Learning

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.

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.

Making movies for the first time can be daunting – but it doesn’t have to be. Learn about how Celtx helps first time filmmakers understand the nuances of pre-production.

Breaking down your script is the essential and exhaustive first step in your pre-production process. In this installment of the Learning Series, we’ll run you through what you’ll need to do – and how Celtx makes it easy.

At last, it’s time to take all of your story development and outlining work and turn it into that elusive, seemingly impossible goal: a completed first draft of an original script. In this Learning Series lesson, we’ll show you how.

Planning out your plot will make writing your script a lot easier. In Lesson #4, we’ll guide you through creating a thorough Script Outline – and show you how Celtx can speed up the process dramatically.

Your characters are the most important aspect of your script. For them to be engaging and believable, you’ll have to spend some time with them before going to the page. In Lesson #3 of the Learning Series, we’ll show you how to develop your characters by asking them questions.

What is your story going to say? How is it going to say it? In Lesson #2, you’ll learn how to ground your script by defining your dramatic targets.

What’s in a logline? Well, everything. In this first lesson of the Celtx Learning Series, we’ll show you how to get your scriptwriting process started by distilling your story idea.