Filmclusive Encyclopedia
Live entertainment
Film production roles, equipment, workflows, and terms.
Dante
Audinate’s networked media technology for routing multichannel digital audio and related control over IP networks.
Dark time
A scheduled period when performance lighting or venue activity is unavailable to other work.
Day room
A hotel room retained for daytime rest, changing, showering, or production use outside an overnight stay.
DCA group
A digital console control group adjusting assigned channel levels without creating an audio sum.
Dead haul
A manual rigging method in which operators pull the full suspended load without counterweight or mechanical advantage.
Deck
The stage floor or working surface on which performers, scenery, and event equipment are positioned.
Deck track
A guided floor path or rail used to move scenic units across a stage.
Delay tower
A remote loudspeaker position used to extend sound coverage to distant audience areas.
DI box
A device that adapts an instrument or line-level source for a balanced microphone-input path.
Digital snake
A stage-to-console audio transport system that converts and carries multiple channels over digital links or a network.
Dimmer rack
An enclosure containing multiple controlled power dimmers for compatible entertainment lighting circuits.
Dimmer schedule
A document mapping dimmers or power-control outputs to circuits, channels, loads, and modes.
DMX
A digital control protocol used to send lighting levels, colors, and fixture parameters across a lighting network.
DMX node
A network device converting between Ethernet lighting protocols and physical DMX ports.
DMX opto-splitter
An optically isolated device distributing one DMX input to multiple protected output branches.
DMX terminator
A resistor plug placed at the end of a DMX data line to reduce signal reflections.
DMX universe
A logical group of DMX control channels addressed as one 512-channel data stream.
Door split
A settlement arrangement allocating defined ticket revenue between parties by an agreed percentage or formula.
Doors
The advertised or operational time when audience admission begins for a live event.
Double-purchase counterweight system
A counterweight arrangement using mechanical advantage so the arbor travels about half the batten distance.
Downstage
The area or direction closer to the audience on a conventional stage.
Downstream keyer
A keyer placed late in a switcher signal path for logos, titles, or overlays.
Dress rehearsal
A planned full run using performance conditions, costumes, technical cues, and show sequence as completely as practical.
Dressing room
A private backstage space where performers change, prepare, store personal items, and receive calls.
Edge blending
The overlap and luminance shaping of adjacent projected images into a wider continuous canvas.
Emergency stop
A control intended to stop hazardous machinery or motion rapidly during an emergency.
Encore
An additional performance offered after the planned main program in response to audience or artist decision.
Entertainment network switch
An Ethernet switch configured for lighting, audio, video, or show-control traffic.
Entertainment power control
A managed system switching or dimming electrical circuits for show equipment under authorized control.
Event curfew
A contractual, venue, permit, noise, transport, or labor deadline by which specified event activity must end.
Event production schedule
A master timeline covering access, load-in, rehearsals, doors, show, curfew, and load-out.
Event runner
A locally assigned worker handling approved errands and transport for touring or event departments.
Event settlement
The post-show reconciliation of ticketing, expenses, guarantees, percentages, taxes, and contractual adjustments.
Event site walk
A multidisciplinary inspection of venue or site conditions before final event planning.
False proscenium
A scenic or masking portal built inside the architectural proscenium to redefine the visible opening.
Festival changeover
The timed transition between acts requiring coordinated removal, reset, patching, line checks, and staging.
Fill speaker
A supplemental loudspeaker covering an audience area not adequately served by the main system.
Five-minute call
A backstage warning that approximately five minutes remain before a scheduled start or return.
Fixture addressing
The assignment of a control start address and universe or network identity to an entertainment device.
Fixture parameter
A controllable attribute such as intensity, pan, color, focus, or framing.
Fixture profile
A console’s structured definition of a lighting device’s control channels, ranges, defaults, and parameter behavior.
Flown line array
A vertically configured loudspeaker array suspended above the audience or stage area.
Fly loft
The tall stage volume above the performance area where flown scenery and equipment travel.
Fly system
A stage machinery system raising, lowering, and holding scenery, lighting, or curtains overhead.
Follow cue
A cue configured to execute automatically after a preceding cue or delay.
Followspot
A manually operated spotlight that tracks and illuminates a performer or moving subject.
Front fill
A loudspeaker placed near the stage edge to cover audience positions below or between the main arrays.
Front of house
The audience-facing technical position or team responsible for the main show mix or control view.
Front-of-house mix
The audience-facing live audio balance created at the main mixing position.
Gain before feedback
The usable amplification available before a microphone-loudspeaker loop becomes audibly unstable.
Gel cut list
A worksheet specifying quantities and sizes of color media needed for a lighting installation.
Genlock
A timing reference that synchronizes video devices so frames remain aligned across a system.
Go cue
The stage-management command that authorizes immediate execution of a previously identified cue.
Grand drape
The principal front curtain used to separate a stage from its audience.
Grand master
A console control that proportionally limits selected overall lighting output.
Green room
A backstage lounge or waiting room provided for performers, speakers, or guests.
Ground-stacked-pa
A loudspeaker system supported from the floor or ground rather than flown.
Half-hour call
A backstage warning traditionally given approximately thirty minutes before the announced performance start.
Hand line
A rope operated directly by hand to move, guide, or secure approved stage elements.
Head block
The overhead sheave assembly redirecting lift lines and purchase line in a fly system.
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