SOCIALBILITTY • GLOSSARY DEPARTMENT
Screenwriting, story structure, characters, dialogue, genres, treatments, scripts, themes, narrative concepts, and literary development for screen entertainment.
A Western is a film or television genre associated with the American West and frontier mythology, often involving themes of law, settlement, conflict, isolation, land, identity, or survival. Westerns can be historical, revisionist, contemporary, comedic, or blended with other genres.
View Definition →Sides are selected pages or excerpts from a script provided to performers for auditions, callbacks, rehearsals, or a day’s work. Sides usually contain the specific scenes or dialogue needed for the task rather than the entire screenplay or teleplay.
View Definition →Is referred to the three act structure of a screenplay, play, novel, short stories, video games, and film. The three acts consists of; Act One: Setup, Act Two: Confrontation First Half | Act Two: Second Half and Act Three: Resolution. To conduct oneself or itself in any given type of way. A type of deed,…
View Definition →In storytelling, a Theme is the central idea, question, value, or underlying meaning explored through the characters, conflicts, choices, and consequences of a work. A theme is not simply the plot; it is what the story examines or suggests beneath the surface events.
View Definition →In a screenplay, film, TV production or play the main events of a scene.
View Definition →In screenwriting and performance, a Beat is a small unit of dramatic action, thought, reaction, or change within a scene. The term may also describe a brief pause in dialogue or performance, but it is broader than silence alone: a beat often marks a shift in intention, emotion, information, or power.
View Definition →A person or writer of a book, novel, screenplay or manuscript.
View Definition →The practice of revising or creating another version for a movie or television program from a literary work such as a book, novel, graphic novel, comic book or play.
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