The important thing to remember is that a good pitch is a description of what actually happens. It's a one sentence description of the plot,not the theme.
LOGLINE
A brief summary of a television program or film, often providing both a synopsis of the program's plot, and an emotional "hook" to stimulate interest.
SYNOPSIS
A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
CHARACTER BIO
A detailed description or account of someone's life. More than a list of basic facts (education, work, relationships, and death), biography also portrays the subject's experience of those events.
STORYLINE
A collection of plots and sub plots that form the story from start to end.
SCENE BREAKDOWN
a) An analysis of a screenplay in which all of the production elements are reduced to lists in order to schedule and budget the production
b) A director’s creative analysis of the dramatic action, reciprocal struggle, theme, and design elements of a screenplay.
BEATS
Specific, measured, and spaced to create a pace that moves the progress of the story forward. Audiences feel uneven or erratic beats. Uneven beats are the most forgettable or sometimes tedious parts of a film. Erratic beats jolt the audience unnecessarily. Every cinematic genre has a beat that is specific to its development. Action film has significantly more beats (usually events); drama has fewer beats (usually protagonist decisions or discovery). Between each beat a sequence occurs. This sequence is often a series of scenes that relates to the last beat and leads up to the next beat.
PLOTS
A literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, or by coincidence.
SUB PLOTS
A secondary plot strand that is a supporting side story for any story or the main plot. Subplots may connect to main plots, in either time and place or in thematic significance. Subplots often involve supporting characters, those besides the protagonist or antagonist.
TURNING POINTS
A moment when the course of events is changed
SCRIPT
A script is a document that outlines every aural, visual, behavioral, and lingual element required to tell a story.
All situations/plots can have these:
HOOK / TEASER
A literary technique in the opening of a story that "hooks" the reader's attention so that he or she will keep on reading. The "opening" may consist of several paragraphs for a short story, or several pages for a novel, but ideally it is the opening sentence.
MOTIVE
A reason for a character to do something, esp. one that is hidden or not obvious.
CONFLICT
The struggle found in fiction. Conflict/Plot may be internal or external and is best seen in (1) Man in conflict with another Man: (2) Man in conflict in Nature; (3) Man in conflict with self.
DRAMATIC SEQUENCE
Sequence of events in which o ne thing leads to another and so on.
CLIMAX
Point of highest tension or drama or when the action starts in which the solution is given.
RESOLUTION
A resolve or determination.
OUTCOME
A final product or end result; consequence; issue.
PARADIGM
diagram of a script/template
ACTS
Act1
Beginning setup
Act2
Middle confrontation
Act3
Ending solution
SET UP
Where all of the main characters and their basic situation are introduced, and contains the primary level of characterization (exploring the character's backgrounds and personalities).
CONFRONTATION
The bulk of the story, and begins when the inciting incident (or catalyst) sets things into motion. This is the part of the story where the characters go through major changes in their lives as a result of what is happening; this can be referred to as thecharacter arc, or character development.
RESOLUTION
When the problem in the story boils over, forcing the characters to confront it, allowing all elements of the story to come together and inevitably leading to the ending.-wiki
PLOT POINTS
In television and film, a plot point is a significant event within a plot that digs into the action and spins it around in another direction. It can also be an object of significant importance, around which the plot revolves. It can be anything from an event to an item to the discovery of a character or motive. The plot point is usually introduced at the exposition of the movie.
MOTIVE
Want to achieve something.
CONFLICT
Necessary element of fictional literature. It is defined as the problem in any piece ofliterature and is often classified according to the nature of the protagonist or antagonist.
DRAMATIC ENTERTAINMENT
Drama to entertain
References: Wikipedia and Dictionary.com, plus lecturer's description
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