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Production glossary

The words a production runs on, defined plainly, with where each one shows up in Opticom.

Call sheet: The one-page plan a crew receives before a shoot: call times, location and parking, scenes or segments, who is needed when, and safety notes. In Opticom, each confirmed production’s workspace carries its call sheet.
Run of show: The minute-by-minute order of a live event: doors, segments, performers, transitions and hard outs. The director calls cameras and graphics from it.
Load-in: The time and process of bringing equipment into a venue and setting it up before rehearsal or doors.
Stripboard: A production schedule laid out as one strip per scene, grouped and reordered by location, cast and time of day so a shoot runs in the most efficient order rather than story order.
Script breakdown: Reading a script scene by scene and listing everything each scene needs: cast, extras, props, wardrobe, locations, vehicles, effects. The breakdown feeds the stripboard and the budget.
Shooting schedule: The day-by-day plan of which scenes are filmed when and where, built from the stripboard.
Shot list: The list of every shot planned for a scene, with framing, lens and movement, so the director and camera team agree before the day.
Coverage: The set of angles shot for a scene (wide, mediums, close-ups, inserts) that gives the editor choices.
Take: One continuous recording of a shot. Takes are numbered and logged so the editor can find the chosen performance.
B-roll: Supporting footage cut over interviews or narration: hands at work, the room, the street, details.
Dailies: The footage shot each day, synced and shared so the director and producers can review it, usually before the next day’s shoot.
Picture lock: The point in post where the edit is final, so sound, color and visual effects can finish against a cut that will not change.
Color grade: Adjusting the color and contrast of the locked edit for a consistent look and the delivery format.
Sound mix: Balancing dialogue, music and effects into the final soundtrack for each delivery format.
Deliverables: Everything a production hands over at the end: masters, trailers, vertical cuts, captions, artwork. In Opticom each deliverable is tracked to approval.
Revision round: One pass of client notes and the edit that answers them. Packages state how many rounds are included; Daylight and Series Room include two.
Master: The finished, highest-quality file of a work, prepared for a destination, such as a festival master or a streaming master.
Treatment: A short prose description of a film’s story, tone and look, written before or alongside the script. Silver Screen projects are quoted from the treatment.
Bonded cellular: Combining several mobile data connections into one so a live stream stays up when any single network drops.
SRT: Secure Reliable Transport, an open protocol for sending live video over the public internet with error correction. Take the Feed ingests a venue’s cameras over SRT or NDI.
NDI: Network Device Interface, a protocol for sending video between devices on a local network, used to pull a venue’s existing cameras into a production.
Simulcast: Streaming the same live event to more than one destination at once, such as Opticom plus YouTube or a client’s own channels.
Pay-per-view: A live or premiere stream sold as a one-off pass rather than included in a subscription. On Opticom, passes are sold through Greenway.
Replay window: How long a live stream stays watchable after it ends. Opticom live rooms include a 72-hour replay; Greenway online passes carry their own replay window.
Premiere window: The period when a new work is featured at launch, for example a scheduled first showing, a live chat around it, or a ticketed screening.
Vertical cut: A 9:16 edit of a piece for phone-first platforms, usually shorter and reframed rather than simply cropped.