Screenwriter

The Inventor of a film.

The most under-valued person in the filmmaking process.

Person#1: "Casablanca, what a masterpiece. You know it took four screenwriters to write that?

Person#2: "What's a Screenwriter?"

by jazz4 March 27, 2011

Screengrab

Basically a screenshot, but for people who aren't current with technology.

Mom: Look honey, I learned how to take a screengrab!
Daughter: mom it's called a screenshot

by Voidularr February 17, 2018

screener

A pre vhs tape, sent to rental stores, and various other places for promotional use. A screener is supplied on a vhs tape, and is usually in a 4:3 (fullscreen) a/r, although letterboxed screeners are sometimes found. The main draw back is a "ticker" (a message that scrolls past at the bottom of the screen, with the copyright and anti-copy telephone number). Also, if the tape contains any serial numbers, or any other markings that could lead to the source of the tape, these will have to be blocked, usually with a black mark over the section. This is sometimes only for a few seconds, but unfortunately on some copies this will last for the entire film, and some can be quite big. Depending on the equipment used, screener quality can range from excellent if done from a MASTER copy, to very poor if done on an old VHS recorder thru poor capture equipment on a copied tape. Most screeners are transferred to VCD, but a few attempts at SVCD have occured, some looking better than others.

(Sometimes abbreviated with SCR, DVDSCR.)

Carry.Me.Home.LIMITED.SVCD.DVDSCR-Pv

Suspect.Zero.SCREENER-VideoCD

by inane5 February 8, 2005

screentrance

A phenomenon that happens when you stare at a computer screen when keybored and you become cross-eyed. You are about to fall asleep, only your eyes are partly open.

Then it appears that the guy staring in the screen is in a trance from the view of another guy.

A Guy: Is he okay?
Another Guy: I think so. He's probably in a screentrance.

by asianguy22 May 31, 2010

screenography

In-game screenshot photography!

Creative and artistic images taken in video games by screenshot enthusiasts.

Screenshot art.

"The downside of outdoor screenography is that you are reliant on weather conditions and lighting changing with the time of day."

by _Aeyvi_ September 26, 2017

Screenior

An elder or person above 50 years old who is on their phone a lot. Specifically an old man who has glasses and has to holds his phone far away to read it. Can also be used to retaliate against a senior calling a teenager a screenager

Dad, get off your phone, you're being a screenior!

by Xjude7 May 7, 2017

screengrab

(n.) -- An image taken from a computer screen or homepage and duplicating it on a newspaper or magazine page (grabbing the image from the screen)

"That YouTube video image in the newspaper today was a screengrab, that's how the editors got it, off the computer screen."

-- overheard in a newsroom at a newspaper in New York, July 3, 1999

by PRwiz101 March 10, 2010