Filmclusive Encyclopedia
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Film production roles, equipment, workflows, and terms.
Three-shot
A composition presenting three principal subjects together within one frame.
Tick prevention
Controls reducing tick contact and prompt disease risk during outdoor work.
TIFF sequence
An ordered series of Tagged Image File Format images representing successive video or film frames.
Tilt shot
A camera rotation upward or downward around a fixed support position.
Tilt-shift lens
A lens that shifts or tilts its optical axis to alter framing, perspective, or the plane of focus.
Time-weighted average
An average exposure calculated across a specified work period, commonly eight hours.
Timecode
A time reference embedded in picture or sound that identifies frames and supports synchronization.
Timecode box
A device that generates or distributes synchronized timecode to cameras and sound equipment.
Timecode slate
An electronic slate displaying timecode while providing a visible and audible synchronization mark.
Timecode-triggered cue
A show-control cue launched or synchronized by an incoming timecode address.
Timeline
The time-based editing interface in which tracks and clips are arranged to build a sequence.
Timeline marker
A time-positioned annotation carrying notes, ranges, labels, cues, or review status.
Title card
A full-frame graphic presenting a title, chapter, location, date, quotation, or other information.
Title search
A clearance search for conflicting film, television, business, trademark, or other uses of a proposed title.
Title-safe area
A conservative image area where essential text and graphics remain visible across displays and framing variations.
Toe board
A low protective barrier at a platform edge intended to reduce objects falling to levels below.
Tone
The project’s prevailing emotional attitude and overall manner of presentation.
Tone generator
A device or built-in function producing a known audio signal for alignment, identification, and troubleshooting.
Toolbox talk
A short, focused safety discussion held close to the task, crew, and time of work.
Top rail
The upper horizontal member of a guardrail system intended to help prevent passage over an edge.
Tormentor
A vertical masking element at either side of a proscenium used to adjust the visible stage opening.
Tour manager
The touring representative coordinating artist travel, schedule, settlements, hospitality, and daily operational decisions.
Tour per diem
A daily allowance paid to touring personnel for meals or incidental expenses under agreed travel terms.
Tow shot
A moving-vehicle shot in which the picture vehicle is towed rather than driven normally in performance.
Track patching
The configuration determining which timeline tracks receive or participate in an edit.
Track targeting
Selection of timeline tracks that receive edits or respond to navigation and commands.
Tracking cue
A cue storing changes while unchanged parameter values continue from earlier cues.
Tracking shot
A shot in which the camera travels with, toward, away from, or around action.
Trademark clearance
Review and permission work addressing recognizable brands, marks, packaging, or trade dress in a production.
Traffic control
A planned system for separating people, vehicles, equipment, and public movement around a production.
Traffic-management plan
A documented system for separating and directing public, production, pedestrian, and work-vehicle movement.
Trailer Editor
A Trailer Editor crafts short-form marketing pieces that communicate a project’s premise, tone, characters, stakes, spectacle, and release message without simply summarizing the full story. They search picture and dialogue, build structure and rhythm, shape music and sound, create or place cards and graphics, manage spoilers and approvals, version for formats and territories, and respond rapidly to audience and campaign notes.
Transcode
The conversion of media from one encoding, container, resolution, or rate to another.
Transport plan
A coordinated plan for moving people, equipment, vehicles, and materials throughout production.
Transportation Captain
A Transportation Captain is the Transportation Coordinator’s senior field deputy, organizing drivers, vehicle assignments, call times, staging, routes, fueling, inspections, parking, trailer placement, and company moves. They translate the daily transport plan into live dispatch decisions, monitor readiness and working conditions, solve road or access problems, and report delays, incidents, or resource needs promptly.
Transportation Coordinator
A Transportation Coordinator leads the production transportation plan for people, equipment, trailers, base camp, picture vehicles, shuttles, parking, fuel, permits, and daily company moves. They estimate needs, hire and schedule qualified drivers, assign vehicles, coordinate routes and hours, track compliance and maintenance, and keep production leadership informed when timing, access, weather, or vehicle availability changes.
Transportation Dispatcher
A production Transportation Dispatcher receives, prioritizes, records, and assigns vehicle and driver requests throughout the day. They track locations, passengers, equipment, routes, estimated arrivals, company moves, parking, fuel, and changes; keep the Captain and Coordinator informed; and maintain a clear communication channel so urgent needs are handled without losing routine assignments or driver accountability.
Trap room
The space below a stage used for traps, lifts, effects, storage, or performer access.
Travel day
A scheduled day principally used to move cast or crew to or from a production location.
Travel movement order
A document giving travelers confirmed itinerary, reporting instructions, transport, lodging, contacts, and allowances.
Traveler curtain
A curtain that opens and closes horizontally along a track, usually from center or one side.
Traveling matte
A matte that changes across frames to follow a moving subject or element.
Treatment
A concise creative document describing a project’s story, tone, visual approach, and intended audience.
Treatment revision
A controlled new version of a prose story treatment responding to creative or production notes.
Tri-level sync
A three-level video timing reference commonly used to synchronize high-definition production equipment.
Trim
An editorial adjustment to the start, end, or relationship of clips around an edit point.
Trim height
The specified vertical position at which a flown batten, truss, scenic item, or curtain stops.
TRS connector
A tip-ring-sleeve phone connector used for balanced mono, unbalanced stereo, or control wiring.
Truck shot
A lateral camera move traveling left or right relative to the subject.
True peak
An estimate of the maximum reconstructed audio-signal level, including peaks that occur between digital samples.
Truss
A structural framework used to support lighting, audio, video, and scenic equipment when properly engineered and rated.
Truss corner loading
Forces introduced near truss junctions, corners, or nonstandard load locations.
Truss pick
A configured attachment that transfers a hoist or support load into entertainment truss.
Tungsten fixture
A hot-filament fixture with a warm native color temperature and predictable dimming behavior.
Turn over
A call used on many UK sets to start camera and sound recording.
Turnaround
The required rest interval between a worker’s release from one work period and next call.
Turnbuckle
An adjustable threaded fitting used to tension compatible rigging or bracing assemblies.
Turtle base
A removable C-stand base that lets the riser separate for transport or low mounting.
Two-shot
A composition designed around two subjects sharing the same frame.
Ultimate strength
The maximum load or stress a component can withstand before failure under test conditions.
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