Storytelling Basics and Scriptwriting with Celtx

Enhance your storytelling and scriptwriting skills with this course, ideal for beginners and experienced writers alike, featuring Celtx guidance and expert insights.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about taking your storytelling game up a notch! You'll learn to craft exciting scripts for film and animation while getting familiar with the Celtx program. Perfect for anyone—from beginners to pros—looking to improve their writing skills.

Key Points

  • Develop storytelling skills for film and animation.
  • Learn to write engaging scripts using Celtx.
  • Accessible for newbies and seasoned writers alike.
  • Incorporates examples from film and literature.
  • Organize characters and plot points effectively.

Learning Outcomes

  • Write engaging and enjoyable stories.
  • Use Celtx efficiently for scriptwriting.
  • Organize characters and plot points with the Master Catalog.
  • Understand storytelling techniques from iconic films and authors.
  • Gain confidence in your writing abilities!

About This Course

Develop your storytelling skills and ideas and format them into an engaging script for film/animated production.

If you're having trouble coming up with ideas then this is the course for you! If writing a script is challenging for you... well, this course is also for you!

Aspiring Animation Director Christopher Wade finally brings his unique brand of educational humor to Udemy featuring the scriptwriting program Celtx! These 20-something minute lectures will teach you how to effectively write an engaging story and how to transfer storytelling skills into a script format for film, TV, or animated production!

Whether you're a budding film student, a hobbyist looking to write their first film or an experienced screenwriting who simply wants to brush up on some knowledge, Christopher Wade will take you through the inner workings of storytelling, citing examples from film and iconic actors, citing examples from books and famous authors and guiding you through Celtx's most useful features.

  • At course's end, you will learn how to effectively write an enjoyable story

  • You will have learned how to operate Celtx in an efficient and productive capacity.

  • Use the Master Catalog to organize your characters, work through plot points and discover new details about your story

Instructor

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Christopher Wade

Loose-cannon Animator with a vendetta against bad stories and advocator of great films and animations. Also, Im a Creative Director at Spark-Flow Studios and Full-Time Illustrator/Designer at CACI Productions Group.I could also be a Power Ranger.

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4.9 course rating
4K ratings
ui-avatar of Jose R Tapia
Jose R. T.
5.0
2 years ago

great learning technique on the use of Celtx

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ui-avatar of Alexx TheCurator
Alexx T.
4.5
3 years ago

Amazing to start, Chris is hilarious. Instead stand up you must do Master Yoda!

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ui-avatar of Luc Rivet
Luc R.
4.5
3 years ago

I subscribed to Celtx and wasn't sure how to use it, this course has been valuable in teaching me to use Celtx for my scriptwring.

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ui-avatar of Kedar Mistry
Kedar M.
3.0
4 years ago

Expected to cover more about Celtx

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ui-avatar of Leonardo dos Santos Pinheiro
Leonardo D. S. P.
3.0
5 years ago

It is not very easy finding a course about Celtx and this one was promising.
Showing the same content twice was a bad idea. He could have shown other features of the software or fulfilling the promises made about revisiting incomplete parts.
The course is good, but not well structured.

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ui-avatar of Tony O'Sullivan
Tony O.
5.0
5 years ago

Just perfect for my needs. Brilliant and funny.

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ui-avatar of Michael Gratis Jr.
Michael G. J.
3.0
6 years ago

At first I was a little skeptical that all of this information could be conveyed in the short amount of time in the course, but the intensity and speed at delivery caught me by surprise and was a little refreshing. Several times I had to pause and read things, and even looked up the book they mention and ordered a copy for myself. The audio is a little patchy, and you can tell where it was edited (sometimes to a fault) but since that is not the instructors field of study, I don't blame them. I would probably have similar issues if I created a course. But fun, enjoyable, with some fast pacing and rather crude (and in the end, satisfying) humor. Unfortunately I thought there would be more content. It appears to be missing some things (though I am not sure if this was intentional)

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ui-avatar of Scott Schoenfeld
Scott S.
5.0
6 years ago

It lets me know that I need to practice drawing storyboards in order more visually on the right side on my brain with my mild autistic and artistic abilities. I need to practice my reading comprehension, English, and writing skills. I need to learn time management skills to try to put forth a little effort to show productivity when drawing storyboards in a timely manner. I would to try new things with storyboarding, scriptwriting, and storytelling in Adobe PhotoShop and Illustrator. I would like to try to make 48 storyboard cels per second for 60 seconds times 5 minutes equals 14,400 storyboards cels. I would like learn how to use the state of the art technology in Adobe PhotoShop and Illustrator to do this storyboard goals. I would like to make it a goal to transfer all the 14,400 storyboard cels from Adobe PhotoShop and Illustrator to the latest version of Celtx to make it easier to try to create a storytelling scriptwriting for any storyboarding project.

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ui-avatar of Sara-Beth Jeffrey
Sara-beth J.
3.5
7 years ago

Looks very interesting but I have not tried anything yet.

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ui-avatar of Babu R
Babu R.
3.0
7 years ago

I was looking for an overview kind of tutorial. There are some YouTube videos explaining the script writing. But, I thought I'd get something more here.
Explaining the process of script writing and how it fits into a film production workflow, would have been nice.
Providing an overview of different sections and when do use what would be beneficial.
Examples of different characters in a story were provided in a detailed manner. Showing how these characters fit into a real video/film (even if it's short) would be nice. How the script/characters transformed into an actual video/film would give a very good perspective and vision of the future writers.
But, this is definitely a good basic course in the learning path.

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