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• Primary color correction

  A color adjustment affecting the image broadly, such as overall exposure, balance, contrast, or saturation.

• Prime lens

  A lens with one fixed focal length, often chosen for its speed, rendering, or compact design.

• Principal photography

  The primary scheduled period in which a production records its main scripted picture and sound.

• Print that take

  A photochemical-era request to flag a take for laboratory printing and editorial attention.

• Printmaster

  The approved final program mix from which exhibition or distribution audio deliverables are derived.

• Privacy review

  A legal and production assessment of personal information, private facts, consent, and data handling.

• Probe lens

  A long, narrow optical system used to place the front element in confined or miniature environments.

• Process shot

  A shot combining live action with a background or environmental illusion, historically through projection or compositing.

• Process-trailer safety

  Controls for filming performers in or on a picture vehicle carried or towed by a specialized moving platform.

• Producer

  A Producer initiates, develops, assembles, and steers a film or television project from concept through delivery. Depending on the credit, they may secure rights and financing, hire key creative leaders, shape scripts and casting, oversee budget and schedule, solve major production problems, review cuts, and remain accountable to partners and distributors.

• Producer fee

  Compensation budgeted or contracted for a producer’s specified services and production responsibilities.

• Producer offset

  An Australian refundable tax offset for eligible expenditure on qualifying screen productions.

• Product placement

  The planned inclusion of a branded product or service within screen content under agreed creative and commercial terms.

• Production Accountant

  A Production Accountant leads the accounting office that records, analyzes, controls, and reports the financial activity of a film or television production. They establish systems and controls, supervise payroll and accounts payable, maintain the general ledger, reconcile cash and cards, prepare cost reports and forecasts, support audits and tax incentives, and advise the Producer, Line Producer, UPM, and studio on current spending.

• Production board

  A visual planning surface for tracking scenes, days, locations, cast, and department constraints.

• Production brief

  A shared summary of objectives, scope, constraints, owners, schedule, and approvals for a production.

• Production budget

  A structured estimate and control plan for the costs required to complete and deliver a project.

• Production calendar

  A date-based overview of preparation, shooting, post-production, delivery, and contractual milestones.

• Production Caterer

  A Production Caterer plans, prepares, transports, serves, and clears scheduled meals for cast and crew while accounting for headcount, call times, dietary requirements, food safety, location access, weather, and turnaround. They coordinate menus and service windows with Production, maintain safe temperatures and sanitation, replenish meals efficiently, document changes, and adapt when shooting schedules move unexpectedly.

• Production contingency

  A budget reserve for eligible unforeseen costs rather than known but omitted work.

• Production Coordinator

  A Production Coordinator runs the information and logistics hub of the production office. They organize documents, vendors, travel, crew communication, orders, calendars, and approvals so departments receive what they need and production management can keep prep, shooting, and wrap moving.

• Production Designer

  A Production Designer creates and leads the physical visual world of a production. Working from story and the Director’s intent, they define environments, sets, locations, palette, texture, graphics, and visual references, then guide the Art Director and related departments as those ideas become buildable, dressable, photographable spaces.

• Production dialogue

  Dialogue recorded during photography and carried into post as the primary performance source.

• Production earpiece

  A low-profile personal transducer used to hear cues, program, or communications.

• Production insurance

  Insurance coverage arranged for the people, property, liabilities, and risks of a screen production.

• Production intercom

  A wired or wireless communication system that links departments and operators during a live event.

• Production investment agreement

  The principal contract stating a screen investor’s contribution, rights, approvals, recoupment, and delivery conditions.

• Production Manager

  A Production Manager turns the production plan into daily operations. They coordinate budgets, schedules, crew, vendors, locations, transportation, equipment, travel, safety, and approvals so each department can do its work within the project’s time, cost, and logistical limits.

• Production overhead

  A budgeted allowance for approved general production-company costs not charged as direct line items.

• Production Plasterer

  A Production Plasterer mixes, molds, casts, applies, carves, patches, textures, reinforces, and finishes plaster and related compounds for scenery, architectural detail, molds, breakaways, and sculptural elements. They follow approved dimensions and samples, control mix and cure behavior, handle molds and heavy pieces safely, coordinate installation and scenic finish, and repair work through shooting and strike.

• Production rebate

  A public incentive reimbursing eligible production expenditure under a jurisdiction’s rules.

• Production rider

  A contract attachment describing technical, staffing, venue, schedule, safety, and logistical event requirements.

• Production Runner

  A Production Runner completes authorized pickups, deliveries, errands, moves, copies, supply tasks, and practical support that keep a production office, set, unit, or post team operating. They confirm instructions and custody, plan safe routes, communicate delays, protect confidential or valuable materials, retain receipts, and hand items directly to the correct person rather than improvising purchases or access.

• Production safety bulletin

  Industry labor-management guidance addressing a recurring motion-picture or television production hazard.

• Production Sound Mixer

  A Production Sound Mixer leads the on-set sound department and records the production dialogue and other usable sound for each take. They choose microphones and recording strategy, mix and isolate tracks, manage wireless and timecode, monitor quality, solve noise problems, supervise the Boom Operator and Utility, and deliver organized sound files and reports to post.

• Production Supervisor

  A Production Supervisor monitors and coordinates physical-production operations under the Line Producer or senior production leadership. They track schedules, department needs, vendors, labor, travel, reports, and cost-sensitive logistics, often bridging high-level planning with Production Managers and office teams.

• Production Sustainability Manager

  A Production Sustainability Manager develops and coordinates practical ways to reduce a project’s environmental impact across energy, fuel, transport, materials, construction, food, water, waste, travel, purchasing, and disposal. They establish goals and measurement, train departments, source lower-impact options, track data and vendors, solve implementation barriers, report results accurately, and avoid environmental claims that the production cannot substantiate.

• Production Tailor

  A Production Tailor fits, alters, constructs, repairs, and finishes structured garments such as suits, coats, uniforms, trousers, and period clothing for screen performers. They work from patterns, measurements, fitting notes, and design reference; shape garments for movement and silhouette; preserve matching pieces and continuity; and complete precise hand and machine work within demanding costume schedules.

• Profile shot

  A camera angle showing a subject primarily from the side.

• Program bus

  The switcher path representing the video currently sent to the designated live output.

• Program monitor

  An editing viewer that displays the current output of the active sequence or timeline.

• Project format

  The planned form and technical or editorial structure of a screen project.

• Project locking

  A collaboration control preventing conflicting users from modifying the same project state simultaneously.

• Projection mapping

  The warping and placement of imagery onto shaped architecture, scenery, or objects.

• Projection screen

  A purpose-built surface receiving projected images with defined size, gain, color, and viewing behavior.

• Projector lens

  An optical assembly determining projected image size, throw, focus, shift, and brightness distribution.

• Projector lens shift

  Optical movement of a projected image using the lens while limiting geometric distortion.

• Proof load

  A specified test load applied to demonstrate that equipment withstands a defined level without unacceptable damage.

• Proof of concept

  A limited production demonstrating that a creative, technical, or audience proposition can work.

• Prop Buyer

  A Prop Buyer researches, locates, negotiates, purchases, rents, orders, collects, and returns objects required by the Prop Master’s breakdown. They compare period, design, function, quantity, clearance, lead time, condition, duplication, budget, and delivery needs; maintain approvals and receipts; and solve substitutions quickly when a chosen item is unavailable or unsuitable for camera.

• Prop Designer

  A Prop Designer develops the visual and functional design of story-specific hand props, practical objects, devices, documents, weapons, furniture, or hero pieces that cannot simply be rented or purchased. They research period and character, produce drawings and specifications, select materials and mechanisms, coordinate fabrication and graphics, test scale and action, and obtain approval before multiples or final finishes are made.

• Prop Fabricator

  A Prop Fabricator builds, modifies, duplicates, finishes, repairs, and tests custom objects for performers and camera. Working from drawings, reference, scans, or prototypes, they choose materials and methods that satisfy appearance, scale, weight, durability, function, safety, repeatability, and schedule, then document construction and create versions suited to hero, stunt, breakaway, or background use.

• Prop list

  A scene-linked inventory of scripted and added objects handled by performers or required for action.

• Prop Maker

  A Prop Maker fabricates custom objects and practical pieces from drawings, references, prototypes, or verbal direction using appropriate materials and processes. They measure, model, cut, machine, sculpt, mold, cast, assemble, wire, finish, repair, and duplicate props; test fit and function; communicate limitations; and deliver durable, safe, camera-ready work that matches approved design and production deadlines.

• Prop Master

  A Prop Master leads the department responsible for objects performers handle or that function as action props. They break down scripts, research and design needs, buy, rent, fabricate, modify, clear, track, maintain, duplicate, preset, and strike props; coordinate continuity and safe use; and communicate closely with the Director, Production Designer, Set Decorator, actors, stunts, effects, costume, and camera.

• Propane safety

  Controls for storing, connecting, using, and transporting liquefied petroleum gas in production environments.

• Props PA

  A Props PA supports property-department logistics by organizing shelves and kits, labeling and photographing items, preparing paperwork, making approved pickups and returns, cleaning and packing props, tracking receipts, and moving equipment under supervision. They protect hero pieces and chain of custody, follow handling instructions, and never issue, modify, purchase, or operate restricted items without explicit authorization.

• Proscenium

  The architectural opening separating an audience chamber from the stage area in many theatres.

• Prosthetic appliance

  A fabricated piece applied to a performer to alter anatomy, age, injury, or character appearance.

• Prosthetic test

  A planned application and camera test of prosthetic appliances, materials, adhesion, color, movement, and removal.

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