SOCIALBILITTY • GLOSSARY DEPARTMENT
Screenwriting, story structure, characters, dialogue, genres, treatments, scripts, themes, narrative concepts, and literary development for screen entertainment.
Poetry is a literary form that uses concentrated language, rhythm, imagery, sound, structure, and other expressive techniques to communicate ideas, emotion, or narrative. Poetry does not require rhyme and can include written, spoken-word, performance, and hybrid forms.
View Definition →Prose is ordinary written language organized into sentences and paragraphs rather than verse. In film and television development, prose is commonly used in treatments, outlines, synopses, pitch documents, and other materials that describe story outside screenplay formatting.
View Definition →A Treatment is a prose document that presents the concept, story, characters, tone, structure, and major dramatic beats of a proposed film, television project, or other screen work. Treatments vary in length and detail and may be used for development, pitching, financing, packaging, or as an intermediate writing step before or alongside a screenplay.
View Definition →A Scriptment is a hybrid development document that combines elements of a screenplay and a treatment. It is generally written in prose but may contain scene-level detail, dialogue, shot descriptions, or other screenplay-like material, allowing a writer or filmmaker to develop a story in greater detail without producing a full screenplay.
View Definition →A Genre is a category used to group films, television programs, books, music, or other creative works by shared conventions, subject matter, tone, structure, or audience expectations. Common screen genres include drama, comedy, action, horror, thriller, science fiction, fantasy, documentary, western, and romance.
View Definition →Comedy is a dramatic genre built around humor, comic situations, timing, character behavior, satire, irony, or absurdity. Comedy can appear in many forms, including romantic comedy, dark comedy, satire, sketch comedy, sitcoms, parody, and hybrid genres.
View Definition →Drama is a narrative genre centered on character, conflict, relationships, choices, and emotional stakes. In film and television, drama may range from intimate character stories to historical, legal, medical, crime, political, family, or other serious narrative forms.
View Definition →A compassionate and caring fictional character, usually the protagonist in a comic book, or a movie based off of a comic book with amazing and super powers such as Green Lantern John Stewart.
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