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• Picture Catering Crew Member

  A Picture Catering Crew Member supports meal preparation and service for a film or television company working on stages or locations. They load supplies, prepare ingredients, set service, maintain hot and cold holding, replenish stations, identify dietary options, wash and sanitize equipment, manage waste, and help the Caterer adjust quantities and timing as crew size or the shooting plan changes.

• Picture Editor

  A Picture Editor selects and arranges moving images and synchronized sound to create the finished visual narrative. They evaluate performances and coverage, build scenes, control information and point of view, shape pace and transitions, collaborate with the Director and Producers, test music and sound, solve structural problems, manage revisions, and turn over an approved picture to sound, music, visual effects, color, and finishing.

• Picture lock

  The point at which editorial timing and shot order are approved for downstream finishing.

• Pictures up

  A warning that rehearsal is ending and the next run is intended for recording.

• Pilot script

  A screenplay for an opening episode intended to establish an episodic series and its repeatable engine.

• Pin rail

  A rail holding belaying pins used to secure hemp-system stage rigging lines.

• Pipe clamp

  A clamp shaped to attach a fixture or accessory to pipe of a specified diameter.

• Pipe grid

  An overhead network of structural pipe used as approved mounting positions for studio equipment.

• Pit

  A lowered orchestra area or controlled audience-working zone immediately in front of a stage.

• Pitch

  A focused presentation intended to secure interest, attachment, financing, distribution, or another next step.

• Pitch deck

  A visual presentation that communicates a project’s concept, audience, team, scope, and financing case.

• Pixel pitch

  The distance between neighboring pixels in a display, commonly used to describe LED wall resolution and viewing distance.

• PL mount

  ARRI’s positive-locking cinema lens mount, widely used with professional motion-picture lenses.

• Places call

  The stage-management instruction for performers and crew to take their required starting positions.

• Planar tracking

  Motion analysis following a flat surface region through translation, scale, rotation, and perspective change.

• Planned running time

  The target duration of a completed project, episode, act, or segment.

• Plant microphone

  A microphone hidden or placed within scenery, props, vehicles, or the set to cover a defined action area.

• Plate photography

  Production photography captured specifically as source imagery for later compositing or effects work.

• Plate shot

  A photographed element intended as a background, clean source, or component for visual effects.

• Playback QC

  Real-time review of a deliverable through an appropriate playback path from beginning to end.

• Playback review

  An authorized review of the recorded take on set or at video village.

• Playhead

  The timeline indicator showing the current temporal position for playback, editing, or navigation.

• Playwright

  A Playwright writes dramatic work intended for live performance, creating characters, dialogue, action, structure, rhythm, stage directions, and theatrical possibilities that actors and designers can realize before an audience. They research and draft the play, hear it through readings and workshops, revise with collaborators, respond to production discoveries, and protect the distinction between the authored text and a specific staging.

• Plus green gel

  Color-correction media that adds green to better match selected discharge or fluorescent sources.

• Point hoist

  A powered hoist controlling a single lifting point for scenery or entertainment equipment.

• Point load

  A concentrated force applied to a relatively small area of a supporting structure.

• Point tracking

  Motion analysis following one or more localized image features across frames.

• Point-of-view shot

  A shot representing what a character or subject is understood to see.

• Points

  A warning used while carrying long, sharp, hot, or awkward equipment through a work area.

• Poisonous-plant exposure

  Skin, eye, or respiratory risk from toxic or irritating vegetation.

• Polarizing filter

  A rotatable optical filter used to manage polarized reflections, glare, and sky saturation.

• Pony clamp

  A spring-loaded hand clamp commonly used for lightweight grip and temporary holding tasks.

• Portable distro

  Temporary distribution equipment dividing a production power source into protected output circuits.

• Positioning device system

  A body-support system allowing a worker to work hands-free on a vertical surface while limiting movement.

• Post-Production Assistant

  A Post-Production Assistant provides administrative and logistical support to editorial and post-management teams by organizing files and rooms, making approved runs, scheduling sessions, preparing notes and distributions, tracking deliveries, assisting screenings, coordinating meals and supplies, and keeping shared information current. They handle media only as authorized and protect confidential cuts, credentials, documents, and release information.

• Post-production continuity script

  A detailed record of final program content, timings, shots, dialogue, music, and other required elements.

• Post-Production Coordinator

  A Post-Production Coordinator runs the calendars, documents, vendors, purchase orders, crew lists, travel, deliveries, cuts, review links, notes, and follow-ups that support the Post Supervisor and editorial team. They keep every session, version, asset, and approval moving to the right person on time.

• Post-production schedule

  A dependency-based calendar for editorial, sound, music, visual effects, color, approvals, mastering, and delivery.

• Post-Production Supervisor

  A Post-Production Supervisor plans and oversees the people, schedule, budget, vendors, workflows, approvals, and deliverables that carry a project from production through picture editorial, sound, music, visual effects, color, online, mastering, and final delivery.

• Power distribution

  The planned delivery, protection, and monitoring of electrical power from source to production loads.

• Power window

  A shaped spatial mask used in color grading to restrict an adjustment to part of the image.

• Power-line clearance

  The required separation between people, equipment, loads, and energized overhead electrical conductors.

• PPE

  Personal protective equipment selected for the hazards present, such as eye, hearing, hand, or fall protection.

• Practical effect

  A physical effect created in front of the camera rather than generated entirely in post-production.

• Practical light

  Illumination produced by a working fixture visible within the photographed scene.

• Pre-call plan

  A schedule of department or individual work required before the main unit call.

• Pre-Production PA

  A Pre-Production PA supports the office and department teams before photography by organizing documents, making runs, preparing rooms and supplies, updating contact and distribution lists, helping with research and logistics, tracking deliveries, and responding to changing priorities. They provide reliable administrative and physical support while learning how schedules, locations, casting, design, crew, vendors, and approvals converge before the shoot.

• Pre-task plan

  A brief documented review of a specific task’s steps, hazards, controls, people, and stop conditions.

• Precomposition

  A nested composition used to group layers or processing within a larger motion-graphics or effects comp.

• Prelight

  Lighting work performed before the principal cast or scheduled photography arrives at a set or location.

• Premise

  The foundational situation and dramatic proposition that makes a story possible.

• Premix

  A focused mixing pass that balances and processes a group of elements before the final mix.

• Premultiplied alpha

  An image representation in which color channels are already multiplied by transparency values.

• Premultiply

  The operation of multiplying color channels by alpha so stored color is associated with opacity.

• Prep day

  A paid or scheduled workday assigned to preparation rather than principal photography.

• Presale

  A license or distribution commitment for a project made before the completed work is delivered.

• Preset

  The required scenic, prop, costume, lighting, sound, and performer state established before a performance or sequence.

• Pressure plate

  A camera or transport component that supports film against the gate for stable positioning.

• Preview bus

  A switcher selection path used to inspect the next source before taking it to program.

• Preview file

  A temporary render generated to improve timeline playback of effects or demanding media.

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