Glossary
Film production glossary
254 terms you will hear in a production office or on set, each with a plain definition, an example from real paperwork, and links to the templates and roles that use it.
Scheduling
- Abby Singer shot
- Advance schedule
- Back to one
- Banner strip
- Block shooting
- Call time
- Company move
- Cover set
- Cross-boarding
- Day break
- Day for night
- Day out of days
- Drop and pickup
- First team
- Forced call
- General crew call
- Hold day
- Hot set
- Lock-up
- Martini shot
- Night shoot
- One-line schedule
- Page count
- Page eighths
- Pickup shot
- Pre-production
- Prep week
- Principal photography
- Production board
- Rehearsal day
- Second team
- Second unit
- Shoot day
- Shooting schedule
- Splinter unit
- Split day
- Start work finish
- Strip
- Stripboard
- Travel day
- Turnaround
- Weather cover
- Wrap
Breakdown
- A-pages
- A-scenes
- Animal wrangler
- Background actors
- Breakdown color codes
- Breakdown element
- Breakdown sheet
- Continuity
- Day/night
- Featured extra
- Greenery
- Hair and makeup
- Hand prop
- Hero prop
- INT./EXT.
- Locked script
- Music playback
- Omitted scene
- Picture vehicle
- Props
- Revision colors
- Scene heading
- Scene number
- Script breakdown
- Script day
- Set dressing
- Shooting script
- Slugline
- Special effects
- Special equipment
- Stand-in
- Story day
- Stunts
- Visual effects
- Wardrobe
Budgeting
- Above-the-line
- Backend points
- Below-the-line
- Box rental
- Budget variance
- Burn rate
- Cash flow schedule
- Chart of accounts
- Completion bond
- Contingency
- Cost report
- Day rate
- Deferred pay
- Errors and omissions insurance
- Estimate to complete
- Flat rate
- Fringes
- Golden time
- Hard costs
- Hot costs
- Kit rental
- Loan-out company
- Locked budget
- Low Budget Agreement
- Meal penalty
- Moderate Low Budget Agreement
- Negative cost
- Overhead fee
- Overtime
- Payroll company
- Pension and health
- Per diem
- Petty cash
- Prints and advertising
- Producer fee
- Production budget
- Production insurance
- Purchase order
- SAG-AFTRA tiers
- Seventh day
- Shutdown costs
- Sixth day
- Soft costs
- Top sheet
- Ultra Low Budget Agreement
- Weekly rate
- Workers' compensation
Paperwork
- Advance call sheet
- Call sheet
- Camera report
- Certificate of insurance
- Check request
- Contact sheet
- Continuity report
- Crew list
- Daily production report
- Deal memo
- Exhibit G
- Lined script
- Location agreement
- Location release
- Safety bulletin
- Script supervisor report
- Shot list
- Sign-in sheet
- Sound report
- Start paperwork
- Storyboard
- Talent release
- Time card
- Wrap report
On Set
Unions & Legal
Camera & Post
- ADR (Automated Dialogue Replacement)
- Assembly Cut
- B-Roll
- Color Grading
- Conform
- Dailies
- DCP (Digital Cinema Package)
- Deliverables
- EDL (Edit Decision List)
- Fine Cut
- Foley
- LUT (Look-Up Table)
- M&E Tracks (Music and Effects)
- Pickup Day
- Picture Lock
- Proxy Files
- QC Report (Quality Control Report)
- Rough Cut
- Shooting Ratio
- Spotting Session
Financing & Incentives
- Cash Rebate
- Co-production Treaty
- Collection Account
- Completion Guarantor
- Cultural Test
- Development
- Distribution Agreement
- Equity Financing
- Festival Strategy
- Film Tax Credit
- Gap Financing
- Greenlight
- Location Offset
- Lookbook
- Minimum Guarantee (MG)
- Minimum Spend
- Negative Pickup
- Option Agreement
- PDV Offset
- Pitch Deck
- Pre-Sales
- Producer Offset
- Qualified Spend
- Recoupment
- Refundable Tax Credit
- Sales Agent
- Soft Money
- Spec Script
- Transferable Tax Credit
- Waterfall (Recoupment Waterfall)