Reference
Glossary
- Action
- In a scene's context: what happens in it, in one sentence. In the text: everything that is neither dialogue nor parenthetical.
- Arc
- A character's evolution: an initial situation, turning points, a final situation.
- Bible
- The document that gathers the project: presentation, sheets, step outline, screenplay, notes.
- Breakdown
- The list of scenes with what is needed to shoot them: set, time, characters, elements.
- Cast
- The characters present in a scene. Also: the actors considered for a part (Cast page).
- Context
- A scene's location, time of the action, narrative time, weather, action and stakes.
- Conventions
- The project's vocabularies: shot sizes, camera moves, times of the action, genres…
- Floor plan
- The set seen from above: set dressing, characters, cameras, lights.
- Fountain
- The screenwriters' plain-text format: simple text, formatted by the software.
- Heading
- The line that opens a scene:
INT. LOCATION - SUB-LOCATION - TIME. Gilgamesh builds it from the context. - Inspector
- The right-hand panel, opened with the button at the top right of the page: the settings of the open element.
- Key
- On the floor plan, an element's position and orientation at one moment of the timeline.
- Logline
- The film in one sentence.
- Milestone
- A project version you name.
- Narrative time
- The scene's place in the chronology: continuous, flashback…
- Parenthetical
- An acting direction, in brackets under the character's name.
- Rail
- The navigation column, on the left of the app.
- Scene
- The unit of writing: one location, one moment, one continuous action.
- Sent version
- A frozen version of the screenplay, addressed to readers, each with their own link.
- Setup
- One way of shooting a scene, placed on a floor plan.
- Shot
- One take of the camera, described by six principles; on the set, a camera.
- Shot list
- The list of shots, scene by scene, with their characteristics.
- Sides
- An actor's scenes, printed for an audition or the shoot.
- Snapshot
- A recorded moment of the floor plan; it can replace a shot's thumbnail in the shot list.
- Stakes
- What is at play in a scene, in one sentence.
- Step outline
- The list of scenes, summed up; a Bible template.
- Sub-location
- A location filed inside another: the apartment's kitchen.
- Template
- The choice of a Bible's sections, their order and its options.
- Time of the action
- The moment when the scene takes place: day, night, dawn…
- Timeline
- The time line under the floor plan, where keys are set.
- Treatment
- The structure of the story, scene by scene, as sticky notes (Organize page).
- Turning point
- An event that changes a character, with the state before and the state after, linked to a scene.