- Act: A dramatic unit consisting of a number of individual scenes.

Most hour TV
shows divide into four acts, separated by commercials or station breaks. Movies
often divide into three acts, usually without separation.
- Action: Movement within (dentro) a scene. Also, the events or developmental
happenings of a screenplay, such as a protagonist falling in love.
- Antagonist: The protagonist’s advesary. That person, thing or force that fights
to prevent the protagonist from reaching his or her goal.
- Art director. The person who designs sets, coordinating visually related
production materials.
- Art films: Films outside the commercial mainstream purporting to be artistic.
Often a psychological study of a character or relationship or a film that
accentuates atmosphere.
- Close up (close shot) (primer plano): A camera angle that frames (encuadre)
a character’s head and shoulders or that fills the screen with an object.
- Crane shot (plano hecho desde la grúa, que se mueve): Photographed from
the end of a long boom arm capable of vast sweeping movement upward,
downward, or from side to side.
- Cut (corte en el video, se cambia de repente el ángulo de la cámara por un
golpe): An instantaneous change of camera angle effected by joining together
separate film or videotape segments or by electronically switching between
cameras. Used both as a verb and a noun.
- Dissolve: A transition effect in which the picture of a concluding scene blends
(fundir) or melts into a new beginning scene, each briefly overlapping the other.
Usually marks a change of scene or time lapse.
- Dollying: Moving the camera on a four-wheel mount forward or backward,
closer to the subject matter or farther away.
- Drama: A play presented on stage, film, or videotape in which a protagonist
struggles against an antagonist to reach a goal. A story told through the actions
and dialog of actors.
- Editing: Splicing together the various “takes” that the director has
photographed in order to create an effective narrative continuity.
- Entertainment elements: Script ingredients that please audience: spectacle,
sex, conflict, order and symmetry, and humor and surprise.
- Establishing shot (ángulo de la camara para que la audiencia sepa dónde
se encuentran): A camera angle that is wide enough to orient audiences.
- Exterior (ext.): A script term that, together with a more specific locale,
describes the exterior setting for a scene. For example, EXT MANSION.
- Extreme close up (primerísimo plano): The same as tight close up.
- Fade in (hacer aparecer gradualmente): An optical effect in which the
picture emerges from blackness to full brilliance.
- Fade out (hacer desaparacer gradualmente): an optical effect in which the
picture dissolves away, usually into blackness.
- First draft: The screenplay version first turned in to a producer by a writer.
- Flashback: The dramatization of earlier events, usually from the perspective
of a specific character and thus colored by his or her emotions.
- ???? Footage: Film or videotape of scenes or other screenplay material.
- Full shot (plano entero): A script term describing a camera angle that is wide,
orienting the audience.
- Genre: a group of motion pictures or Tv programs that reflect similar stylistic,
thematic, and structural elements.
- Hero: Traditionally, a character, usually the protagonist, admired for noble
qualities, a performer or heroic deeds. Often regarded as a model or ideal.
- High angle shot (picado): a view of a scene photographed from a camera
placed above eye level. Often used for establishing setting.
- Interior: A script term that, when used with more specific locale, describes the
interior setting for a scene. For example, INT. BEDROOM.
- Lap dissolve: Earlier term for a dissolve.
- Long shot (plano general, para situar a la audicencia): An angle providing a
comprehensive view of the locale and action, an orienting shot.
- Medium shot (plano medio): A camera angle approximately halfway between
a close and a full shot. Usually includes a character’s waist or hips.
- Melodrama: A sensational or highly emotional story designed to thrill
audiences. A story or action that intensifies sentiment, often featuring one-
dimensional characters, with music liberally underscoring action.
- Mise-en-scène (escenografía): The physical setting for dramatic action. May
include the movement of characters, choice of scenery, control of time frame,
and selection of camera angles.
- Montage (montaje): Usually a succession of visual images or short scenes for
the purpose of establishing a single plot point.
- Narrative (screenplay): Telling a story in manuscript form through use of
dialog, stage direction, and, perhaps, camera manipulation. Most screenplay
narrative derives from dramatic principles.
- Narrative action: The events in a screenplay that move the story forward
(adelante).
- Over shoulder shot: A camera angle framed past foreground head and
shoulders of character A, with a frontal view of character B.
- Pan (panning shot, barrido): A camera move created when the camera head
turns horizontally with the camera base remaining stationary. The frame moves
sideways. From the word panorama.
- Parallel plot (argumento paralelo): A story or subplot that develops
simultaneously with the main story line. Cutting between two developing plots
seems to propel a story forward dynamically.
- P.O.V shot (cámara subjetiva): A camera angle that depicts what a character
sees. See subjective camera.
- Special effects: Trick photography, optical effects, or those devised on the set
(explosions, smoke...)
- Storyboard (guión ilustrado): A series of hand drawn sketches action as
viewed by the camera, angle by angle.
- Subjective camera: When the camera seems to become a character,
photographing action from his or her POV.
- Suspense: apprehension generated by concern for the safety or well-being of
the protagonist: All successful screenplay generate suspense since they cause
viewers to worry that the protagonist will fail to reach his or her goal.
- Tight close up (extreme close-up) (primerísimo primer plano): A camera
angle that fills the screen with an object. Usually a head shot.
- Tilting (inclinación): Moving the camera head either upward or down, the
camera base remaining fixed position.
- Tracking shot (recorrido de la cámara con los personajes): The camera
moves with performers, usually in their tracks, photographing them front or rear.
Sometimes confused with trucking shot.
- V.O: Voice over.
 - Zoom shot (escena de zoom): A change of angle that, through a lens
adjustment, moves quickly or slowly from a wide to a close angle, or viceversa.

DEFINICIÓN DE PITCH (QUE DICTÓ EN CLASE): A pitch is when a screenwriter

3 Definiciones que dictó en clase

Special effects: tricks and illusions for films and TV created using cameraworks,
optical effects and computer graphics
Storyboard: a sequence of drawings representing the shots planned in a film or a tv
production
Suspense: feeling excited or anxious uncertainty about what may happen to the
protagonist