Filmclusive Encyclopedia
Pre-production
Film production roles, equipment, workflows, and terms.
Hero prop plan
A plan for a featured prop requiring close visual detail, performance function, duplicates, or special handling.
Hold day
A non-shooting day on which a person, location, or resource remains reserved for the production.
Holdback period
A contractual restriction delaying one form of exploitation to protect another license or release window.
Holding deal
An agreement paying a performer or creator to remain available or exclusive during a defined period.
Interparty agreement
A contract coordinating priority, security, notices, and remedies among a production’s financiers and key counterparties.
Intimacy plan
A consent-centered plan for choreographing and filming intimacy, nudity, or simulated sex.
Lens plan
A pre-production record of intended focal lengths, lens families, filtration, and coverage needs.
Lens test
A controlled test comparing lens rendering, mechanics, coverage, focus, distortion, flare, or consistency.
License term
The defined duration for which licensed rights may be exercised.
Life-rights agreement
An agreement governing cooperation, access, releases, and authorized materials connected with portraying a real person’s life.
Lighting plan
A drawing or document specifying fixture positions, circuits, control, rigging, color, and intended focus.
Location agreement
A contract granting production access and defined filming rights for a particular property.
Location availability window
The confirmed dates and hours during which a location may be accessed, prepared, filmed, and restored.
Location library
A searchable collection of location photographs, details, contacts, restrictions, and availability information.
Location license
A contract granting production access and recording rights at a property under defined conditions.
Location noise survey
A timed assessment of ambient and intermittent sounds that may affect recording, communication, or neighbors.
Location permit
Authorization from a relevant owner or authority to film at a location under stated conditions.
Location photo survey
A systematic photographic record of a potential location’s creative views, access, services, and existing condition.
Location release
Written permission to photograph and use the recognizable appearance of a location under stated terms.
Location scouting
The search and evaluation process for places that could satisfy a production’s creative and practical needs.
Locked script
A production script whose scene numbering is frozen so later revisions do not renumber existing scenes.
Logline
A brief statement of a project’s protagonist, goal, conflict, and distinctive premise.
Lookbook
A curated visual reference that aligns departments on color, texture, composition, wardrobe, and production design.
Make-up test
A camera-facing trial of hair, cosmetic, prosthetic, or character treatments before filming.
Marketplace attachment
A documented relationship with a distributor, broadcaster, platform, or sales agent supporting project viability.
Marketplace contributor
A distributor, broadcaster, platform, sales agent, or similar market participant contributing project finance or value.
Master-use license
Permission to use a particular recorded performance of music in an audiovisual work.
Material sample
A representative piece of proposed fabric, surface, finish, hardware, or construction material.
Materials release
Written permission to photograph, reproduce, adapt, or distribute specified artwork, documents, footage, or other material.
Minimum guarantee
A guaranteed advance payable by a distributor or sales agent against future exploitation receipts.
Minor work permit
A jurisdiction-specific authorization required for eligible minors to work in entertainment.
Mood reel
A short reference edit conveying atmosphere, rhythm, texture, color, or emotional direction.
Movement order
A detailed instruction sheet for a production move, travel day, or unit relocation.
Music clearance
The process of securing and documenting rights needed to use music in a production and its distribution.
Neighborhood notification
Advance communication informing affected residents or businesses about permitted filming activity and contacts.
Net receipts
Receipts remaining after the deductions permitted by the governing distribution or participation agreement.
Notes call
A scheduled discussion in which stakeholders clarify and prioritize feedback on creative material.
Nudity rider
A negotiated written addendum specifying approved nudity or simulated-sex content and working conditions.
Offer only
A casting status indicating that a performer is being approached without a conventional audition requirement.
Official co-production
A production certified under a government treaty or arrangement so participating countries recognize qualifying national status.
Omitted scene
A locked-script scene retained by number but marked as removed so downstream references do not shift.
One-liner
A compact scene-by-scene schedule line used to summarize script requirements for planning.
Option agreement
A contract granting an exclusive limited period to acquire specified underlying screen rights on defined terms.
Outline
A structured scene-by-scene or sequence-level plan for a proposed screenplay or episode.
Overhead diagram
A top-down schematic showing planned camera, performer, lighting, or equipment positions.
Page eighth
A scheduling convention dividing a script page into eighths to estimate scene length.
Page-one rewrite
An extensive rewrite that substantially reconceives a screenplay rather than revising isolated pages.
Paint sample
A labeled application of proposed paint color and finish on a representative material.
Parking map
A location drawing identifying approved parking, truck positions, loading, shuttles, restrictions, and emergency access.
Parking plan
A mapped allocation of crew, cast, trucks, working vehicles, visitors, and accessible parking.
Pay or play
A negotiated compensation commitment that may remain payable even if the performer’s services are not used.
Performer agreement
A contract engaging a performer and setting compensation, services, usage rights, credit, and conditions.
Permit packet
The collection of location permits, traffic plans, insurance, site rules, and supporting approvals.
Petty cash
Production money issued for small authorized expenses that are impractical to process through normal purchasing.
Petty-cash float
A fixed advance issued to a crew member or department to cover approved small purchases.
Pilot script
A screenplay for an opening episode intended to establish an episodic series and its repeatable engine.
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.
Planned running time
The target duration of a completed project, episode, act, or segment.
Post-production schedule
A dependency-based calendar for editorial, sound, music, visual effects, color, approvals, mastering, and delivery.
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