What do all the English terms in the movie script mean?

Fading in will appear in the upper left corner of the home page.

Fading out will appear in the lower right corner of the last page.

Intermediate transitions are often cut to/fade to/fade to, and which one to write depends on the different transition methods.

In the scene title /slugline,

The extended file system represents the outside and the inside. Represents the interior, and the specific location is written after EXT. /INT。

Day means day, and night means night.

INTERCUT means that the plot of a scene takes place in two different places at the same time and needs to be cut.

Flashback means flashback, and there will be an ending flashback after the flashback paragraph.

In the role dialogue, the words in brackets belong to the parenthesis of the dialogue.

Commonly used (beat), indicating the change of story rhythm, usually a pause in dialogue; (pause) means to pause the conversation.

(French/German/Chinese ...) means that the character speaks a foreign language, but the script is written in English;

(English subtitles) means that English subtitles will be added to this foreign language dialogue.

The (more) at the end of the page indicates that the words of the last role on this page have not been finished, and continue to the next page;

(CONT'D), that is, Continued, is used to indicate that the conversation is still going on when the words of the characters on the previous page are not finished, or when the words of the characters on the same page are interrupted by an action/situation.

(O.S.), that is, off-screen, means that the character appears in the scene, but the audience can't see him/her and can only hear his/her voice.

(v.o.), that is, Voiceover, means that the character does not actually appear in the scene, but the audience can hear his/her voice from the telephone/radio and other equipment in the scene; (v.o.) is also used for the inner monologue/explanation of the role.

(Connect) and (Hang up), which are used for telephone conversation.

A series of shots:

answer ...

b) ...

c) ...

and

Montage:

answer ...

b) ...

c) ...

Both series shots and montage mean combining a series of shots/pictures to avoid using too many scene titles.

Series shots are usually used for things that happen at the same time and place, paying attention to logical order;

Montage is to combine scenes from different time and space to render emotions or create an atmosphere.

A ... b)...c) ... Each bar represents a shot/picture.