Editing Teleplay (section)

==Usage==
According to current [[Writers Guild of America]] guidelines, a television script consists of two distinct parts: "story" and "teleplay". The story comprises "basic narrative, idea, theme or outline indicating character development and action", while the teleplay consists of "individual scenes and full [[dialogue]] or [[monologue]] (including [[narration]] in connection therewith), and camera set-ups, if required".<ref name=wga/> Simply put, the script distinguishes the contribution of ideas toward the story from the actual writing of the dialogue and stage directions present on the page in the finished product. 

Accordingly, story and teleplay will appear as distinct credits on a television script if different people played those roles in the script's creation; if the same person or people performed both roles equally (unless they also worked on the concept with one or more people not directly involved in writing the script or developing the story concept), then the story and teleplay credits will not be used and instead a merged "written by" credit will be given.<ref name=wga/> However, a "written by" credit may be given to at most only three people; if more than three people were involved, then the credits ''must'' distinguish those who were "story" contributors from those who were "teleplay" contributors.<ref name=wga/>