fictionalizations
Made-up story versions
Fictionalizations are works that transform real events, people, or situations into fiction.
A fictionalization of a historical figure's life takes documented facts and fills gaps with invented dialogue, scenes, or motivations.
The term often implies the source material was true: The movie is a fictionalization of the 1995 robbery.
Fictionalizations blur the line between documentary and imagination.
New device or method
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- world-buildingCreating fictional universes
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
- reimaginingFresh interpretation of existing material
creative interpretation · alternate history · counterfactual · mythologizing
Film's written blueprint
- filmMovie or coating
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
- miniseriesFinite-episode TV narrative
- docudramaDramatized account of actual events
biopic · dramatization · casting · director · actors · script · producer · studio
Recounting events aloud
- narrativeAccount of events
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- charactersPersons in a narrative
- settingContext of events
dialogue · arc · conflict · protagonist · scenes · structure · narrator · prose
Overstating beyond reality
- dramatizationConverting events to performance
- distortionTwisting from original state
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
- hyperboleRhetorical extreme exaggeration
enhancement · amplification · overstatement · coloring · embroidery · misrepresentation · elaboration · aggrandizement
Extended prose fiction
- novelizationAdapting films into books
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- publishingDistributing written works publicly
- authorsCreators of written works
genres · faction · docufiction · creative nonfiction · literary adaptation · narrative nonfiction
invention
New device or method
- fantasyImaginative mental wandering
- world-buildingCreating fictional universes
- speculationUnproven theorizing or risky investment
reimagining · creative interpretation · alternate history · counterfactual · mythologizing
screenplay
Film's written blueprint
- filmMovie or coating
- televisionBroadcast viewing device
- miniseriesFinite-episode TV narrative
docudrama · biopic · dramatization · casting · director · actors · script · producer · studio · remake
storytelling
Recounting events aloud
- narrativeAccount of events
- plotStoryline or land parcel
- charactersPersons in a narrative
setting · dialogue · arc · conflict · protagonist · scenes · structure · narrator · prose · point of view
exaggeration
Overstating beyond reality
- dramatizationConverting events to performance
- distortionTwisting from original state
- fabricationDeliberately untrue statement
hyperbole · enhancement · amplification · overstatement · coloring · embroidery · misrepresentation · elaboration · aggrandizement · artistic license
novels
Extended prose fiction
- novelizationAdapting films into books
- manuscriptsHandwritten or typed originals
- publishingDistributing written works publicly
authors · genres · faction · docufiction · creative nonfiction · literary adaptation · narrative nonfiction
fictionalizationsdocumentaries
Films depicting real events
nonfiction · documentations · historical records · eyewitness accounts · primary sources
fictionalizationsdocumentaries
Films depicting real events
nonfiction · reportage · journalism · news reports · biographies