SOCIALBILITTY • GLOSSARY DEPARTMENT
Screenwriting, story structure, characters, dialogue, genres, treatments, scripts, themes, narrative concepts, and literary development for screen entertainment.
In storytelling, a Hero is a central character who confronts major obstacles, makes consequential choices, and often drives the story’s primary dramatic journey. A hero does not have to be morally perfect; the term describes a narrative function as much as personal virtue.
View Definition →A Story is the sequence of events, characters, goals, conflicts, choices, and consequences that form a narrative. In film and television, story is the underlying dramatic content that a screenplay, performance, direction, cinematography, editing, sound, and other crafts translate into the finished work.
View Definition →Any writing that is for a movie or film, structured in the context of a Screenplay.
View Definition →A person in charge of creating a Script or Screenplay, which is the blue print of any film or movie. A Screenwriter is responsible for writing the characters lines, dialogue and camera angles as well as a story arc, in a structured format that is unlike a novel.
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