How to Use shooting script in a Sentence

shooting script

noun
  • Ramis had left large gaps throughout the shooting script for Murray to fill in later.
    Chris Nashawaty, SI.com, 17 Apr. 2018
  • The words poured out of Branagh, taking him roughly eight weeks to assemble into a shooting script.
    Brent Lang, Variety, 27 Oct. 2021
  • Studios interested in backing the Oppenheimer picture were allowed to see Nolan’s shooting script, but were asked to read it at the director’s office to avoid leaks.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 14 Sep. 2021
  • In both screenwriter Charles Lederer’s final draft of the shooting script, dated 1939, and in the film itself, the Chicago indicators run rampant.
    Michael Phillips, chicagotribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
  • The studio junked the rest of the footage, and apart from a reconstruction cobbled together recently with production stills and the shooting script, the release version is all that remains today.
    Patrick Friel, Chicago Reader, 2 Feb. 2018
  • After the scripts were submitted, Barlow assembled the stories into a shooting script and the larger game narrative.
    Jon Peltz, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 Nov. 2022
  • That said, a finished shooting script isn't actually always final.
    Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Improvisation can be a powerful tool for developing characters and getting at their inner lives; the great English filmmaker Mike Leigh works with his actors for weeks before formalizing their intuitions and inventions into a shooting script.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 9 Aug. 2018

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