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NYC Mayor's Office of Film, Theatre, & Broadcasting
The Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment encompasses the key economic and creative sectors of film, TV, theater, music, advertising, publishing, digital content and real estate as it relates to these industries.....
NYC PictureStart Film Festival
NYC PictureStart Film Festival (NYCPSFF) showcases short films from all over the world from emerging filmmakers as well as those already established in the industry.....
NYEH Entertainment
NYEH Entertainment is a New York-based production company, and the films that make up NYEH's body of work embody that fact - they are stories that reflect the real, sometimes disparate, world around us, not the standard idealistic Hollywood fare. Prided on operating as an anti-Hollywood, both in the end product created and the way gone about in....
NYFA Mumbai
Study filmmaking and acting for film in the center of the world's largest film industry with New York Film Academy Mumbai. ....
NYU TISCH - Screenwriting
Students must complete Screenwriting I and Screenwriting II, plus any two additional summer dramatic writing courses to earn this certificate.....
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
O’Melveny helps build and connect prosperous communities of law and business. Our clients come from many industries including entertainers and sports athletes. ....
O.C.
Off-camera (O.C.) is seen next to a CHARACTER’S name in all CAPS and inside a parenthetical before a specific piece of dialogue. It indicates that the writer wants a particular character to be present at the location, but only wants that character to be heard, not seen.....
O.S.
Off-screen (O.S.) is seen next to a CHARACTER’S name in all CAPS and inside a parenthetical before a specific piece of dialogue. It indicates that the writer wants a particular character to be present at the location, but only wants that character to be heard, not seen.....
Oaxaca FIlmFest
The Oaxaca FilmFest Experience is dedicated to the advancement of outstanding achievement in cinema, creating opportunities for Filmmakers and Script Writers, providing audiences with amazing entertainment, financial success for our business partners, and the enhancement of both the image and economic well-being of the State of Oaxaca.Our Bold Visi....
Oaxaca Sports Film Festival or Cinedeporte
Oaxaca Sports film festival has grown the reputation of introducing filmmakers to the industry that matters.
Some films that have screen in our festival have gotten distribution deals.....
Objective
An objective is a goal. The protagonist’s objective is his want or need or desire to accomplish something.....
Obligatory Scene
An obligatory scene is a scene which the viewer waits for and excitedly looks forward to. It tension is an eager anticipation of the future, then the obligatory scene is one that the viewer consciously expects.....
Observation
The action or process of observing something or someone carefully in order to gain information.....
Obstacles
Obstacles occur throughout the entire script but are thought of as the building blocks of the second act. Each sequence has it’s own conflict, it’s own obstacle, and the obstacles continue to increase in difficulty as we move forward with the story.....
October Studio Ltd
October Studio is a Vancouver-based video production / photography company that works on projects of all sizes for local, national, and international clients alike.....
Off Screen (o.s.)
Dialogue or sounds heard while the camera is on another subject. ....
Off Season Shorts
Off Season Shorts is a new film festival dedicated to the short film. It is held at the historic Pierre's Playhouse Theater in Victor, Idaho in the heart of the Tetons.....
Official Screenwriting
Screenwriting and the entertainment industry as it relates to filmmakers.
Adam Levenberg is author of THE STARTER SCREENPLAY and one of Hollywood’s most in demand screenwriting consultants. As a reader for USA Films (BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, TRAFFIC), Adam recommended scripts such as HOLLYWOODLAND and SYLVIA, which were both produced by the studi....
Offline
Creative editing process which uses copies of the camera tapes on a typically "cuts only" inexpensive editing system. ....
OFFSCREEN (O.S.)
Indicates that the character speaking is not visible in the frame. Always abbreviated in all capital letters and enclosed in parentheses.....
