Cheat - ✔✔ Any trick or shortcut done on set to manipulate the shot
Chroma Key - ✔✔ The name of the process whereby a colored background is
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Cyclorama, Cyc - ✔✔ A solid or fabric backing used as a backdrop — A hard is often coved into the floor
Dailies - ✔✔ The results of the previous days shooting, always checked to make sure the scenes were successfully shot
Grip stand/C-stand - ✔✔ A 3-legged stand with an arm and clamps used to hold all manner of stage elements
Flat - ✔✔ The basic unit of scenery, usually 8' - 10' tall, frames with 1x3 edge and skinned with luan
Flying - ✔✔ Rigging scenery to hang or fly out, either to get it out of the way or minimize floor support
Hero - ✔✔ Any key set or prop, usually related to a lead character, The hero apartment, car, or gun
Hot Set - ✔✔ Any set that is in the process of being shot or held for dailies or negative check
Key Frame - ✔✔ A single wide establishing shot that shows the set and any digital effects to be added in the final composition
Lumber - ✔✔ Main material used to frame scenery
Luan - ✔✔ A smooth grained plywood, usually 1/4" thick, used for flats and all matter of scenery
Plywood - ✔✔ Standard sheet building material
AC, BC, CDX - ✔✔ Grades of finish on plywood. A is smooth, D is not. X is exterior
Medium Density Fiberboard (MDF) - ✔✔ A grainless pressed board with a smooth finish, good for painted surfaces
Trim - ✔✔ A piece of performed mounding used in finish carpentry
Negative Check - ✔✔ The first check of the film shot the day before, done by the lab, to make sure all the work was successfully developed. Not a concern in digital recording
Picture Vehicle - ✔✔ Any vehicle to be used on camera
Raked - ✔✔ Any thing angled to the horizon, in scenery often an inclined floor
Re-shoot - ✔✔ what happens when the negative check is bad or the dailies stink
Scout - ✔✔ The act of going out and looking for or at locations
Second Unit - ✔✔ A second camera and crew shooting additional material for a project, usually not involving the primary actors
Skin, Vaccuform - ✔✔ A plastic or fiberglass sheet that mimics the texture of another material, stone, tree bark, brick, etc.
Special Effects - ✔✔ Effects done during filming
Staff Shop - ✔✔ The studio department where skins are made and sold
Storyboards - ✔✔ A series of drawings or images created in preproduction that indicate the composition of the camera shots to be shed when filming
Translight, Duratrans, Colortrans - ✔✔ A large translucent backing, usually photographic, used on stage to simulate an environment.
Wild - ✔✔ Any scenic unit built to be movable to allow room for camera, crew, and equipment
Wrap - ✔✔ The end of the shooting day or the official end of principal photography
Production Designer - ✔✔ The person in charge of all visual elements of the film. Must interpret the script and directors vision into the look of the film. Oversees Art Director and Set Decorator in the building and decoration of the sets, and is also involved in the coordination of costumes, makeup, and visual effects to assure a coherent style to the film.
Art Director - ✔✔ The head of the art department. Takes design and research provided and oversees the creation of the scenery.
Aspect Ratio - ✔✔ The size of a film frame, usually a ratio of height to width. Academy is 3:4, HD is 9:16, Widescreen is 1:1.85
B Camera - ✔✔ A second camera crew working simultaneously with the main shooting unit
Blue/Green Screen - ✔✔ A backing or painted cyc against which foreground action is shot,allowing the background to be replaced by any digital image.
CGI - ✔✔ Visual effects created in post production.
Chroma key - ✔✔ The name of the process whereby a colored background is "keyed" out and replaced by a digital image.
Cover set - ✔✔ A standing set, usually an interior or studio set, held aside in case bad weather forces a change in schedule.
Cyclorama - ✔✔ A solid or fabric backing used as a backdrop . Often coved into the floor, so there is no hard line where the floor meets the wall.
Grip Stand/C-Stand - ✔✔ A 3 legged stand with an arm and clamps used to hold all manner of stage elements.
Drop, Rag, Backing - ✔✔ Any soft backdrop used as a background, can be pictorial, abstract, or black.
Gimbal - ✔✔ A pivot built into a mirror or window to help control reflections towards the camera.
Oriented Stand Board (OSB) - ✔✔ Composite wood that looks like pressed splinters, used for sub floors and structural elements.
Translight - ✔✔ A large translucent backing, usually photographic, used on stage to simulate an environment.
Visual Effects - ✔✔ Same as CGI, Effects added in post production.
Assistant Art Director - ✔✔ Assists the Art Director and the Set Designer and the Construction Department by researching and providing the necessary information about all the various things needed by each department. Hardware, backings, set lighting, and anything else needed on the set . He is also frequently in charge of the crews working on remote locations.
Set Designer - ✔✔ Does the drawings from which the scenery is built. Integral in the design of the scenery, and helps determine all the details needed by the Construction Department to build the sets.
Art Department Coordinator - ✔✔ Runs the art dept. office. Keeps paperworks and drawings organized and distributed. Finds and oversees outside contractors, and arranges billing and payment for vendors.
Art Department Researcher - ✔✔ Usually only on big projects, finds and coordinates research for the Production Designer, Art Director, and Set Designers.
Storyboard Artist/Production Illustrator - ✔✔ Also usually found only on large scale productions, works with the Production Designer and the Director to create concept sketches and stroy boards.
Art PA - ✔✔ Acts as a runner and a facilitator for eveyone else in the department, will help with research, reproductions of drawings, sourcing materials, and all the moment by moment crisises of production.
Construction Coordinator - ✔✔ Head of the construction Department. Usually owns all the tools and equipment used to build the scenery. Oversees the budget and scheduling and payroll. Interfaces with other departments (Transpo, Set Dec. Production,Locations, etc.) Tells the designer he/she is crazy and the production will never be able to afford your grandiose schemes. Works day and night and spends all your budget
Construction General Foreman - ✔✔ Oversees the ordering of materials and the building of thesets. Hires the propmakers. Will usually do any construction details and material lists. Supervises the crews. [Show Less]