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Industry glossary terms

S

SAG

Screen Actors Guild.

SCALE

Minimum payment for services under union contracts.

SCRIPT

The written form of a screenplay, teleplay, radio or stage play.

SCRIPT SUPERVISOR

The crew member assigned to record all changes or actions as the production proceeds.

SDI

State Disability Insurance.

SECOND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR

Often two or three on a set, they handle checking in the talent, insuring proper paperwork is filed, and distribute script revisions. Actors check in with the 2nd A.D. upon arrival on the set.

SECOND TEAM

The verbal cue for the stand-ins to come to the set and be ready to stand in.

SEGUE

In film or tape editing, a transition from one shot to another.

SET

The immediate location where the scene is being filmed.

SET-UP

Each time the camera changes position.

SFX

Sound effects.

SIDES

Pages or scenes from a script, used in auditions or (if on a film set) those scenes being shot that day.

SIGNATORY

An employer who has agreed to produce under the terms of a union contract.

SLATE

A small chalkboard and clapper device, often electronic, used to mark and identify shots on film for editing; also the process of verbal identification by a performer in a taped audition (e.g., "Slate your name!").

SPEED

A verbal cue that the audio tape is up to speed for recording.

SPIKING THE LENS

Looking directly into the lens during a scene; since it destroys the illusion of realism, actors should never spike the lens unless specifically directed to do so for specific effect.

STAGE RIGHT

To the performer's right side, to the audience's left side. Likewise, STAGE LEFT is to the performer's left, the audience's right. Stage directions are for actors, not audiences, therefore they are always given from the actor's point of view to the audience.

STAND-INS

Extra Performers used as substitutes for featured players, for the purpose of setting lights and rehearsing camera moves; also known as the second team.

STANDARD UNION CONTRACT

The standard format/contract approved by the Unions and offered to performers prior to the job.

STANDARDS & PRACTICES

The network TV censorship departments.

STICKS

Slate or clapboard.

STUDIO

A building, recording room or sound stage which accommodates film or TV production.

STUNT COORDINATOR

The person in charge of designing and supervising the performance of stunts and hazardous activities.

STUNT DOUBLE

A stuntperson who performs stunts for a principal.

STUNTPERSON

A specially trained performer who actually performs stunts.

SUBMISSION

An agent's suggestion to a casting director for a role in a certain production.

SW

A notation on a call sheet that an actor is starting on that day and working on that day.

SWEETENING

In singing/recording, the process of adding additional voices to previously recorded work.

SWF

A notation on a call sheet that an actor is starting, working, and finished on that day.

SYNDICATION

Selling TV programs to individual stations rather than to networks.