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Entertainment Law Terms and Definitions

 
 

Talent
Primarily refers to actors used in advertising. Can also refer to voice performers, musicians, etc.

Talent Agency
Group engaged in the employment and payment of actors, voice performers, and musicians etc. used in advertising.

Usage Limitations
Restrictions on the placement of a commercial (e.g., PSA use only).

Arbitron
A broadcast rating service for television and radio that uses both a viewer diary method and an electronic recording and tabulating system to measure audience size and characteristics.

Use Fees
In paid broadcast advertising, the fees paid to performers used in television commercials or radio spots. The fee is based on the number of airplays and the number and size of media markets in which the advertisement will air. Use fees are paid in addition to holding fees.

Kill Date
The expiration date of advertising materials. Kill dates notify media outlets that an advertisement should not be broadcast or placed after that date.

Proof
A copy of an advertisement as it will appear once produced or printed.

Camera Ready
An ad, art, copy text or graphic ready for inclusion in publications.

Advertising
Delivery of a persuasive message about a product, service, or idea to a large group of people at a single time through the use of mass media.

Agent
A representative of talent, petitioning, on their behalf, for work within the filmmaking community. Agents, by law, have the right to both solicit employment and negotiate terms for the artists they represent. Not to be confused with Manager.

 

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Treatment is one of the starting blocks in the development process
The treatment takes the outline a step further, adding depth to character and story by filling in missing blanks. The treatment's main purpose is to tell the complete story before setting it in script form. Most are written in prose and range from ten to twenty pages. The treatment is the best place to hammer out initial story and character problems. Unless a script is sold on spec, most buyers require a treatment (or very detailed) outline from its writers before commencement of the actual screenplay. If financed independently, the treatment's often a part of the initial fundraising package.

 


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Bleed

Definition:
Printing to the edge of the page, leaving no margin.

Financier

Definition:
The financier is a non-developing financial provider for a film. Simply, financiers are usually money sources looking to invest in complete, packaged scripts. Although they have the ability to bring a significant amount of a movie's budget, financiers are often money people looking at the bottom line - does the project have marketable elements already in place? Unlike most developing studios, these money sources move from script to screen quickly, however, most of the initial footwork must already have been done.

Media Plan or Media Buy Plan

Definition:
A part of the communications plan that details how various media will be employed. Identifies the specific schedule of paid placements that have been negotiated for an ad or collection of ads, including the times and programs during which television and radio ads will run, the locations and sizes of billboards that will be placed, the publications and placement within those publications in which print ads will run, etc.

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