GENRE:
class, classification, grouping, or type of story.
eg: fantasy, adventure, horor, thriller, action, romance, comedy,
...
CLICHE:
a condition when a story is too typical and predictable
eg: happily ever after, the bad characters lose in the end
STEREOTYPE:
An assumption of character to be a bad guy, or a loser
character. An inaccurate expectation of
what will a character is going to be.
Eg: Mr. Bean
ANTAGONIST:
The main bad or evil character in a story or movie, and
should be the enemy of the protagonist character
Eg: Plankton in Spongebob Squarepants
PROTAGONIST:
The good character or the leading character in a story or
movie, and should be against the antagonist character
Eg: Spongebob himself
SUPPORTING CHARACTER:
The character that will be the partner, friend, comrade or
etc for the main character to make the story more interesting.
Eg: Patrick
COMIC RELIEF:
A character that always make the story funny and raise the
mood of the audience with the joke he make. Have a cheerful, stupid, ridiculous,
or even nonsense personality.
Eg: Scratch the squirrel in ice age
CHARACTERIZATION:
Something to describe what type of character that is.
Eg: protagonist, antagonist, supporting character, …
CONCEPT/ CONCEPTUALIZATON:
The main idea of what is the story/ movie about.
THEME:
Kind of mood or style of the whole story/ movie from the
beginning to the end.
PITCH:
The short summary of the story/ movie
LOGLINE:
The main idea that telling the story just in one sentence.
CHARACTER BIO:
All the information or the background that explain the
character.
SYNOPSIS:
The main summary of the story.
STORYLINE:
All the detailed and completed of the story script from
beginning to ending.
TREATMENT:
Rough / draft version of movie. Can be in animatic
DEVELOPMENT HELL:
A time when a movie is freezing in progress because of the
development. It may takes a long time to start or never does.
