rivai for a discussion and Q&A session.

Many of our Windows desktop users have asked for a dedicated screenplay writing app, and we’re pleased to announce the release of Celtx Screenplay; a standalone progressive web app available for free in the Microsoft Store that gives you the ability to access, edit, and create new Celtx film and TV scripts.

Our latest expansion of the Game & VR project’s professional featureset is now available to help you better manage large projects. Read this to learn more.

Creating a music video might seem like it’s all fun and games, but like any animated short form video it requires a lot of collaborative effort and talent – and it all starts in the script. Learn more about how the Voyager Team used the Celtx Multi-Column AV format to develop the script and visuals for their music video.

Celtx’s Multi-Column AV Editor was built as a flexible and adaptable solution that supports the pre-production workflow required to keep short-format video projects on-schedule and on-budget.

On Wednesday, March 24th at 9:00 AM PST / 12:00 PM PST / 5:00 PM GMT the Celtx team hosted a discussion with two co-hosts, a seasoned industry pro and a newcomer to the industry, about the changes, the challenges, and how they helped their teams adapt to filming during COVID-19.

Lifechurch Creative Media is the production company behind Life.Church, a global community of worshipers that spans 11 states across the USA, in 35 locations nationwide. They boast millions of annual downloads of inspirational videos and content, tens of thousands of weekly views via YouTube, and weekly screenings in their own church network.

The Celtx Industry Series is proud to present the first Ask Me Anything session since the series’ inception. Join us as we host an Ask Me Anything with Hollywood director, writer, and producer, Brian Levant.

We’re kicking off the year with a slew of improvements to the Game & VR Editor that make creating your interactive narratives faster, more manageable, and easier on the eye. Read this to learn more!

The Science Leadership Academy (SLA) is one of the 8 schools in the School District of Philadelphia that use the Celtx Studio to teach 1,080 class hours of scriptwriting and filmmaking to their students, as a part of their three-year CTE Digital Video and Cinematography program.

How have crews and productions adapted to deal with the pandemic? Read this to find out, and learn about how there may be a silver lining in the ‘new normal’.

Join us on Wednesday, December 2nd, at 12:30pm EST (9:30am PST; 5:30pm GMT) for a conversation with award-winning writer, director and producer Gillian Fritzsche on a Beginner’s Guide to Story Structure. Gillian has worked with such industry giants at Jane Lynch and has directed films for the NY Shakespeare Exchange, and has experience with shorts, feature-length films, documentary films, and much more.

As a way to share all of their groundbreaking innovations, Lockheed Martin Space has its own internal video production team of 30 creatives that helps tell their stories – in keeping with the trend of major companies adopting an internal agency model for their communications. They boast over 65 million views on their YouTube channel, with over 325,000 subscribers and 928 videos in total. They use Celtx to help them create this content.

The 31st annual St. John’s International Women’s Film Festival has launched! They’re pleased to make their programmed films available to audiences Canada-wide for the first time ever.

Kids In The Spotlight is an organization made up of amazing mentors and partners with the shared mission to engage youth in foster care, empower them tell their stories, and help them to be heard.

On Wednesday, September 23rd, 2020, join film and media instructors around the world as we discuss creating a production toolkit for film production instructors during our free Celtx Industry Series webinar. Celtx has been a mainstay in the toolkits of instructors from middle school to post-grad, as they work with students on developing their filmmaking skills. But what other tools are instructors relying on, and how has the shift to online learning changed the tools we use to educate and encourage students?

Sony Pictures Television’s Gemstone Studios has launched the Rising Storytellers Search and announced the opportunity to receive a development deal with Sony Pictures Television!

FUNDAMENTALS is a new video learning series created by Celtx. It serves as a step-by-step guide to developing a screenplay from scratch.

Join Shannon Hawes, Chris Agoston, and the Celtx Team as we discuss the 1st and 2nd Assistant Director roles, and how these roles fit in the film pre-production and production process.