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| Phase in which a screenplay is developed into a packaged script, aka "Development Hell". |
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| The right to make a film during a specific amount of time and for a specific sum. |
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| Major characters, locations, stunts, effects, big scenes, and major sets are decided. |
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| A legal concept that gives a creator of an original work exclusive rights to it. |
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| Intellectual Property: Creations of the mind for which exclusive rights are recognized by the law |
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| NDA (non-disclosure agreement) |
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| is a legal contract between at least two parties that outlines confidential material, knowledge, or information that the parties wish to share with one another for certain purposes, but wish to restrict access to or by third parties. |
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| A document that shows an actor’s interest in appearing in your movie subject to availability. It is an important part of the pre=production package used to raise financing. |
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| A form of securities offering in which an investor purchases part of a business. |
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| A document that outlines how the business will be set up, operate, and make money. Also includes overview of the current money and how business will compete effectively. |
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| Day-to-day procedures of film production during principal photography. |
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| Assists the production manager and director, ensuring the film comes in on schedule, overseeing the day-to-day management of the cast and crew scheduling, equipment, script, and set. |
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| Assistant to the 1st AD and helps carry out task delegated. Responsible for call sheets and letting the crew know the schedules. |
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| The liaison between the studio or producer and the production manager. |
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| The natural sound of a room or location; ambience |
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| Who is giving it? What triggers the giving? What amount are they giving? Who funds unforseen losses and expenditures? |
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| What’s the order & priority for distributions of money? Who is the first to get a return? Is there interest on the monies? How are profits divided? Are the sources of distribution different for different parties…ie ; are they last in with different rules and payout, etc? |
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| Is it a joint control (co-production…another producer? Is it allocated? A party has creative, B party has financial? |
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| Set it up so that you will be willing to walk away. What are you willing to give up? |
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| Issued daily during production, created by the AD, informing cast and crew where they should be for a particular day of shooting. |
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| The early stages of film production preceding principal photography, including casting, budgeting, financing, and finding suitable locations for filming. |
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| A package of individuals to work on a film. The package may include the director, screenplay writer, stars and members of the supporting cast. The package is usually as a whole in that you cannot choose only some elements. Typically done by a talent agency. |
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| a commitment to pay a director or performer made before production commences, and sometimes before all the finance has become unconditional, regardless of whether his or her services are used. |
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| The route by which the producer’s right to use copyright material may be traced from the author to the producer through a “chain” of assignments and transfers. |
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| A sum payable to a writer, performer, director, producer, or someone else connected with a film out of revenues derived from the exploitation of the film, but typically after the deduction of distribution fees and expenses and, usually, after the financiers and the completion guarantor have recovered all of the sums they have advanced towards the cost of production and delivery of the film. |
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| Term denoting portion of a film’s budget, usually including the writer, director, producer, and main cast. |
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| Term denoting portion of a film’s budget excluding all elements that are considered above the line. |
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| A final sum added to the budget for a film to cover unforeseen circumstances, usually 10% of the budgeted costs excluding the completion guarantee fee. |
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| The most favorable terms accorded to any party to a transaction, including that no one will get any better terms or if any improved terms are granted to a third party then the “Favored nation” will be treated equally. |
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| A sum of money, payable under a union, guild or individual agreement, to a performer, musician, writer, composer, director or producer by reference to the m eans by which, or the place in which, the film is exploited. |
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| Social security and, in some cases; pension, health, and welfare payments due to the cast and crew on top of wages shown in the below the line section of the budget. Fringes are often detailed in a separate schedule and summarized in a line in the final section of the budget top sheet |
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| certain US-based companies that own physical locations and facilities for film development, pre-production, production, and post-production. They also have subsidiaries responsible for film production, distribution, and in some cases, exhibition. The most well-known of these are Columbia/Tristar (Sony), Universal, MGM, Paramount, 20th Century Fox, Walt Disney, and Warner Bros. |
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| A film made without the direct financial participation of the Hollywood Studios. |
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| When a project is developed, the person financing the development has an agreed period in which to put the project into production, failing which the projects goes into turnaround. When this happens the producer generally is entitled to acquire the project back from the financier, usually for all or a portion of the sums advanced by the financier. |
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| The stage of physical film production that involves the actual filming of the piece. |
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| The late stages of film production after filming, including editing, adding music, special effects, digital intermediate, and titles |
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