A screenplay or script is a written work by screenwriters for a film or television program. These screenplays can be original works or adaptations from existing pieces of writing. In them, the movement, actions, expression, and dialogues of the characters are also narrated. A play for television is known as a teleplay.
The format is structured in a way that one page usually equates to one minute of screen time. In a "shooting script", each scene is numbered, and technical direction may be given. In a "spec" or a "draft" in various stages of development, the scenes are not numbered, and technical direction is at a minimum. The standard font for a screenplay is 12 point, 10 pitch Courier.
The major components are action and dialogue. The "action" is written in the present tense. The "dialogue" are the lines the characters speak. Unique to the screenplay (as opposed to a stage play) is the use of slug lines.
The format consists of three aspects:
The style consists of a grammar that is specific to screenplays. This grammar also consists of two aspects:
Richard Walter is an American forensic psychologist for the Michigan prison system, a crime scene analyst and one of the creators of modern criminal profiling.
Walter developed a number of psychological classifications for violent crime, and is a co-founder of the Vidocq Society, an exclusive organization of forensic professionals dedicated to solving cold cases. As a psychologist for Michigan's prison system, he has interviewed more than 22,000 convicted felons.
He worked with Robert D. Keppel, then the chief investigator for the Attorney General's Office in the State of Washington, and together they wrote Profiling Killers: A Revised Classification Model for Understanding Sexual Murder. Keppel created the Homicide Information Tracking Unit (HITS) database, of which Walter was a prolific contributor. Walter was the first to develop a matrix as a tool of investigation using pre-crime, crime and post-crime behaviours to help develop suspects.
The Vidocq Society and its three co-founders, including Walter, were the subject of a 2010 book by Michael Capuzzo. The book is titled The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World's Most Perplexing Cold Cases. Walter is also a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine/Clinical Forensic Medicine, A Fellow of the Australasian College of Biomedical Sciences and a 22-year veteran prison psychologist for the state of Michigan.
Steven Kaplan (born October 5, 1953, New York, United States) is a professor of African studies and comparative religion at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is one of the leading modern scholars on the origins of the Beta Israel, or Ethiopian Jews. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at Hebrew University from 2004-2006.
Lawrence Jay Duplass (born March 7, 1973) is an American film director. He is best known for his debut film The Puffy Chair and most recent films Baghead and Jeff, Who Lives at Home. His brother, Mark Duplass, has worked with him on both films.
Duplass was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was raised in a Catholic family, and attended Jesuit High School.
Duplass attributes much of his and his brother's love for film to his appreciation for Raising Arizona. In an interview with Robert K. Elder for The Film That Changed My Life, Duplass speculates on what might have happened had he not seen the film in his youth.
I probably wouldn’t be making movies—seriously. It held over for so long. It really was the root of everything that Mark and I always hold ourselves to in making movies. That is to say that Raising Arizona is the most inspired movie that I have ever seen.
Sofia Carmina Coppola ( /ˈkoʊpələ/ KOH-pə-lə; born May 14, 1971) is an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actress. In 2003, she received the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for Lost in Translation, and became the third woman (and first American woman) to be nominated for an Academy Award for Directing. In 2010, with Somewhere, she became the first American woman (and fourth American filmmaker) to win the Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Coppola was born in New York City, New York, the youngest child and only daughter of set decorator/artist Eleanor Coppola (née Neil) and director Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather and Apocalypse Now), granddaughter of the composer Carmine Coppola, sister of Roman Coppola and Gian-Carlo Coppola, niece of her father's siblings August Coppola and Talia Shire, and a cousin of Nicolas Cage, Jason Schwartzman and Robert Carmine. When she was just 14 years old, her brother Gian-Carlo was killed in a boating accident. She attended high school at St. Helena High School and graduated class of 1990. She later went to Mills College and the California Institute of the Arts, and interned with Chanel when she was fifteen years old. After dropping out, Coppola started a clothing line called Milkfed that is now sold exclusively in Japan.
[Intro: Uptight director/label President]
Cut, cut, cut
SR, what are you guys doing
Slow V & Retro where are the bitches and hoes, where's the platinum and the ice?
Jeeze Louise, you guys plan to sell records with that shit
Nobody likes that lyrical stuff, you need to stop that, you know the formula
Talk about some shit that you can't afford, all right
Now lets try this again, big pimping players!!!
Action!
[Verse 1: Slow V & Retrospect]
[Slow V:] I got a chain, that's about as big as your budget
And the cannon I'm busting will have you and your mans ducking
'Round here, dawg we be spraying in buckets
Put your bodyguard to use so you didn't hire him for nothing
[Retrospect:] I got the grill in my mouth, the gold on my neck
Yacht boats, and hot clothes, got O's on my check
And for those want to test, 44's hit you chest
Young 'tro on the set, man I hold my respect
[Slow V:] I'll have a hoe weak for about a whole week
They need helmets and shit
When I'm done, they nose bleed
Clap two at cha mans and then stay low key
Tough guy on the block but he running a 4-3
[Retrospect:] I'm on an emcee hustle, you can call it a mic grind
More money in a day than you will see in a lifetime
Only worried 'bout myself, 'cause I'm rapping for wealth
I got more diamonds on my belt, than an African well
[Slow V:] S-500, interior mink
I got an M3 for the bitches pussy pink
A brand new Lotus, It got to be loaded
Plus the ice on my neck make these bitches loose focus
[Retrospect:] Take a look at my house and you can tell me who's got it
One pinky ring will send your four kids through college
A true profit, spitting is how I make a living
So don't talk about dealing if it ain't about billions, Nigga
[Verse 2: Retrospect & Slow V]
[Retrospect] Yo, Slow V & Retro's like a fresh flow
From a river with lyrical minerals
The best yo
So let go, yes, oh
[Slow V:] Keep you mind blown with this hydro
The realest it gets, even our haters is loving this shit
It's SR nigga so salute, no suites, no troops
Just the truth in our daily commutes
[Retrospect:] We live in the booth, literally
Just give us a stereo beat and
Pay attention as we bury your fleet
It's scary to me, how young niggaz half your age
Can just come up on your stage and take fans away
[Slow V:] We rip them apart, 'till them niggaz needing new parts
Damage more than they flesh and leave more than a scar
Niggaz duck when our albums drop
What we spit up in this booth
Them niggaz going to need more than a mop
[Retrospect:] And more than the cops
To hold flows boiling this hot
We handle shit like Donald
When it comes to the guap
[Slow V:] It don't stop
[Retrospect] When it's representing that hip-hop
We Nike shit and Timberlands
Ya'll niggaz on flip-flops
[Slow V:] The realest to kill it, it's vivid
Just admit it you feel it
Acidic the lyrics the beat
Just admit it the sickest
If this shit were a jail, we'd have the best bars
Slow V, Retrospect, SR, yes, y'all
[Scratch:] What you heard is true