Craft

In this guest post, professional script reader Alex Bloom offers an insider’s perspective on what people will be looking for when they take your screenplay under consideration. Want to know how to make sure your spec survives the first cut? Read on to find out.

On this week’s podcast, we are joined by Cinematographer, Jeremy Mackie. We discuss his career path and the value of having a filmmaking community during pre-production.

Breaking down your script doesn’t have to be intimidating. In Celtx, our intuitive point-and-click interface makes it fast, engaging, and dare we say fun. In this crash course, we’ll guide you through some of the finer points of making sure everything on your page makes it to the screen.

A picture might be worth a thousand words, but uninteresting dialogue can sink your story. Watch this latest video from Project Volare to learn how to make your words count.

Celtx & Project Volare are partnering to bring aspiring creatives a fast, free, six-week crash course in filmmaking – along with valuable prizes from industry leading sponsors (including us!). Want to get involved? Read this to learn more!

Hollywood veteran Brian Levant is using Celtx to introduce first-time screenwriters to the high-intensity world of the television writer’s room. In this interview, we discuss how technology has both changed and failed to change the pre-production workflow, as well what you need to concentrate on when trying to write scripts for the first time.

Happy Halloween from Celtx! To help ring in the spookiest time of the year, we’ve pulled some insights from five of our favorite horror screenplays. Want to write something scary? Start with seeing it done right.

School is back in session. In today’s lesson, we’ll cover the five fundamental steps you need to take to bring a film or video into production, and how Celtx will help you along the way. Be sure to act soon – we’re offering discounts on all annual subscription plans until the end of September.

How do you elevate a brand film into the realm of pop culture? PR Week’s Chris Daniels gives us the best practices from the minds behind BMW’s action-short phenomenon.

What are the most popular character names? Where do most scenes take place? We’ve harnessed the power of Script Insights to get the answer. As it turns out, storytellers have a lot in common.