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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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Every successful crowdfunding campaign needs with a great video. Read this to learn more about the best practices for making your pitch to the world.
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Pull on your jhodpurs and tilt that beret. We’re going back in time to the dawn of mainstream cinema to bring you some valuable screenwriting tips that you can use right now.
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In this essay from The Talkhouse, Screenwriter Eric Heisserer shares what he learned while adapting a mind-bending sci-fi novella into one of the year’s biggest genre coups.
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There’s a somewhat complicated process to making changes to your script after you’ve gone into production. In this post, we explain it from top to bottom – and how Celtx makes it easier.
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If you’ve been on set, you know that sides are everywhere. Ever wonder how those ubiquitous little booklets get made? Watch this to find out… and discover a better solution.
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With Halloween approaching, we dig into the spooktacular world of horror movies to examine how they scare us – plus why this makes them so profitable.