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toys

• Act Break
• Arms Up
• Aside Glance
• Beat
• Blipvert
• Bookends
• Boom Up and Over
• The Climax
• Establishing Shot
• Fade In
• Fade Out
• Fade to Black (see also Smash to Black)
• Fade to White
• Flyaway Shot
• Hat-and-Coat Shot
• An Insert
• Internal Reveal
• Iris Out
• Landing Gear Shot
• Mandatory Line
• Market-Based Title
• On The Next
• Previously On
• Script Life Cycle
• Show Parts
• Smash Cut
• Smash to Black
• The Tag
• The Teaser
• Three Act Structure
• Title In
• Where When Who

• Aborted Arc
• All Just a Dream
• Backstory
• Breather Episode
• Canon
• Character Focus
• Concepts Are Cheap
• Entrance
• Exposition
• Flat Character
• Foil
• Four Lines, All Waiting
• Framing Device
• Fridge Logic
• Half-Arc Season
• High Concept
• The Hollywood Formula
• In Medias Res
• Lead In
• Meanwhile, Back at the...
• Meanwhile Scene
• Mid-Season Upgrade
• Myth Arc
• Negative Continuity
• Nothing Is the Same Anymore
• One Shot Character
• Opening Monologue
• Opening Scroll
• Out of Focus
• Plot Tailored to the Party
• Recurring Character
• Regular Character
• Reset Button: Examples (see also): All Just a Dream; Negative Continuity; Snap Back
• Retool
• The Reveal
• Rotating Arcs
• Script Salve
• Script Wank
• Sequel Hook
• Series Goal
• Shoo Out the Clowns
• Show, Don't Tell
• Snap Back
• Stand Alone Episode
• Status Quo Is God
• Story Arc: See also: Aborted Arc; Half-Arc Season; Myth Arc; Rotating Arcs
• Subtext
• Tableau
• Take That
• Third Line, Some Waiting
• Two Lines, No Waiting: see also: Third Line, Some Waiting; Four Lines, All Waiting
• Understatement
• The Unreveal
• Wham Episode
• Willing Suspension of Disbelief
• Writing by the Seat of Your Pants
• You Bastard

• ADR
• Audio Description
• Blue Screen or Green Screen: slang for Chroma Key
• Bottle Episode
• Closed Captioning
• Concept Art
• Episode Code Number
• Five-Episode Pilot
• Fix It in Post
• Laugh Track
• Looping Lines
• Model Sheet
• MOS
• Multi-Part Episode
• Precap
• Scully Box
• Shoot the Money
• The Slug
• Squib
• Storyboard
• Studio Audience
• Stunt Double: see also Talent Double
• Stock Footage
• Syndication Title
• Talent Double