Reports
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Selecting the Reports subtab found at the bottom of the editor window allows you to generate a customized and printable view of the script breakdown to help plan and organize your film project. Create lists of your props, dialogue, characters or needed wardrobe for your project by scene and /or department. Driven by the script, Reports can be generated on the fly to slice and dice through the information in your Celtx Project.
Users can choose whether the Report includes breakdown details or any associated image files. Ticking the 'Display Media' box, will display images as standard thumbnails to make the reports easier to read.
New Reports options allow you to isolate any element of a script. View only dialogue (by a single Character, or multiple Characters) or isolate the Action sequences, or look only at Shot directions. You decide what’s in your Report. You can also now use Reports to view all the Script Notes in one place. These reports can be shared or printed off as hard copies.
Only items that are tagged in your script will appear in reports.
Source(s): Reports solutions
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Reports Navigator
Head to the Reports Navigator located on the left hand side of the screen to select a report template, then customize it the way you want by selecting the desired items from the Scene and Department Category filters (located in the panels at the top). To get a complete breakdown report, select ALL scenes and ALL categories, or break it up and select specific scenes and categories by selecting and applying the 'Shift' key.
Pre-loaded reports include:
Scene Breakdown
The Scene Breakdown is a report to allow planning of personnel and other items required to produce a scene.
It prints as at least one page per scene - so can chew up a lot of paper. If your script is not heavily marked up with items (CGI work, camera effects, props, costumes and so on) it can be very sparse.
For a given scene (or all scenes) lists all items for a department (or all departments) that appear in that scene (or all scenes that item appears in). As well as all and single scenes/departments/items, multiple selections can be made - such as scenes 2, 6 and 11.
If the Display Media box is checked, then associated media will be included in the report (photos, etc).
Scene Breakdown with Description
Produces a more verbose report than the Scene Breakdown because the Description field of all the items are also shown.
Dialog
Shows only the dialog for a certain scene (or multiple scenes, including all scenes) for a selected character (or multiple characters, or even all characters).
This can be used to check for consistency of dialog and speech patterns, or providing an actor with all of the dialog for their character(s) - which can be used for rehearsal or memorization, or in animation makes the recording of a single actor's voice a much simpler matter.
Elements
The Elements report is handy when you want to view all instances of a particular formatting element (Action, Character, Dialog, Parenthetical, Transition, Shot ) in a scene or scenes (ie. view all the Action lines in scenes 20-30). Or you can customize the report to include a combination of elements (ie. Character and Dialog). Choosing 'ALL' elements will generate a report that is exactly the same as the script itself.
To create an Elements Report....
- While in Script mode select Script->Generate Report or hit the Reports icon in the Project toolbar.
- Reports displays with the Reports Navigator located on the LH side.
- Select 'Elements' from the Navigator.
- Select the scenes to be included from the Scene filter above.
- NOTE: To choose more than one item, select the first, then hold down the 'SHIFT' key and make your other selections.
- Then choose the Element(s) to be included from the Element filter.
- Once your selections are made, they will appear in the Display Window for viewing.
- To Print your report, select File->Print.
Script with Notes
The 'Script with Notes' report lets you see all the notes that have been added to a script in context (i.e. inline as they were added).
To create a "Script with Notes' Report....
- While in Script mode select Script->Generate Report or hit the Reports icon in the Project Toolbar.
- Reports displays with the Reports Navigator located on the left hand side.
- Select 'Script with Notes' from the Navigator.
- Once you've made your selection, the script will appear with the contents of all notes displayed as they were added, in yellow.
- To Print your report, select File->Print.
