Industry Terms Defined: Above the title Act Curtain Acting Area Action Ad-Lib AEA AFI AFL-CIO AFM AFTRA AGMA AGVA All-American Look AMPTP Anchor Animation Appropriate energy Apron Arbor Areas Arena Stage Art Director ATA Attitude Audition Auditorium Avail Back Drop Back To One Back-Up Background Actor Background Music Backing Flat Backstage Banjo Bar Barn Door Batten Beam Projector Beam Spread Beamlight Beauty Shot Beginners Best Boy BIO Blacklight Blackout Blacks Blocking Board Book (The) Book Flat Booking Boom Borders Box Office Box Set Break Character Breakaway Breakdown Bump Bury Buyout Call Call Sheet Call Time Call-Board Callback Camera Left/Right Cans Cast Caster Casting Director Cattle Call Catwalk Center Line Center Stage Changes Character objectives Characterization Cheat Check Choreographer Cinema Verite Cinematographer Claims Clapboard Clip Close-Up (CU) Cloth Cold Reading Color Changer Color Frame Come down Commentator Composite Composition Conflict Contact Sheet Continuity Continuity Sketches Copy Corner Cornerblock Costume Plot Counterweight System Craft Services Crane Shot Crawl Credits Cross Cross-Cutting Crossfade CSI Cue Cue Lights Cue Sheet Cue-to-cue Curtain Curtain Call Curtain Line Cut Cut and Hold Cut-out Cutter Cyc Lights Cyclorama D.P. Dailies Dark Theatre DAT Day Player Daytime Drama DBO Dealer Commercial Deck Deep Focus (depth photography) Demo Tape Depth of Field Designer Desk DGA Dialect Dialogue Dim Dimmer Dips Director Discovered Dissolve (lap dissolve) Dolly Shot Double Double Exposure Doubling Downstage Dress Parade Dresser Dressing A Set Drop-Pickup Dry Dry Tech DSL DSR Dubbing (lip sync) Dupe Dutchman Editing Editor (cutter) Effects Spot Electrician Ellipsoidal Reflector Spotlight (ERS) Emotion Memory Employer of Record (EOR) Endowments Escape Stairs Established Executive Producer Ext. (Exterior) Extra Fade False Proscenium Fast Motion Field Rep Fight Director Fill Light Film Stock Filters Fine Cut Fire Curtain First Electric First Team Fish-Eye Five Out Of Seven Fixed Cycle Flash Forward Flash-pot Flashframe Flat Flip Flipper Flood Floor Pocket Fly Fly Gallery Flyman Focal Length Focus Focus-Through (racking) FoH Follow-spot Footlights Forced Call Foreign Replay Fourth Wall Frame Franchised Agent French Scene Fresnel Front Elevation FX G-clamp Gaffer Gate Gauze Gel Geste Ghost Light Given Circumstances Glow Tape Go Up Gobo Gofer Golden Time Green Room Grid Grip Ground Cloth Ground Plan Groundrow Half (The) Hand Model Hand Props Hand-off Hanging Head Shot Hiatus High-Angle Shot High-Key Hold (on Hold) Holding Fee Honey Wagon Hot Set Hot Spot House House Lights House Manager House Tabs IATSE In Time Industrial Inserts Instrument Instrument Schedule Int. (Interior) Intercutting Iris Iron Jack Jog Jump Cut Key Light Keystone Ladders Lamp Lantern Lap Dissolve Left Legs Leko Library Shot (stock shot) Lift Light Board Light Plot Lighting Designer Lighting Tree Lime Line level Lines Lip Sync Living in the Moment Load-in/out Local Music Location Long Lens Loop Film Looping LORT Low-Angle Shot Low-Key LX M.O.W. Mark Maroon Mask Mask Masking Match Cut Matte Shot Metteur-En-Scene Mic Mise-En-Scene Mix Mixer Monologue Montage MOS Moviola Mr Sands Multiplex Musical Director Muslin Nabet Negative Image Neorealism New Wave (Nouvelle vague) Night Premium Nonsynchronous Sound Notes Number 1 Bar Objective Camera Obstacle Off Book Off-Camera (OC or OS) On A Bell On Book OP Open Call Open White Optical Printer Out Clause Out Time Out-Take Overdubbing P&G PA Pace Pan Pantomime Paper Tech Par Can Parallel Editing Patch Patch Panel Pay or Play Pebble Convex Per Diem Perch Periaktoi Perspective Phantom Power Phono Plug Photo Double Pick Up Pilot Pin Rail Pin Spot Pit Pixilation Places Plaster Line Plot Practical Preppy Type Preset Preview Prime Time Principals Print Prism Convex Process Shot Producer Profile Prompt Prompt (Side) Prompt Copy Prompt Script Prompter Prop Table Properties Property Master Props Proscenium Pyropot Pyrotechnics Quick Change Quick Change Booth Racking Rake Reaction Shot Read-Through Rear Elevation Rehearsal Release Reprise Rerun Residual Resume Reverse Angle Shot Revolve Rewrite Rig Rigging Right Rolling Rostrum Run Run-Through Running/Reoccurring Part Running Crew Running Order Rushes Safety Curtain SAG Scale Scale +10 Scenario or Scene Scene Breakdown Scene Dock Scene Shift Screen Test Scrim Script Script Supervisor Segue Sense Memory Sequence Session Fee Set Set Dressing SFX Shooting Side Sight-And-Sound Sightlines Single Card Sit Com Skycloth Slate Slip Stage Slow Motion Soap Soft Focus Soundtrack Special Spike Spike Mark Spill Spot Spotlight Stage Brace Stage Directions Stage Left Stage Manager Stage Right Stage Screw Stand-In/Second Team State Sticks Still Stock Shot Storyboard Strike Striplights Strobe Studio Studio Teacher Stunt Coordinator Stunt Double Subjective Camera Submission Super Objective Superimposition Swatch Sweetening Swish Pan Synchronous Sound Syndication Tab Dressing Tabs Taft-Hartley Act Tag Take Take 5 Technical Rehearsal Telephoto Lens Teleprompter Thrust Tilt Shot Tracking Shot Trades Trailer Trap Traveler Trim Truck Trucking Shot Turntable Two Shot Typecasting Understudy Unit Objective Unit of Action Unit Set Upstage USL USR Velours Voice-Over Walk-On Walla Walla Wardrobe Wardrobe Master Wash Light Way WGA Wide-Angle Lens Wild Spot Wild Track Wings Wipe Work Call Work Lights Working Drawings Wrap XLR Yarn Zed Card Zoom Freeze Zoom Shot