shooting script
noun
1
: the final completely detailed version of a motion-picture script in which scenes are grouped in the order most convenient for shooting
2
: the final version of a television script used in the production of a program
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Using the verbatim recording of that FBI interrogation as its shooting script — complete with stutters and awkward pauses, odd non-sequiturs and apparent banalities — the film has a quasi-documentary feel, a sense broken only with sudden flash edits to indicate redacted sections of the transcript.
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Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
The shooting script was close to the original 135.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
After the scripts were submitted, Barlow assembled the stories into a shooting script and the larger game narrative.
—Jon Peltz, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
The words poured out of Branagh, taking him roughly eight weeks to assemble into a shooting script.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
Studios interested in backing the Oppenheimer picture were allowed to see Nolan’s shooting script, but were asked to read it at the director’s office to avoid leaks.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
In the shooting script for A New Hope, the mentor figure, Obi-Wan Kenobi, survives to the end rather than dying midway through.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2021
Improvisation can be a powerful tool for developing characters and getting at their inner lives; the great English filmmaker Mike Leigh works with his actors for weeks before formalizing their intuitions and inventions into a shooting script.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Along with Boseman’s costume, the museum will feature a shooting script signed by co-writer and director Ryan Coogler, producer and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, executive producer Nate Moore, and co-writer and producer Joe Robert Cole.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 26 June 2018
Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
The shooting script was close to the original 135.
—Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2021
After the scripts were submitted, Barlow assembled the stories into a shooting script and the larger game narrative.
—Jon Peltz, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
The words poured out of Branagh, taking him roughly eight weeks to assemble into a shooting script.
—Brent Lang, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
Studios interested in backing the Oppenheimer picture were allowed to see Nolan’s shooting script, but were asked to read it at the director’s office to avoid leaks.
—Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
In the shooting script for A New Hope, the mentor figure, Obi-Wan Kenobi, survives to the end rather than dying midway through.
—Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 21 June 2021
Improvisation can be a powerful tool for developing characters and getting at their inner lives; the great English filmmaker Mike Leigh works with his actors for weeks before formalizing their intuitions and inventions into a shooting script.
—Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018
Along with Boseman’s costume, the museum will feature a shooting script signed by co-writer and director Ryan Coogler, producer and Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, executive producer Nate Moore, and co-writer and producer Joe Robert Cole.
—Megan Farokhmanesh, The Verge, 26 June 2018
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First Known Use
circa 1929, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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circa 1929
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