Screenplay

A written script for a film that specifies scenes, settings, actions, and dialogue. It guides the film’s creative development and production.

Scene heading: A screenplay line that identifies a scene’s location and whether it occurs during day or night. Scene headings establish where and when each screenplay scene takes place.
Screenwriting: The craft of writing scripts for film, television, or other screen media. Screenwriting is the creative practice that produces screenplays.
Silent film: A motion picture presented without synchronized recorded dialogue, commonly accompanied by live music. Early film scripts often emphasized action and intertitles rather than spoken dialogue.
Adaptation: The transformation of a work or story into a different artistic form or medium. An adapted screenplay reshapes existing material for cinematic storytelling.
Treatment: A prose summary of a proposed film’s story, usually shorter and less detailed than a screenplay. A treatment describes the story without the screenplay’s scene-by-scene production detail.
Slug line: A concise heading used in screenplays to mark a scene or describe an element. In screenplay formatting, a slug line commonly serves as the scene heading.
Spec script: A screenplay written without a prior commission, usually to sell or demonstrate a writer’s work. Unlike a commissioned draft, a spec script is written before a buyer requests it.
Intertitle: A title card inserted into a silent film to convey dialogue or information. Intertitles supplied words that later sound-era screenplays could assign to actors.
Teleplay: A script written for production as a television program. Teleplays use screenwriting conventions but are structured for television formats.
Film script: A written document used to guide the making of a film, including dialogue and production directions. The broader phrase can include screenplay drafts and other scripts used in filmmaking.

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