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Script vs. Screenplay — What's the Difference?

Script vs. Screenplay — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Script and Screenplay

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Script

Handwriting.

Screenplay

A screenplay, or script, is a written work by screenwriters for a film, television program, or video game. These screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing.

Script

A style of writing with cursive characters.

Screenplay

The script for a movie, including descriptions of scenes and some camera directions.

Script

A particular system of writing
Cuneiform script.
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Screenplay

A script for a movie or a television show.

Script

A style of type that imitates handwriting.

Screenplay

To write a screenplay.

Script

The matter set in this type.

Screenplay

A script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets

Script

The text of a play, broadcast, or movie.

Script

A copy of a text used by a director or performer.

Script

(Law) The original of a legal instrument, as opposed to a copy.

Script

(Computers) A simple program in a language that the computer must convert to machine language each time the program is run.

Script

To prepare (a text) for filming or broadcasting.

Script

To arrange, direct, or control (an event or a person) as if supplying a script
"the brilliant, charming, judicial moderate scripted by his White House fans" (Ellen Goodman).

Script

(Computers) To write (code) for a program.

Script

A writing; a written document.

Script

Written characters; style of writing.

Script

(typography) Type made in imitation of handwriting.

Script

An original instrument or document.

Script

(countable) The written document containing the dialogue and action for a drama; the text of a stage play, movie, or other performance. Especially, the final form used for the performance itself.

Script

(computing) A file containing a list of user commands, allowing them to be invoked once to execute in sequence.

Script

(psychology) A behavioral script; sequence of actions in a given situation.

Script

(linguistics) A system of writing adapted to a particular language or set of languages.

Script

(informal) prescription for drugs or medicine

Script

(transitive) To make or write a script.

Script

(transitive) To devise, concoct, or contrive.

Script

A writing; a written document.

Script

Type made in imitation of handwriting.

Script

An original instrument or document.

Script

Written characters; style of writing.

Script

A written version of a play or other dramatic composition; used in preparing for a performance

Script

Something written by hand;
She recognized his handwriting
His hand was illegible

Script

A particular orthography or writing system

Script

Write a script for;
The playwright scripted the movie

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