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Screenplay
I've listed this article for peer review because as an aspiring screenwriter myself, I'm elated to hear from experts on the subject on what else could be added to attain comprehensiveness.

Thanks, Slightlymad (talk) 11:13, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Preliminary notes
The current article for Screenplay is a start article within the family of articles dealing with Filmmaking and production of films currently maintained on Wikipedia. Most of the articles dealing with filmmaking are at this rudimentary level of development. Filmmaking normally goes through several stages which lead to the distribution of films and profits at the end of the filmmaking stages. Writing a screenplay usually comes within the development stage of filmmaking quite early in the cycle. The Infobox on the filmmaking article linked above may be useful to you.

Within the articles dealing with filmmaking, there is a C-class article on Cinematography which has a level of article development which might be helpful in setting a course for improving the screenplay article. Some aspects of the article there might help to structurally set up an outline for the screenplay article which would at least help to move the article toward C-class. As you likely may know, cinematography comes in the filming phase of filmmaking after the development phase of filmmaking has been completed so the analogy to writing a screenplay has some limits.

Deciding on what form of outline you wish to use for this article for Screenplay in your wanting to improve it might be a first good step. JohnWickTwo (talk) 13:14, 24 July 2017 (UTC)

Part Two: Peer review of article
The start article here for screenplay uses the following outline:

1 Format and style

1.1 Physical format

2 Screenplay formats

2.1 Feature film

2.1.1 Spec screenplay

2.2 Television

2.3 Documentaries

3 Screenwriting software

4 Script coverage

This does not appear to be nearly as well organized as the article for cinematography which has a fully developed lead section and is at least a C-class article with the following outline:

1 History

1.1 Precursors

1.2 Film cinematography

1.3 Black and white

1.4 Color

1.5 Digital cinematography

2 Aspects

2.1 Cinema technique

2.2 Image sensor and film stock

2.3 Filters

2.4 Lens

2.5 Depth of field and focus

2.6 Aspect ratio and framing

2.7 Lighting

2.8 Camera movement

3 Special effects

3.1 Double exposure

3.2 Frame rate selection

3.3 Other special techniques

4 Personnel

These two outlines are included together since I think it would be useful to include a history section in the Screenplay article before getting into the material that is already there. Then include all the current screenplay material as the section two which would follow the new history section for an enhanced screenplay article. A separate section discussing the importance of the screenplay to all five phases of the filmmaking process might also be useful on a phase-by-phase basis as it is already discussed in the filmmaking article here at Wikipedia. Finally, the importance of storyboards needs to be addressed more adequately as a supplement to conventional screenplays used during production. The current link to the pre-production article at the top of Screenplay is a stub and not useful here. The main article is filmmaking from what I see. The infobox currently used on filmmaking should be included here as well. This peer review is completed for now; space is open below in case anyone wishes to supplement and add comments for the article's possible improvement in the future. JohnWickTwo (talk) 01:27, 25 July 2017 (UTC)