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Definition: Screenplay |
ScreenplayNoun1. A script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | He wrote 'Terms of Endearment'. Filled with cancer. Big box office. Screenplay nominated for an Oscar. (Zilch; writing credit: Stefan Rogall) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Screenplay Interviews (1999) Screenplay (1984) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
A screenplay or script is a blueprint for producing a motion picture. It can be adapted from a previous work or an original work in and of itself; every year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out Oscarss in both Original Screenplay and Adapted Screenplay categories.
A script for a television program is sometimes called a teleplay.
Someone who writes screenplays is a screenwriter.
Screenplays for feature films are generally about 90-120 pages long, with the general guideline being that each page is about one minute of screentime.
Screenplays can be written either on "spec" or as assignments. Assignments are commissioned by production companies or studios. Spec scripts are written independently by screenwriters in hopes of selling them to producers or studios. Sample scripts are not (usually) intended for production, but to showcase the writing skills of the screenwriter, in hopes of coaxing an agent to represent the screenwriter or a producer to hire the writer. Once a studio has purchased a script, it goes through the process of revisions known as development hell until all stakeholders are satisfied and ready to proceed. A shooting script is a version of a script from which a movie is actually shot, which contains that includes scene numbers, camera angles and certain directors' notes--it is generally fiercely marked up by the script supervisor and other production workers, while the writer's draft is simply the skeleton around which the production is built.
A screenplay is different from a transcript. A transcript is simply a copy of what dialogue finally appeared onscreen, without regard to the original script, the stage directions or action. Transcripts and screenplays can differ significantly.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Screenplay."
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| "Screenplay" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.37% of the time. "Screenplay" is used about 123 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 98.37% | 121 | 29,211 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 1.63% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 123 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "screenplay": screenplay writer. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
screenplay | 1,117 |
write a screenplay | 180 |
writing screenplay | 178 |
movie screenplay | 105 |
free screenplay | 104 |
screenplay format | 59 |
matrix reloaded screenplay | 58 |
screenplay contest | 44 |
screenplay software | 44 |
online screenplay | 37 |
publish screenplay | 31 |
7200 infocus screenplay | 30 |
the matrix screenplay | 30 |
screenplay agent | 29 |
infocus screenplay | 26 |
screenplay wanted | 25 |
script screenplay | 23 |
7200 screenplay | 23 |
sample screenplay | 17 |
screenplay competition | 17 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "screenplay"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | skenar (photoplay, scenario). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | سيناريو (scenario, script, story), النص السينمائي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сценарий за филм. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "影剧本. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | scénář (scenario, script, story). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | scénario (scenario, screen-play, script, scripting, scriptwriting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | drehbuch (scenario, script, scripting, scriptwriting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σενάριο (scenario, script). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תסריט (scenario, script). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | forgatókönyv (continuity, scenario, screen-play, script, shooting script). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sceneggiatura (continuity, scenario, scripting, scriptwriting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 영" 대본. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eenplayscray roteiro (guide, itinerary, script). (various references) сценарий (continuity, photoplay, scenario). (various references) scenario (film script, scenario). (various references) guión (continuity, dash, Guidon, hyphen, leader, movie script, scenario, script, shooting script). (various references) scenario (continuity, film script, scenario), filmmanuskript. (various references) senaryo (book, continuity, playbook, scenario, script). (various references) сценарій (continuity, photoplay, scenario). (various references) kịch bản phim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "screenplay": screenplays. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "screenplay" (pronounced skrē"nplā') |
| 4 | -n p l ā' | downplay. |
| 3 | -p l ā' | foreplay, horseplay, interplay, swordplay. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-p-r-s-y" | |
-1 letter: precleans. | |
-2 letters: cleaners, cleanser, cypselae, percales, preclean, recleans, repanels, replaces. | |
-3 letters: careens, carneys, carpels, caserne, cereals, clasper, cleaner, cleanse, crenels, cypsela, enclasp, enlaces, escaper, lancers, larceny, leaners, leapers, parcels, parleys, parsley, pencels, percale, placers, planers, players, pleaser, plenary, prances, prelacy, presale, pyrenes, recanes, reclasp, reclean, relaces, relapse, repanel, repeals, replace, replans, replays, rescale, respace, scalene, scalper, scenery, sclerae, sealery, spancel, sparely, spelean, spencer, spleeny, syncarp, yelpers. | |
-4 letters: aneles, arpens, asleep, caners, capers, careen, carles, carney, carpel, casern, celery, censer, cereal, cleans, clears, clepes, cranes, crapes, crease, creasy, creels, creeps, creepy, crenel, crepes, crepey, cresyl, cypres, elapse, encase, enlace, escape, escarp, lacers, lancer, lances, lapser, larees, layers, leaner, leaper, learns, leaser, lepers, lycees, nacres, napery, nearly, pacers, panels, parcel, parles, parley, parsec, payees, payers, peaces, pearls, pearly, peasen, pecans, pencel, placer, places, planer, planes, player, please, plyers, prance, preens, pyrans, pyrene, rances, ranees, reales, recane, recaps, relace, relays, repays, repeal, repels, replan, replay, resale, reseal, sanely, scaler, scarey, sclera, scrape, screen, sealer, seance, secern, secpar, senary, seneca, serape, slayer, sleepy, snarly, spacer, spacey, spence, spleen, yearns, yelper. | |
-5 letters: acnes, acres, acyls, alecs, anele, apers, apery, apres, arles, arpen, aryls, aspen, asper, caner, canes, caper, capes, cares, carle, carls, carns, carny, carps, carse, cease, cense, cepes, ceres, clans, claps, clary, clasp, clays, clean, clear, clepe, crane, crape, craps, creel, creep, crepe, crepy, cyans, earls, early, earns, easel, elans, erase, ernes, escar, eyers, eyras, eyres, lacer, laces, lacey, lance, lanes, lapse, laree, lares, laser, layer, leans, leaps, learn, lears, leary, lease, leers, leery, lenes, lense, leper, lyase, lycea, lycee, lyres, nacre, napes, narcs, nares, neaps, nears, neeps, pacer, paces, paler, pales, palsy, panel, panes, pansy, pares, parle, parse, payee, payer, peace, peals, peans, pearl, pears, pease, pecan, peels, peens, peers, peery, peles, penal, pence, penes, perea, perse, place, plane, plans, plays, pleas, plena, plyer, prase, prays, preen, prees, presa, prese, preys, pyran, pyres, races, rales, rance, ranee, rapes, raspy, reals, reaps, recap, reels, relay, renal, repay, repel, reply, resay, salep, saner, saree, sayer, scale, scalp, scaly, scape, scare, scarp, scary, scena, scene, scrap, scree, seely, seepy, sepal, serac, seral, sleep, slyer, slype, snare, snarl, sneap, sneer, space, spacy, spale, spare, spean, spear, speel, speer, splay, spray, spree, sycee, syren, yarns, yeans, yearn, years, yelps. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-p-r-s-y" | |
+1 letter: screenplays. | |
+4 letters: counterplayers, hypermasculine, percutaneously. | |
+5 letters: hypervigilances. | |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .-. . . -. .--. .-.. .- -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110 01110000 01101100 01100001 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r e e n p l a y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0065 0065 006E 0070 006C 0061 0079 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)53698471718082786791 |
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