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8mm

Abbreviation

Accent

Action, see Direction

Ad lib

Aerial shot

Ampersand

Angle

Angle on

Articles

a, an, the

magazine and newspaper

Asterisk

b.g.

Back to present

Back to scene

Background

Backup

Banner

Barbara’s Place

Based on

Beat

Binocular POV

Black and white

Boarded

Bold

Breaking a page

Caller ID

Camera

Camera direction

Camera move

Capital letters

Capitalization

Cast page

Character name

Character name over dialogue

Close angle

Close on

Close shot

Closeup

Colloquial speech

Colon

Colored paper

Column

Comma

Computer

Contact information

Continued

Continuing

Continuous action

Copyright notice

Courier (font)

Covers

Credit

Cut

Cut to black

Dash

Date

Daydream

Description, see also Direction

Dialogue

Direct address

Direction

Dissolve

Dot leader

Double spacing

Double-sided script printing

Down angle

Draft

Draft and date

Dream sequence

Dusk

Ellipsis

Email

Emphasis

End titles

Entrance

Epilogue

Episode title

Episodic television

Establishing shot

Exclamation point

Exit

Ext./Int.

Exterior

Extra

Extreme closeup

Extreme wide angle

f.g.

Fade

Fade in

Fade out

Fade to black

Fade to white

Feature film

File-naming

First draft

First letter of direction

Final Draft

First page

Fixed-pitch font

Flashback

Font

Foreground

Foreign language

Freeze frame

Full draft

General to specific

Grammar

Group names over dialogue

Guest cast

Half-hour

Handheld shot

Hard cut

Headline

High angle

Home video

Hour-long television

Hyphen

Initials

Insert shot

Instant message

Intercut

Interior

Into frame

Introducing a speaking character

Italics

Last page

Later

Location

Locked scene numbers

Low angle

Lyrics

Made-for-television movie

Magazine

Magic hour

Main titles

Margins

Master scene format

Master shot heading

Match cut

Medium shot

Memory flash

Memory hit

Microscopic POV

Montage

MOS

Movement of the camera

Moving shot

Multi-camera film format

Multiple writers

Musical

Mystery POV

Narrator

New act

New angle

Newspaper

Newsreel footage

Night

Nonspeaking character

Numbered names over dialogue

O.S.

Offscreen

Offscreen sound

Omission

Out of frame

Out of view

Pace

Page count

Page length

Page number

Pan

Paper

Paragraph

Parentheses

Parenthetical character direction

PM

Poem

Point of view

POV shot

Pre-lap

Preposition

Preproduction

Present tense

Printer

Production board

Production draft

Prologue

Proofreading

Prop

Proper name

Proportionally spaced font

Punctuation

Quadruple dialogue

Question mark

Quick cut

Quotation marks

Rack focus

Radio

Rain

Rainbow script

Re:

Repaginated

Reverse angle

Revised pages

Revision mark

Revision slug

Revisions

Ripple dissolve

Run of revised pages

Sample script pages

Sample scripts

Scene letter

Scene number

Score

Script typing software

Series of shots

Series title

Sets page

SFX

Ship

Shot heading

Sign

Silence

Simultaneous dialogue

Single-camera film format

Sleet

Slow motion

Sniper scope

Snow

Software

Song

Song lyrics

Sotto voce

Sound cue

Sound effect

Sounds

Spacecraft

Spacing between shots

Speaking character

Spec script

Specialized sequences

Spell check

Spelling

Split screen

Subject of shot

Subjective camera

Subtitles

Sunrise

Sunset

Super

Superimpose

Superimposition

Tag

Teaser

Telephone conversation

Television series

Template, single-camera margins

Tempo

Terms of endearment

Text message

The end

Three shot

Tilt

Time cut

Time of day

Title page

Tracking shot

Transition

Triple spacing

True story

TV

Two shot

Type of shot

Typewriter

Underline, see also Underscoring

Underscoring

Underwater shot

Up angle

Upside-down POV

V.O.

Voice

Voice over

Warner Bros.

We see

WGA

What he sees

White space

Wide angle

Wide shot

Wipe

Writer-director

Writers Guild of America

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