Filmclusive Encyclopedia
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Film production roles, equipment, workflows, and terms.
Secondary safety
An independent retention method intended to limit a suspended item’s fall if its primary attachment fails.
Selects
Takes, moments, or source clips identified as preferred candidates for an edit or downstream task.
Self-retracting lifeline
A fall-arrest device that pays out and retracts line during movement and locks rapidly during a fall.
Sequel rights
Rights to create later works continuing characters, world, or story from an existing property.
Sequence
An editable ordered arrangement of picture, sound, graphics, and timing in nonlinear editing software.
Sequence timecode
The timecode address assigned along an edited timeline independent of individual source timecodes.
Series bible
A controlled reference describing a series premise, world, characters, format, tone, and ongoing story engine.
Series Creator
A Series Creator originates the core concept, characters, world, and repeatable dramatic engine of a television series. They usually develop the pitch and foundational written material, help establish the show’s creative identity, and may continue as a Writer, Executive Producer, or Showrunner depending on the deal and production structure.
Series Director
A Series Director helps establish and protect the directing language of a television series across episodes. They may direct multiple episodes, guide incoming Episode Directors, align performance and visual choices with the Showrunner, and maintain continuity in tone, blocking, coverage, and production practice.
Service disconnect
A disconnecting means that isolates service-supplied conductors from downstream premises wiring.
Set
A readiness response indicating a performer, prop, effect, or department awaits the action cue.
Set Costumer
A Set Costumer stays with the shooting unit to protect costume continuity and condition during rehearsals and takes. They check garments before camera, make fast adjustments and repairs, manage coats and comfort between takes, photograph continuity, support changes, and communicate with cast, ADs, sound, hair, makeup, and the costume trailer.
Set Decorator
A Set Decorator designs and oversees the objects that make a filmed environment feel inhabited: furniture, window treatments, practical lamps, art, rugs, books, appliances, and other dressing. Working with the Production Designer, they research, budget, source, fabricate, place, and maintain those elements for shooting.
Set design
The developed spatial and visual design for scenery constructed or adapted for a production.
Set Designer
A Set Designer turns approved production-design concepts into precise drawings and digital models that construction, scenic, rigging, lighting, visual effects, and other departments can build and use. They resolve dimensions, materials, elevations, details, movement, camera access, and technical interfaces before fabrication.
Set drawing
A drafted plan, elevation, section, or detail communicating the approved geometry of scenery.
Set Dresser
A Set Dresser physically installs, arranges, secures, protects, moves, restores, and removes the furnishings and decorative objects selected by the Set Decorator. They pick up and unwrap items, rough in and refine placement, hang art and window treatments, manage practical furnishings, photograph continuity, protect hot sets, and return each set and rental item accurately after shooting.
Set etiquette
Shared working practices that protect concentration, safety, communication, and respect on a set.
Set extension
A visual-effects addition expanding a practical environment beyond what was built or photographed.
Set medic
A medically qualified worker engaged to provide the production’s defined on-site medical coverage.
Set Medic
A Set Medic provides qualified first-aid and medical support appropriate to the production, location, crew size, and governing requirements. They establish an accessible aid station, maintain supplies and records, respond to illness or injury, assess and stabilize patients within scope, coordinate emergency services and transport, communicate relevant prevention concerns, and protect medical privacy while remaining ready throughout the workday.
Set strike
The controlled removal of scenery, dressing, equipment, or a completed setup.
Set survey data
Measured positions, dimensions, and reference coordinates documenting a set or location for downstream reconstruction.
Set-dressing plan
A room- or location-specific plan for furnishing and dressing the environment before shooting.
Severe-allergy response plan
A plan for recognizing and responding to anaphylaxis or another serious allergic reaction.
Severe-weather monitoring
Continuous review of credible weather information and site conditions to support timely safety decisions.
SFX Makeup Artist
An SFX Makeup Artist creates and applies physical makeup effects such as prosthetics, wounds, aging, creatures, burns, scars, blood, body effects, and transformation appliances. They design or execute approved effects, mold and fabricate pieces, plan safe application and removal, and reproduce continuity across shooting days.
Shared project
An editorial project organized for concurrent or coordinated access by multiple collaborators.
Shelter in place
An emergency instruction to remain inside a selected protected location rather than evacuate.
Shock approach boundary
A restricted distance around exposed energized parts based on electric-shock hazard.
Shooting draft
The production-authorized script version prepared for breakdown, scheduling, and filming.
Shooting schedule
The ordered plan for capturing scenes within available people, locations, equipment, and time.
Shooting script
A script version annotated with scene numbers, revisions, camera intent, and production notes.
Shopping agreement
A limited agreement allowing a producer or representative to seek financing or buyers for material without owning an option.
Short circuit
An unintended low-impedance electrical connection between conductors at different potentials.
Short end
Unexposed film remaining from a previously opened roll and retained for later use.
Short-term exposure limit
A maximum average exposure permitted over a brief specified interval.
Short-term loudness
A program-loudness measurement calculated over a moving window of several seconds.
Shot
A continuous recorded image between starting and stopping the camera.
Shot list
A planned list of camera setups that turns creative intent into a coverage and logistics plan.
Shotgun microphone
A highly directional interference-tube microphone used to emphasize sound arriving along its axis.
Shoulder rig
A camera support configured to distribute operating weight across the shoulder and hands.
Shout system
A dedicated production communication feed allowing key audio operators to speak directly.
Show call
The time a performer, operator, or crew member is required for the live performance period.
Show caller
The person who gives coordinated live cues to technical and performance departments.
Show file
A saved technical configuration containing cues, patching, presets, scenes, and system settings for a show.
Show programming session
A scheduled period building and refining cues, presets, automation, media, or control logic.
Show relay
An audio or video feed carrying performance and cue context to backstage, dressing, lobby, or operational areas.
Show stop
An authorized halt to performance because continuing would be unsafe or operationally impossible.
Show turnover
The formal handoff of a prepared event system or venue area to the operating show team.
Show-control network
A dedicated or segmented data network carrying time-critical entertainment control and monitoring.
Showrunner
A Showrunner is the senior creative and managerial leader of a scripted television series. Usually working under an Executive Producer credit, they guide story, staffing, casting, production, post-production, budgets, schedules, and communication with the studio or platform so the series maintains one coherent direction.
Showrunner’s Assistant
A Showrunner’s Assistant provides dedicated administrative and information support to the Showrunner across writing, production, post, studio communication, and scheduling. They manage calendars, calls, scripts, notes, meetings, contacts, travel, follow-ups, confidential materials, and competing priorities so the Showrunner can move efficiently among creative and managerial responsibilities.
Shutter angle
A motion-picture exposure setting expressing exposure time as an angular fraction of each frame interval.
Sidefill
A monitor loudspeaker system positioned at the sides of a stage to provide broad-area coverage.
Sides
Selected script pages distributed to cast and crew for a particular day or scene.
Signal splitter
A device that distributes one source signal to multiple isolated or managed destinations.
Single coverage
Coverage concentrating on one performer or subject rather than a shared composition.
Single-phase power
An alternating-current supply using one voltage waveform and its intended conductors.
Single-purchase counterweight system
A counterweight rigging arrangement in which arbor travel approximately matches batten travel.
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