"Screenplays are intermediate technical and creative artifacts used by actors, directors, cinematographers, editors, and producers to coordinate film production."
Film at Yale describes the screenplay as the story that production departments collectively work to realize, with directors interpreting the script, cinematographers organizing its visual realization, and editors assembling the finished film. This supports the comparison between screenplays and source code as intermediate artifacts that coordinate specialized contributors. The page is undated, so 2026 is estimated from its displayed copyright year.
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