Set lingo for the clueless writer
Craig has a very good post about all the special vocabulary used on film sets, much of which is bewildering when you first encounter it. Read it here.
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November 28th, 2005 at 3:33 pm
If anyone says “Roundy-round” in context around me, I’m going to punch them very hard in the face. Fact is I won’t regret it either.