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• Safety data sheet

  A standardized document describing a chemical product’s hazards, composition, controls, handling, storage, and emergency information.

• Safety factor

  The ratio between ultimate strength and permitted working stress or load under defined conditions.

• Safety meeting

  A documented briefing in which relevant hazards, controls, responsibilities, and emergency actions are reviewed with workers.

• Safety meeting plan

  A plan for when hazards, controls, emergency routes, and responsible people will be briefed.

• Safety-net system

  A fall-protection system using installed nets to arrest workers or falling objects within defined limits.

• Sales agent

  A company or representative licensed to sell a screen work’s distribution rights to buyers.

• Sample-rate conversion

  Digital conversion of audio from one sampling frequency to another.

• Sandbag

  A weighted bag placed on stands, cables, or temporary structures to reduce movement and tip risk.

• Sash cord

  Braided cord commonly used for tying textiles, securing lightweight expendables, and other non-life-safety grip tasks.

• Scaffold

  A temporary elevated platform and supporting structure used to support workers, materials, or both.

• Scaffold hoist

  A manual or powered mechanism used to raise or lower a suspended scaffold.

• Scene number

  The locked script identifier connecting scheduled material to slates, reports, sides, and editorial.

• Scene recall

  The act of loading a stored console or control-system state during operation.

• Scene strip

  A single stripboard record summarizing one scene’s number, heading, pages, cast, location, and requirements.

• Scene-referred image data

  Image values related to the light and exposure of the photographed scene rather than a particular display.

• Scenic Artist

  A Scenic Artist creates painted and surface finishes for sets and scenery, including aging, distressing, wood grain, stone, metal, plaster, murals, signs, textures, and matching. They translate Production Design and Art Direction into camera-ready surfaces that look convincing under the project’s lighting and lens choices.

• Scenic Carpenter

  A Scenic Carpenter builds and installs flats, walls, platforms, stairs, doors, windows, backing, molding, scenery, and other structures designed for camera or live presentation. They read drawings, lay out dimensions, cut and assemble materials, create wild or removable elements, brace and repair work, coordinate with adjacent crafts, and balance speed and adaptability with accurate, safe construction.

• Scenic Foreperson

  A Scenic Foreperson leads daily scenic paint and finish work for an assigned crew, turning approved samples, recipes, and schedules into clear tasks, material preparation, access, protection, application, drying, and cleanup. They demonstrate techniques, inspect color and texture, coordinate with construction and adjacent crafts, track progress and supplies, and report changes or quality problems to the Key or Charge Scenic.

• Scenic Painter

  A Scenic Painter applies paint, glaze, texture, aging, faux finish, murals, lettering, distressing, and environmental detail that make newly built scenery appear visually specific and camera-ready. They prepare surfaces, match approved samples and recipes, work at architectural scale, maintain color continuity, protect adjacent work, coordinate drying and access, and complete touch-ups or repairs as lighting and photography reveal new needs.

• Scenic sample

  A physical or photographed finish sample used to approve scenic color, texture, sheen, and technique.

• Schedule day

  A numbered workday in the production schedule used to group scenes, locations, and resources.

• Scissor-lift safety

  Safe operation and positioning controls for a mobile elevating platform that raises vertically on crossed supports.

• Scoop light

  A lensless floodlight with a lamp in a broad ellipsoidal or paraboloidal reflector, producing a wide soft-edged field.

• Scoring Mixer

  A Scoring Mixer records and mixes original music for picture, translating the Composer’s and production’s musical intent into clean, flexible, technically consistent recordings. They plan microphones, preamps, routing, monitoring, synchronization, session layout, recording format, isolation, talkback, backups, and deliverables; capture takes efficiently; and mix or prepare stems that integrate with dialogue and effects.

• Screen credits

  The negotiated and approved identification of contributors displayed in or with a completed production.

• Screen direction

  The apparent left-right direction of looks or movement within the edited frame.

• Screen production grant

  Non-recoupable or conditionally repayable public funding awarded under a screen agency or cultural program.

• Screen test

  A filmed audition or technical test used to assess a performer’s suitability on camera.

• Screenplay

  A written dramatic work organized into scenes, action, dialogue, and production-facing cues.

• Screenwriter

  A Screenwriter writes and revises screenplays intended for filmed production. They turn original ideas or source material into visual scenes, dramatic structure, character action, dialogue, and production-readable pages; prepare treatments and outlines; research the world; solve notes; and track revisions while protecting the difference between authored literary material and later production decisions.

• Screw-pin shackle

  A shackle closed by a threaded removable pin for appropriate temporary connections.

• Scrim

  A partially transparent material used to reduce or reshape light while preserving its direction.

• Scrim set

  A fitted group of wire screens that reduces a conventional fixture’s output without changing beam shape substantially.

• Script breakdown

  The process of tagging cast, props, wardrobe, locations, vehicles, effects, and other requirements in a script.

• Script comparison

  A version-to-version analysis identifying additions, deletions, and changed production requirements.

• Script Consultant

  A Script Consultant evaluates a screenplay or teleplay and gives the writer or producer structured feedback on premise, character, conflict, structure, pacing, tone, dialogue, clarity, audience, and production implications. They identify what the draft currently communicates, distinguish symptoms from underlying story problems, ask useful questions, and propose revision paths without silently rewriting the author’s work or promising commercial success.

• Script Coordinator

  A Script Coordinator controls the official television script as it moves from writers’ room through production. They format and proof pages, track revisions and colors, maintain scene numbers and locked-page conventions, compile changes, verify continuity and character details, distribute authorized drafts securely, and make sure every department receives the same current material.

• Script coverage report

  An evaluative document summarizing a screenplay and assessing craft, audience, production, or acquisition considerations.

• Script day

  A continuity label indicating the story date or relative day on which a scripted scene occurs.

• Script Editor

  A Script Editor helps writers and Producers develop screen material while protecting story continuity, production requirements, and the approved creative direction. They read drafts, identify structural and character issues, consolidate notes, discuss solutions with writers, track revisions and open questions, check consistency across episodes or versions, and communicate changes without confusing editorial support with authorship or final approval.

• Script notes

  Written observations and proposed changes addressing story, character, dialogue, structure, clarity, or production concerns.

• Script polish

  A focused screenplay revision intended to refine dialogue, clarity, tone, pacing, or consistency without wholesale restructuring.

• Script revision

  A controlled change issued after a production script has entered formal distribution.

• Script Supervisor

  A Script Supervisor tracks the filmed story in exact detail so shots can cut together. They monitor dialogue, action, screen direction, eyelines, props, wardrobe, hair, makeup, timing, and coverage while producing the lined script and daily notes that guide the Director, departments, and editorial team.

• Script supervisor notes

  Detailed notes that track script timing, continuity, coverage, and editorial or production questions.

• Scriptment

  A development document combining treatment-style prose with selected scripted scenes or dialogue.

• SDH subtitles

  Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing audiences that include dialogue plus relevant sound and speaker information.

• SDI cable

  A coaxial cable assembly used to carry serial digital video over a specified distance and data rate.

• Seamstress or Tailor

  A production Seamstress or Tailor alters, fits, repairs, constructs, reinforces, and finishes garments so they fit performers, support movement, match the Costume Designer’s intent, and survive repeated use. They interpret fitting notes and patterns, choose appropriate construction methods, preserve duplicates and continuity, work around microphones or action needs, and document changes without exceeding approved design or performer-safety boundaries.

• Season arc

  The planned progression of story and character developments across a season of episodic work.

• Seating bowl

  The fixed or configured tiers and sections of spectator seating within an arena, stadium, or theatre.

• Second Assistant Accountant

  A Second Assistant Accountant processes and tracks assigned production transactions such as invoices, purchase orders, check requests, petty cash, p-cards, vendor records, coding, filing, payment status, and department inquiries. They verify required approvals and backup, enter data accurately, resolve routine discrepancies, maintain organized audit records, and escalate unusual items to the First Assistant or Production Accountant.

• Second Assistant Camera

  A Second Assistant Camera, or 2nd AC, supports the First AC and keeps camera logistics organized. They mark performers, operate and label the slate, manage camera paperwork, move and stage equipment, help with lens and build changes, and coordinate information between camera, production, script supervision, and post.

• Second Assistant Director

  A Second Assistant Director supports the First AD by turning the shooting schedule into clear calls, cast movement, background coordination, and accurate daily paperwork. The 2nd AD often prepares and distributes the call sheet, communicates advance scheduling, and keeps the production office and set aligned.

• Second sticks

  A request to repeat a slate clap when the first mark was unusable.

• Second team

  Stand-ins or doubles who rehearse technical positions while the first team is off camera.

• Second unit

  A separately directed shooting company assigned material outside the first unit’s immediate schedule.

• Second Unit Director

  A Second Unit Director leads a separate crew that photographs material outside the main unit’s immediate schedule, such as action, stunts, inserts, establishing shots, vehicles, plates, or crowd work. They match the principal Director’s story, performance, visual language, and continuity while delivering usable footage safely and efficiently.

• Second-Second Assistant Director

  A Second-Second Assistant Director supports the Second AD and First AD with delegated floor, background, cast, base-camp, and communication work. The role helps keep people moving through the day, relays schedule and safety information, and gives a larger AD department enough coverage to manage several locations or workstreams at once.

• Secondary color correction

  A selective grade isolated by color, luminance, matte, spatial mask, or tracked region.

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