Film terms

When you’re part of a stage crew, basic black clothing is the common, required uniform. This allows a crew person to disappear into the darkness backstage or be less obvious on a set. This specific style of dress can mean a black long-sleeved shirt, black pants (no jeans), and black shoes (tennis shoes or boots, no sandals).

A request to hold time in a person’s calendar for work that is not yet confirmed. You may hear, “Pencil it in,” meaning it could be erased, the job is tentative.

The term is used to let others know when the production is finished for the day, the equipment is packed, and everyone is in their cars, driving away (and their taillights can be seen). Insider lingo.

Refers to when one or more persons get together with a camera, with or without audio, with or without talent, props, or other resources, to film any subject for a project.

Everyone is done shooting for the day and begins packing up.  The day is not done until Taillights.

Television commercial. A short advertisement played during a break on a commercial TV channel.

See – 4K & 8K – We shoot 4k where possible to future-proof client content.

This is a type of business insurance that provides benefits to employees who suffer work-related.

On larger production there can be a variety of different types of wranglers – vehicle wranglers, animal wranglers, child wranglers – it just depends on what the script calls for. In general, a wrangler is someone who’s responsible for people or things that can’t be responsible for themselves, such as wild animals, small children, and inanimate (but sometimes expensive) objects.