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Entertainment Industry Glossary



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Layout:
A person responsible for working out the action before filming begins, including where the characters should be, and the camera angles.

Lead Role:
The most important character in a movie, often distinguished by gender or other easily recognizable feature or features.

Leadman:
Member of the art department who is in charge of swing gangs and-or set dressers and reports to the set decorator.

Legs:
When referring to a movie, continuing to return large box-office figures.

Lens Mount:
A mechanism used to attach a lens to a camera.

Letterboxing:
As the aspect ratio of movies are rarely the same as the aspect ratio of a television screen. When showing movies on TV it is necessary sometimes to compress the height of the image to make viewing the original frame of the film possible.

Lighting:
Most productions use artificial lighting when filming for various technical and artistic reasons, both on location or on a set.

Lighting Crew:
group of technicians who install, operate, and maintain lighting.

Line Producer:
A producer who is responsible for managing every person and issue during the making of a film.

Lined Script:
A copy of the shooting script which is prepared by the script supervisor during production to indicate, via notations and vertical lines drawn directly onto the script pages, exactly what coverage has been shot.

Live Area:
A camera's viewfinder actually shows (and records on film stock) a greater area of the scene than will appear in the final product.

Location Filming:
Filming which occurs at a place not constructed specifically for the production.

Location Manager:
A person who manages various aspects of filming on location, such as arranging with authorities for permission to shoot in specific places.

Location mixer:
A sound mixer responsible for mixing sounds recorded on location.

Location Scout:
A person who looks for suitable locations for filming.

Low Band:
The low band channels are 2-6. They have a frequency range of 54-88 MHz.

Lyrics:
The words sung in a song; also refers to their writer.

NOTE: These definitions are compiled from multiple sources, and can not be thoroughly checked for accuracy. This glossary is only intended to assist all who use it and is not posted here for the profit of MoviePartners, Inc.
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