You want the words of your characters to be authentic. When writing Dialogue, it’s important to keep the traits and personality of your character top of mind. Once you hit Enter after typing in a Character name, Celtx will intuitively assume that the next thing you will write will be Dialogue, moving your cursor to the correct position and format in the middle of the page beneath your Character name. *The option to automatically tag these in your Breakdown is Off by default, but can be included by turning these options on within the Breakdown Settings. Whichever you choose, make sure that you’re consistent in which one you use if they appear more than once. They are identified by typing (O.S), (OS.) or (O.S.), or (O.C), (OC.) or (O.C.) after the name of the Character. Off Camera was used primarily in the past, but has been seemingly replaced with the Off Scene more recently. Off Screen and Off Camera are often used interchangeably and indicate that a character who cannot be seen is speaking, but is still in the same physical location. They are identified by typing (V.O), (VO.) or (V.O.) after the name of the Character. This can be a narrator who remains unseen throughout the script, or a character that makes an appearance in another scene. Examples of this are Voice Over, Off Screen, or Off Camera characters.Ī Voice Over Character is someone that doesn’t appear in your script at the time they’re speaking, but is often someone the audience is familiar with.
Sometimes you’ll have Characters that don’t appear on screen within your scene. Voice Over, Off Screen & Off Camera Characters *This option to automatically tag your characters can be disabled under the Breakdown Settings. When the “Character” element is selected from the Element dropdown, your character names will be correctly situated in the middle of the page and will appear as in all caps - this is industry standard.Īs well, once you enter a character name, smart suggestions will make it available to you to autofill when you begin typing that name again, and all of your identified Characters will be automatically tagged in your Breakdown and be added to your Catalog. Celtx’s Auto Formatter will take care of most of the heavy lifting when it comes to correctly identifying and formatting your characters.
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