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  2. Turnaround (filmmaking) - Wikipedia

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    A 'turnaround' or 'turnaround deal' is occasionally used to describe an arrangement in the film industry whereby the production costs of a project that one studio has developed are declared a loss on the company's tax return, thereby preventing the studio from exploiting the property any further. The rights can then be sold to another studio in ...

  3. Filmmaking - Wikipedia

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    The bulk of post-production consists of the film editor reviewing the footage with the director and assembling the film out of selected takes. The production sound (dialogue) is also edited; music tracks and songs are composed and recorded if a film is intended to have a score; sound effects are designed and recorded.

  4. Screenwriting - Wikipedia

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    In production drafts, scene headings are numbered. Next are action lines, which describe stage direction and are generally written in the present tense with a focus only on what can be seen or heard by the audience. Character names are in all caps, centered in the middle of the page, and indicate that a character is speaking the following dialogue.

  5. Contest (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Contest is a novel by Australian author Matthew Reilly. The novel is notable for making the author's career, after being self-published when he was 22 and catching the eye of a publisher who contracted him to write more books. His subsequent writing of bestsellers such as Ice Station established his career, leading Contest to become a NYT best ...

  6. List of common film awards categories - Wikipedia

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    A "Best Foreign Language Film" is generally awarded to a film originating in a country and language different from those where the award is being given. Academy Award for Best International Feature Film, until 2020 called Best Foreign Language Film; BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language, until 1990 called Best Foreign Language Film

  7. Characterization - Wikipedia

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    An example of this includes his character Tygyn, who on his quest for peace determines that the only way for peace to exist is to use military strength to enforce. [6] The use of mythology is used in Shakespeare's Hamlet as a device to parallel the characters and to reflect back on them their role in the story, such as the use of the Niobe myth ...

  8. Development hell - Wikipedia

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    (The related terms production hell and production limbo refer to situations in which a film has begun production but has remained unfinished for a long time without progressing to post-production.) Some projects enter development hell because they were initially designed with ambitious goals, the difficulty of meeting those goals was ...

  9. Video essay - Wikipedia

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    Häxan (1922), a horror essay film about the historical roots and superstitions surrounding witchcraft. A film essay (also essay film or cinematic essay) consists of the evolution of a theme or an idea rather than a plot per se, or the film literally being a cinematic accompaniment to a narrator reading an essay. [9]