DREW NOAH: So now I'm going to talk about formatting your screenplay and writing your script. I'm not going to go into all the details and specifics on how you're suppose to format a screenplay. That's not what this series is about. So I'm just going to show you how you do it in Celtx real simply. And if you don't already know how to format a screenplay, you're going to have to pursue that information later. But in the conclusion to this series, I will show you a great free option online on how to get some information on how to write screenplays. So you can skip to there if you're looking for that information as well. But--so I'm going to show you how to format your screenplay in Celtx which follows the rules of screenplay formatting. Let me show you first, we got a location here and then this--see, that you can see when I click on it's changing up here so it tells me what it is. So this is our Scene Heading, and right here we have our Action and then Character and Dialog. And these are your basic things. You're back to an Action, back to a Character, Dialog, back to Action, and then pretty much goes back and forth between Dialog and Actions until you get to a new scene right here. But let me show you how that works. So I'm going to start, here is--I'm going to zoom in the text a little bit just maybe you could see it a little better, starting on our Scene Heading. So start with EXT, it means exterior. And when you format, this is supposed to be in all text and Celtx does this for us, which is really nice. They're getting a little bit bigger. So when I'm done typing my Scene Heading, I hit Return and you can see it switched straight to Action because most likely that's what supposed to happen next. You're supposed to have an Action. Just like that. And whenever I'm done writing my Action, I'll hit Return again and it's ready for a new Action, but if I hit tab, it's going to go to a Character. And if I hit Enter, it's going to go to Scene Heading. And you can see the shortcuts down here in the very corner. When I hit Tab, you go to Character and you got a Scene Heading, so it's a good idea to keep an eye down here on what's going to happen when you hit Tab or Enter. But it's also--once you start writing, you'll get the real hang of it. Just after an Action, typically you're going to go to Character, and so I go to Character. And this is the character and then the next line is going to be dialog. So if I hit Tab again, I'm going to Action, but if I hit Enter to go to the next line it goes straight to Dialog. Hey. So, there you go. And now that I'm in Dialog, if I hit Tab, I'll go to a Parenthetical, and if I hit Enter, I'll go to the other character. So just like other screenwriting programs, it's set up for Tab and Return shortcuts that are most likely what's going to happen. So I hit Return, new character; I hit Return again, back to Dialog. If I hit Return and then Return again, I go back to Action; and then Return again, I go back to Scene Heading. So you can see how Return is just sending you back. If I keep hitting it, I can go even further back. But if I Tab, I kinda move forward in this line-up. So you can see if I'm on Dialog, if I start hitting Return, I go backwards; but this time, I hit it up. If I'm on Dialog and I hit Tab, I'm kinda going forward in this list, and you can see how that works. So you kinda get that idea as you're writing and you just want to make sure you're keeping an eye--real fast, let me show you--character. Well, it's going away when I move the mouse, but down here you'll see what's going to happen whenever you actually type something in. And just like I said, Return is basically sending you up this list and Tab is sending you down this list. So that's the formatting your screenplay in Celtx. And of course if you want to do it manually, you can always set something by going up here, if I'm like--I'm right here I want to skip straight to the Scene Heading. I could do it manually or I could just hit return a couple of times until I see it. So that's formatting your screenplay in Celtx.
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