Screenplay

"Stone me" <stranger.RemoveThis@corrall.msx> wrote in message
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> Screenplay. You have a scriptwriter, and someone knocks up something
> called
> a "storyboard" sometimes, but the screenplay is a little bit of a puzzle
> to me.
>
> Does the person who writes the screenplay author the script, or is the
> script
> first written, then the screenplay shaped around it?

The script and the screenplay are exactly the same thing. So exactly, in
fact, that it never occurred to me that anyone would think they were not. A
screenwriter spends x-number of months writing his screenplay, then he turns
his script in to the producers. The producers read the screenplay, make
copies of the script, and give them to the production staff. Or you can
switch terms all through those last two sentences and it will still make
perfect sense. On the set, there's usually a preference for the word
"script" when talking about it -- "What's my next line? Anybody got a
script?" -- but that's probably only because it's a shorter word. There's
no difference in meaning.

Jim Beaver
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:24:30 GMT, "Jim Beaver"
<jumblejim DeleteThis @prodigy.spam> wrote:

>The script and the screenplay are exactly the same thing. So exactly, in
>fact, that it never occurred to me that anyone would think they were not. A
>screenwriter spends x-number of months writing his screenplay, then he turns
>his script in to the producers. The producers read the screenplay, make
>copies of the script, and give them to the production staff.

One is for motion pictures, the other is for movies. And visa versa.
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"Jim Beaver" <jumblejim.DeleteThis@prodigy.spam> wrote in message
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>
> "Stone me" <stranger.DeleteThis@corrall.msx> wrote in message
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>> Screenplay. You have a scriptwriter, and someone knocks up something
>> called
>> a "storyboard" sometimes, but the screenplay is a little bit of a puzzle
>> to me.
>>
>> Does the person who writes the screenplay author the script, or is the
>> script
>> first written, then the screenplay shaped around it?
>
> The script and the screenplay are exactly the same thing. So exactly, in
> fact, that it never occurred to me that anyone would think they were not.
> A screenwriter spends x-number of months writing his screenplay, then he
> turns his script in to the producers. The producers read the screenplay,
> make copies of the script, and give them to the production staff. Or you
> can switch terms all through those last two sentences and it will still
> make perfect sense. On the set, there's usually a preference for the word
> "script" when talking about it -- "What's my next line? Anybody got a
> script?" -- but that's probably only because it's a shorter word. There's
> no difference in meaning.
>
> Jim Beaver
Thanks. The Wiki article didn't make this clear enough for me.
Do the contracts, detailing the requirements stick to set format
or do they tend to vary from sketchy to very detailed?

I know very little about the process of film production, and I
guess that goes for most.

Stone me.
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"Stone me" <stranger.TakeThisOut@corrall.msx> wrote in message
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> Thanks. The Wiki article didn't make this clear enough for me.
> Do the contracts, detailing the requirements stick to set format
> or do they tend to vary from sketchy to very detailed?

The contracts? Do you mean the employment contracts between the producers
and the writer? If so, then, yes, some are more detailed than others. But
all adhere to the Writers Guild boilerplate known as the Minimum Basic
Agreement. This is the basic contract, as negotiated between the Guild and
the producers' organization. Details of individual contracts are then
worked out, granting additional rights and duties, but in a Guild-sanctioned
agreement, no terms may be less favorable to the writer than those in the
Minimum Basic Agreement.

Jim Beaver
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Jim Beaver wrote:

> On the set, there's usually a preference for the word
> "script" when talking about it -- "What's my next line? Anybody got a
> script?" --

Yeah but the major players have their own dealers.


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