Screenplay
A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film, video game, or television program. These screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated. A play for television is also known as a teleplay.
Format and style
The format is structured in a way that one page usually equates to one minute of screen time. In a "shooting script", each scene is numbered, and technical direction may be given. In a "spec" or a "draft" in various stages of development, the scenes are not numbered, and technical direction is at a minimum. The standard font for a screenplay is 12 point, 10 pitch Courier Typeface.
The major components are action and dialogue. The "action" is written in the present tense. The "dialogue" are the lines the characters speak. Unique to the screenplay (as opposed to a stage play) is the use of slug lines.
A slug line, also called a master scene heading, occurs at the start of every scene, and is usually made up of three parts. Part one states whether the scene is set inside (interior/INT.) outside (exterior/EXT.), or both. Part two states location of the scene. Part three, separated from Part two by a hyphen, refers to the time of the scene. Each slug line begins a new scene. In a shooting script, the slug lines are numbered consecutively. These scene numbers serve as mile-post markers in a script. This allows any part of the script to be referred to by scene number.
Screenplay (TV series)
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC2 between 1986 and 1993.
Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie. Some scenes were shot at Lennoxlove House in East Lothian and others in the Scottish Borders.
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Screenplay (book)
Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting is a non-fiction book and filmmaking guide written by Syd Field. First published in 1979, Screenplay covers the art and craft of screenwriting. Considered a bestseller shortly after its release, to date it has sold millions of copies. It has served as a reference for Judd Apatow, James Cameron, Frank Darabont, Tina Fey and many other professional screenwriters. Now translated into more than a dozen languages, Screenplay is considered the "bible" of the screenwriting craft.
Overview
Screenplay is noted as the first book to identify the three-act screenplay model. At the heart of Field's explanation of how his screenplay model worked was the paradigm.
The Paradigm
In the book, Field outlines the paradigm to which he says most successful screenplays adhere. In Field's view, successful screenplays are made up of three distinct divisions. He calls these setup, confrontation, and resolution, and each of them appear in their own act within a screenplay.
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by Slow V. & Retrospect
Screenplay
by: Slow V. & Retrospect[Intro: Uptight director/label President]
Cut, cut, cut
SR, what are you guys doing
Slow V & Retro where are the bitches and hoes, where's the platinum and the ice?
Jeeze Louise, you guys plan to sell records with that shit
Nobody likes that lyrical stuff, you need to stop that, you know the formula
Talk about some shit that you can't afford, all right
Now lets try this again, big pimping players!!!
Action!
[Verse 1: Slow V & Retrospect]
[Slow V:] I got a chain, that's about as big as your budget
And the cannon I'm busting will have you and your mans ducking
'Round here, dawg we be spraying in buckets
Put your bodyguard to use so you didn't hire him for nothing
[Retrospect:] I got the grill in my mouth, the gold on my neck
Yacht boats, and hot clothes, got O's on my check
And for those want to test, 44's hit you chest
Young 'tro on the set, man I hold my respect
[Slow V:] I'll have a hoe weak for about a whole week
They need helmets and shit
When I'm done, they nose bleed
Clap two at cha mans and then stay low key
Tough guy on the block but he running a 4-3
[Retrospect:] I'm on an emcee hustle, you can call it a mic grind
More money in a day than you will see in a lifetime
Only worried 'bout myself, 'cause I'm rapping for wealth
I got more diamonds on my belt, than an African well
[Slow V:] S-500, interior mink
I got an M3 for the bitches pussy pink
A brand new Lotus, It got to be loaded
Plus the ice on my neck make these bitches loose focus
[Retrospect:] Take a look at my house and you can tell me who's got it
One pinky ring will send your four kids through college
A true profit, spitting is how I make a living
So don't talk about dealing if it ain't about billions, Nigga
[Verse 2: Retrospect & Slow V]
[Retrospect] Yo, Slow V & Retro's like a fresh flow
From a river with lyrical minerals
The best yo
So let go, yes, oh
[Slow V:] Keep you mind blown with this hydro
The realest it gets, even our haters is loving this shit
It's SR nigga so salute, no suites, no troops
Just the truth in our daily commutes
[Retrospect:] We live in the booth, literally
Just give us a stereo beat and
Pay attention as we bury your fleet
It's scary to me, how young niggaz half your age
Can just come up on your stage and take fans away
[Slow V:] We rip them apart, 'till them niggaz needing new parts
Damage more than they flesh and leave more than a scar
Niggaz duck when our albums drop
What we spit up in this booth
Them niggaz going to need more than a mop
[Retrospect:] And more than the cops
To hold flows boiling this hot
We handle shit like Donald
When it comes to the guap
[Slow V:] It don't stop
[Retrospect] When it's representing that hip-hop
We Nike shit and Timberlands
Ya'll niggaz on flip-flops
[Slow V:] The realest to kill it, it's vivid
Just admit it you feel it
Acidic the lyrics the beat
Just admit it the sickest
If this shit were a jail, we'd have the best bars
Slow V, Retrospect, SR, yes, y'all
[Scratch:] What you heard is true
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