Glossary & Caveats

The shared vocabulary is the toolkit

Live-event production runs on a dense, cross-vertical lexicon, and fluency in it is the price of admission on any bid or call. You need to read a term and instantly know both what it means on the floor and what it implies for the build and the budget: load-in/load-out (strike) frame the day, advance is the pre-show information exchange that makes it work, and the run-of-show (ROS) is the minute-by-minute timeline. Role shorthand is not optional trivia: PM/TD/SM (production manager, technical director, stage manager), A1/A2 (lead and assistant audio), V1 (lead video engineer), and gaffer/best boy/key grip on the film side. Know the words, because a term you can't parse is a cost you can't see.