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Scene
A part of a play, movie or TV show, that is a part of the whole story. Scenes change as to location and time.
Script
An original piece written, in order to be produced as a television series or a movie film.
Sensibility Memory
An acting method where the actor learns to reconstruct the feelings and emotions from his private life, in order to understand and empathies with the character he is portraying.
Shoot
A bit that is photographed in sequence between 'cut' and 'cut' in a movie or TV program.
Show biz (show business)
The world of entertainment in general: television, stage, cinema, music, fashion and advertising, including all that goes on behind the scenes and on camera.
Single
A disk containing one song. Radio stations don't use the albums that are sold by stores, but rather disks that only have one song on them.
Single-Cam
The style of filming,cinema and television, that uses one camera and creates results that seem as if a number of angles have been filmed at once, by filming each angle separately and consequently editing the shots. Single cam is specially common in cinematic photography.
Sitcom/situation comedy
A humorous narrative genre, usually seen on TV (originally from the radio). Usually such a series has a continuous story line and a specific group of characters.
Sketch comedy
Consists of short humorous bits for the stage, screen or radio. ranging from one to ten minutes in length, non-continuous narratives containing different characters.
Soap Opera
Daily television series that follows a plot concerning a certain group of people. Those stories are melodramatic and romantic in general. The genre is originally from radio broadcasts. They can be seen at various times during the day, mostly during the afternoon. The name comes from the original advertising campaigns that would accompany those series – cleaning products, since most of the viewers are housewives.
Sound Card
The computer add-on that is responsible for sound input and output. Microphones, instrumentals and speakers can all be attached through the computer.
Sound editing program
The software that enables sound arrangements.
Sound technician
The person responsible for the professional, technical side of recording, including all the equipment in the studio such as microphones, mix, speakers, etc.
Sound track
The musical accompaniment of movies, TV shows and video games.
Speaker Monitor
This speaker is meant to amplify sound to an exact level where any flaw can be identified. This in contrast to speakers that are meant for listening to music and 'fixing' it up a bit.
Stage
The area that the actors perform a standard theater production upon.
Stage fright
Anxiety when performing before an audience. This is manifested by a feeling of fear and pressure usually includes physical symptoms such as nausea, dizziness, increased heart beat, dryness of the mouth, shaking and perspiration.
Stand-up
A comical genre of the stage or television, where the comic approaches the audience directly focusing on humorous stories and jokes.
Stereotype
Generalities associated with character traits and a style or look belonging to a particular faction of the population. Casting according to type-cast is based on stereotypes.
Street theater
Theater productions and bits of acting that are shown on the street, either in the middle of a regular day on a regular street, or in the framework of festivals and different occasions.
Stylist
A person whose specialty is combining clothing with accessories to achieve the desired effect. The work is done on the shooting set, for private individuals, etc.
Sub-text
The actual meaning between the lines. Part of the actor's work is to discover what is really going on with the character he is portraying, apart from what is actually said.
