Filmclusive Encyclopedia
Pre-production
Film production roles, equipment, workflows, and terms.
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.
Scriptment
A development document combining treatment-style prose with selected scripted scenes or dialogue.
Season arc
The planned progression of story and character developments across a season of episodic work.
Sequel rights
Rights to create later works continuing characters, world, or story from an existing property.
Series bible
A controlled reference describing a series premise, world, characters, format, tone, and ongoing story engine.
Set design
The developed spatial and visual design for scenery constructed or adapted for a production.
Set drawing
A drafted plan, elevation, section, or detail communicating the approved geometry of scenery.
Set-dressing plan
A room- or location-specific plan for furnishing and dressing the environment before shooting.
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.
Shot list
A planned list of camera setups that turns creative intent into a coverage and logistics plan.
Sides
Selected script pages distributed to cast and crew for a particular day or scene.
Sizzle reel
A short promotional edit created to demonstrate a project, concept, talent package, or market proposition.
Sound workflow plan
A document defining production recording, metadata, synchronization, editorial exchange, ADR, mixing, and audio deliverables.
Spec script
A screenplay written without a prior commission or production assignment, usually to be sold or used as a sample.
Story area
A concise prose proposal for an episode or storyline before a detailed outline or script.
Story day
A unit of chronological time within the narrative used to track continuity across scenes.
Story world document
A development reference defining the places, systems, history, and rules of a fictional world.
Storyboard
A sequence of drawings or frames that communicates intended composition, action, and camera movement.
Storyboard animatic
A timed storyboard assembled with temporary sound to preview pacing, coverage, and transitions.
Stripboard
A schedule board that visualizes scenes, company moves, cast, locations, and production-day groupings.
Stripboard color
A color convention used on schedule strips to distinguish interior, exterior, day, night, or other scene attributes.
Studio teacher plan
The schedule and staffing plan for required education and welfare supervision of working minors.
Stunt breakdown
A script-derived record of actions requiring stunt evaluation, coordination, doubles, equipment, rehearsal, or special safety planning.
Sun-path study
An assessment of expected solar direction, height, shadow, and timing at a location and date.
Synchronization license
Permission to combine a musical composition with timed visual images.
Synopsis
A prose summary that presents a story’s principal characters, events, and outcome.
Table read
A group reading of a script by performers and production participants before filming.
Talent hold
A temporary request that a performer keep specified dates available while casting or scheduling is unresolved.
Target audience
The intended primary viewers considered when developing, financing, marketing, rating, and distributing a project.
Tech scout
A department-focused location visit used to verify access, power, sound, safety, camera, and logistics assumptions.
Technical rehearsal
A rehearsal focused on coordinating cues, equipment, movement, effects, and department timing before performance or photography.
Theme
A recurring idea or question explored through a project’s characters, choices, images, and consequences.
Title search
A clearance search for conflicting film, television, business, trademark, or other uses of a proposed title.
Tone
The project’s prevailing emotional attitude and overall manner of presentation.
Trademark clearance
Review and permission work addressing recognizable brands, marks, packaging, or trade dress in a production.
Traffic-management plan
A documented system for separating and directing public, production, pedestrian, and work-vehicle movement.
Transport plan
A coordinated plan for moving people, equipment, vehicles, and materials throughout production.
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.
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.
Underlying rights
Rights in pre-existing material or real-world subject matter on which a screen project depends.
Unit-base plan
A layout and operations plan for trailers, holding, catering, transport, parking, waste, and support services.
Vendor
A person or business that supplies goods, rentals, facilities, or services to a production.
Vendor onboarding
The process of approving a supplier’s identity, tax, insurance, payment, safety, and contract information.
Verbal pitch
A spoken presentation of a project delivered in a meeting, room, call, or recorded setting.
VFX bid
A vendor estimate assigning scope, methodology, labor, schedule, assumptions, and price to visual-effects work.
VFX breakdown
A shot- or scene-level analysis of visual-effects requirements, methods, elements, complexity, and dependencies.
VFX turnover plan
A specification for transferring approved editorial shots, plates, references, metadata, and instructions to visual-effects vendors.
Visual reference board
A curated board of images used to align design, camera, color, wardrobe, or location direction.
Wardrobe plot
A character- and scene-based chart showing the approved costume worn through the production.
Weather day
A scheduled contingency day reserved for work that depends on suitable weather conditions.
Work authorization plan
A plan confirming that cast and crew may lawfully work in every production jurisdiction.
Workers’ compensation
A jurisdiction-specific insurance and benefits system for eligible work-related injury or illness.
Workflow test
An end-to-end trial proving that acquisition material can travel through editorial, finishing, sound, and delivery as planned.
Writer agreement
A contract commissioning or acquiring writing services and defining rights in the resulting material.
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