VIDEO VILLAGE

On-set, the bank of monitors where a director watches what is being filmed. Generally, the script supervisor , director of photography and producers are also huddled around video village.

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A character’s entry into a scene. “The scene is really wonky up until Chandler’s entrance.»

MOTIVATED

When a character’s dialogue or action makes sense based on the information that preceded it. «Monica’s tirade about the dish drainer doesn’t seem properly motivated.»

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ONE-HOUR

A television term describing a dramatic series that lasts for one-hour (e.g. ER, The West Wing, The Sopranos).

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EIGHTH

A unit of a written page, used for production. Script pages are broken down into “eighths of a page,» approximately one vertical inch of text. A scene might be listed as 1 1/8th long, which means one page plus one-eighth of the next.

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