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Film vs Scriptwriting - What's the difference?

film | scriptwriting |

As nouns the difference between film and scriptwriting

is that film is a thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity while scriptwriting is the writing of scripts, usually for film or television.

As a verb film

is to record a motion picture on photographic film.

film

English

(wikipedia film)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A thin layer of some substance; a pellicle; a membranous covering, causing opacity.
  • a clear plastic film for wrapping food
  • * Alexander Pope
  • He from thick films shall purge the visual ray.
  • (photography) A medium used to capture images in a camera.
  • A motion picture.
  • A slender thread, such as that of a cobweb.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Her whip of cricket's bone, the lash of film .

    Synonyms

    * (motion picture) movie

    Derived terms

    * filmic * filmmaker * filmmaking * filmography * filmology * filmy * on film

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To record a motion picture on photographic film
  • "A Hollywood studio was filming on-location in NYC."
  • To cover with a thin skin or pellicle.
  • *
  • It will but skin and film the ulcerous place.

    Descendants

    * Japanese: * Lao: * Thai:

    Anagrams

    * 1000 English basic words ----

    scriptwriting

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The writing of scripts, usually for film or television.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=December 27, author=Haresh Pandya, title=G. P. Sippy, Indian Filmmaker Whose Sholay Was a Bollywood Hit, Dies at 93, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=Written by Mr. Sippy's favorite scriptwriting team, Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, Sholay was loosely styled on The Seven Samurai and The Magnificent Seven, and has been called India's first curry western. }}