Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Scenes, beats & screenplay formatting · Specialist

Super

Also called: supers, on-screen text

ELI5

A screenplay instruction showing that text should appear over the picture.

Used in conversation

“Add a super that tells us the story has moved forward three years.”

Definition

A screenplay instruction indicating that text should appear over the image.

Here “Super” means: A screenplay instruction indicating that text should appear over the image. Other meanings are stored as separate sense entries and must be chosen explicitly.

Pitch context

Use this when explaining how the story works on the page or across the finished screen experience.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

Connected terms

  • SuperAn advertising super is the on-screen text itself; a screenplay SUPER is the instruction that such text should appear.
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