Screenplays and Scripts - Understand the Difference
Audience of the products of entertainment industries all over the world and people who are aspiring entertainment industry wannabes and workers if not the professionals in almost all parts of the globe have developed the habit of using the terms screenplay and script interchangeably with the later one most frequently used. This, however, is an erroneous custom and needs to be changed as to depict our correct understanding of the two terms as well as leading the people who are unconnected to the industry terms to quote the terms appropriately. Let’s begin to understand the difference between screenplays and scripts by having a look at the definitions of the terms used to refer to the writing tasks of the two types of entertainment industry documents. Screenwriting (not Screen Writing): Screenwriting, sometimes written as Screen Writing, which is no more a valid method of writing the term in almost all of the Hollywood but in few other parts of the world, is the term given to the ta...