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A step outline (also informally called a beat sheet or scene-by-scene [1]) is a detailed telling of a story with the intention of turning the story into a screenplay for a motion picture. The step outline briefly details every scene of the screenplay's story, and often has indications for dialogue and character interactions.
The word "beat" is industry slang that was derived from a famous Russian writer who told someone that writing the script was just a matter of putting all the bits together. In his heavy accent he pronounced bits as "beats". [citation needed] A beat sheet is a document with all the events in a movie script to guide the writing of that script.
The Blake Snyder Beat Sheet has become "a staple in writing classes," [6] and critics have argued (positively and negatively) that the book differs from other screenwriting books due to "the absolute specificity of Snyder's formula, as well as its widespread adoption by the film industry."
All In is a romance set in the win-or-lose world of corporate finance. David Hammer is a ruthless venture capitalist hellbent on slashing and burning Sweden’s most powerful megacorporation.
An example of "source music" is the use of the Frankie Valli song "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" in Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 thriller The Birds is an example of a Hollywood film with no non-diegetic music whatsoever.
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'Chick flick ' is a term associated with romance films mostly targeted to a female audience. [3] [4] Although many romance films may be targeted at women, it is not a defining characteristic of a romance film and a ' chick flick ' does not necessarily have a romance as a central theme, revolve around the romantic involvement of characters or even include a romantic relationship.
Works of fiction such as Wuthering Heights [6] and Jane Eyre [7] [8] combine elements from both types of romance. The terms "romance novel" and "historical romance" are ambiguous, because the words "romance", and "romantic", can have different meanings: for example, romance can refer to either romantic love, or "the character or quality that ...