screenplay
pronunciation
How to pronounce screenplay in British English:
UK [ˈskri:npleɪ]
How to pronounce screenplay in American English:
US [ˈskrinˌple]
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- Noun:
- a script for a film including dialogue and descriptions of characters and sets
Word Origin
- screenplay (n.)
- 1916, from screen (n.) in the cinematic sense + play (n.).
Example
- 1. How to write a thriller screenplay
- 2. Want to make a complicated political drama , based on an original screenplay , with expensive actors in exotic locations ?
- 3. It was the sheer resilience of her moral courage that filled me with awe as I wrote my screenplay for the lady .
- 4. The novel originated as a screenplay for paramount written by a young classics professor .
- 5. Dramatic structure of the screenplay may be defined by the linear arrangement of related incidents , episodes , or events leading a dramatic resolution .