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✍️Screenwriting II
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A

Aaron Sorkin
Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Accelerating pace
Act break
Act transitions
Action beats
Action line
Action line tightening
Action lines
Action, Dialogue, and Description Balance
Action-reaction intercutting
Active Listening
Active Viewing
Active Voice
Adaptation rights
Advance payment
Age
Alfred Hitchcock
Alien Cultures
All Rights Reserved
Allegory
Allocating screen time
Alternate history
Alternate selves
Alternating plots
Ambiguity
Ambiguous sentences
Ambition
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)
Angle on
Antagonist
Antagonist-protagonist relationship
Antagonistic Forces
Antagonistic relationship
Anti-hero
Aristotelian Unity
Artificial intelligence
Audience engagement
Audience misdirection
Audience reaction
Audience targeting
Auditory cues
Austin Film Festival
Auxiliary function
Avid Media Composer
Awkward silences

B

B-story
Backstory Integration
Balancing vision and suggestions
Barry Jenkins
Beat
Beats
Behavioral patterns
Big Five Personality Traits
Bird's eye view
Blade Runner
Body Horror
Body language
Bong Joon-ho
Box office performance
Breach of contract
Breaking the fourth wall
Burrow-Giles Lithographic Co. v. Sarony
Butterfly Effect
Butterfly imagery

C

Call to action
Call-back
Camera angles
Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc.
Cannes Film Festival
Carl Jung's Archetypes
Catalyst
Catharsis
Cause-and-effect connections