Screenwriting Flashcards
Film Criticism
Evaluating individual films
Film Theory
Conceptual frames for understanding film’s relation to reality, the other arts, individual reviewers, and society at large.
Film Analysis
How specific features of a film relate to one another in the structure of the film or in a body of films.
Character
The subject(s) of a story.
Character Arc
The sequential development of the character across the length of the story.
Plot
The basic premise of the story; what the story is about.
Plot Points
An incident or event that redirects the story.
Setting
The location(s) of the action.
Storyline
A narrowly defined sequence of events involving one character; there may be several storylines in a screenplay.
Story Arc
The sequential progression of the story across time.
Backstory
The history of a character or situation that explains their current action.
Pathos
A quality in speech, writing, or events that evoke pity or sadness.
Irony
Perceived notion of an incongruity, or a gap, between an understanding of reality, or expectation of reality, and what actually happens.
Action
What happens in the story.
Screenplay
A story told with pictures.
