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Props, graphics & clearance · Working

Breakaway prop

Also called: breakaway

ELI5

A prop or set element engineered to break safely and predictably during action.

Used in conversation

“Prepare the breakaway prop for the next design review.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Breakaway prop” in production design, locations, costume & hmu conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Explains how spaces, objects, clothes, hair and make-up create the physical world.

Connected terms

  • PropBreakaway prop is a narrower kind of Prop.
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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.