second unit

English

Noun

second unit (plural second units)

  1. (cinematography) A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.
    • 2024 March 5, Marina Hyde, “It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian‎[1], London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 October 2026:
      It is the apotheosis of what we in modern sport are obliged to call “plotlines”, and if Leni Riefenstahl were still alive, I imagine she’d be shooting second unit on it.
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