Speaker 1: So, you've wrote the best bloody script that anybody has ever seen, or maybe it's as good as... My chair won't move. Cool. Well, you wrote that script, you show it to somebody, and they look at it and they go... Let me just... a gag here. The only thing I have to hand is a premium art A4 sheet of paper. Okay. That's right. What the fuck is going on? So, yes, script writing. Script writing is the heart and soul of filmmaking, and it's where everybody starts when you come up with that tiny little idea, whether it's a scene or whether it's anything. Storyboarding, script writing... Script writing, something that I find myself really hard, is one of the most important parts, and it conveys your message and your story across to everybody. We got there. So, welcome back, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Charlie Rollins, and today we're going to be taking a dive in... My arm slipped. That's embarrassing. Today we're going to be taking a look in at script writing, and I'm going to be showing you guys how I write my scripts, and how a lot of people write their scripts. It's stupid, isn't it? That's right. I'm going to be showing you the best way that I could really kind of give you advice with where to write your scripts and how to write scripts, and kind of, you know, the formity of it. Like I said before. So the worst thing you can do is have your amazing script then be torn to pieces, or somebody not understand which character's which, who's who, and the biggest part of that can be structure. So first thing, structure. Writing down a script is the most important part of it. That's the most important part of the process, is getting your idea down on paper. But then when conveying your story and your message to other people, what you need to do is you need to then have structure to it, so somebody can easily read, understand characters, who's what, when, where, how. Myself, the biggest thing that I've always struggled with is script writing, and just making sure the dialogue's right and all that. But today, we're not going to go over that, right? I don't know why I'm talking about that, because we're not going over that. I'm going to show you just quickly, probably one of the best apps that I use for my script writing. This isn't sponsored. This isn't advertised. I wish it was. Sponsor me. That's right. I'm going to get straight to the point now. I'm going to get straight to it. Google, Celtx, website, Celtx.com. Create an account, free. Don't be tripped up, though, because they do that kind of, well, you need to pay for this. You don't need to pay, right? It's free. You get three free projects for free. Let's dive. Once you've created your account, you will be taken to here, which is your project settings. You won't actually see these, because you'll need to create a project. If I just delete one of these, rip project. Here we are. We click new project. TV and film, for whatever. They've got all sorts of stuff. Game and VR, never clicked that before. Not a game and VR channel, am I? Project name, YouTube video. There we go. YouTube video. One episode. Do you have an existing script? Maybe if you did start this off in Notepad, that might work. Never tried it before, but you can. Here we go. We now have the opening part of our Celtx kind of thing. You have screenplay, index cards, and storyboard. Yes, that's right. You could take my old video, print those off or whatever, and put it into a storyboard. Here we go. Don't worry about all these other stuff too much, because these are just extras. I would pay for them if I was you, if you have the opportunity and you're storyboarding, script writing, something that you really want to get into. Definitely worth having something like this. There are loads of other apps, but this is the one which I actually just started using back in college, and I never stirred away from it. I know there's other industry professionals will tell you to use one thing or another thing, but Celtx is probably one of the greatest ones that I find, and it's the easiest to use. It's so easy to send up and get even somebody else to look at it. If I'm sending it, say, to my partner, my business partner, whoever, and I want them to make notes, it's the one that they find is easiest to navigate around. Here we are. We have our blank page, and here we are. We're ready to start writing. I'm not going to go too much about the formalities. I'm just going to show you the features that it works. If I'm saying my scene, interior, day, house, right? God, I can't type. Interior, day, house. We wrote that. That's our scene heading and all that malarkey. If I click enter on that, then we go straight to action, so it automatically takes us to action. If you go into the left-hand corner, you'll be able to change what you want to write, basically. You've got your act, which is your act 10, your scene heading, your action. Action is anything that a character is doing, moving, camera, anything like that, you can jam into that section. Character, that's a character that's talking, so I could write Charlie, and then press space, and it will automatically take me to dialogue. Hi. That's what Charlie says. Hi. You have parenthic. What the flip is that? Parenthetical. The bloody hell does that help? Okay, back to the video. Parenthetical, you would use that, so say if your character whispers or is smirking, I would usually add that in there. If I want the direction for the character to be very specific, so say if Charlie says hi while smirking, if that's important, I don't know. Might be wrong, but that's how I've always done it. So saying on that mark, everybody kind of does it their own way. I've read some scripts where the directors put a lot more information in the action than they put camera moves and stuff like that, and then I've also seen directors who have not, and scriptwriters who have not put that, and they've put that in their own line, whatever. Bambling now, and I'm bambling. So now the reason why I use this program so well is because if you, once again, go to your switches, your tabs, you can see that you have CTRL-0, CTRL-1, CTRL-2, CTRL-3, and it's so fast. Say if I want to write Charlie hits man on the head, and then I want to press Enter, and I want to switch to CTRL-3, and just use that on my keyboard, CTRL-3, and I can switch straight to the character, press Enter, it will go straight to dialogue. Gotcha. Awful. This is an awful thought. Another great thing is that if I'm writing multiple characters, so I've got Charlie and Dave, ow, and I need to write Charlie's character again, as soon as I start writing Charlie, it automatically fills it in for me. And then once you've done that, it saves onto your account. You just need to log back in. You have a limited amount of pages, I'm pretty sure, to do it. It keeps all that data and all that, and you can render it out as a PDF. It's probably the best program that I would recommend for scriptwriting. So this was just a small video that I wanted to make just explaining what I use, and a program that I find that a lot of people don't use when writing their scripts or even ideas down and stuff like that. It's just, you know, once you get into the process of it, your cast and your crew are going to find it much easier to navigate your scripts and make it more enjoyable to read when you start going with the format. And the reason why this is so good is it sticks so closely to an industry standard by forcing, you know, positions and stuff like that. You never have to worry about that ever again. So I hope you enjoyed today's video. If you've enjoyed today's video, make sure to smack that like button because I have no idea what that does. Hit subscribe. I know what that does. It makes the number go up. And that's about, that's basically it. That's basically it. Thank you.