Miniature

Also called: scale model

ELI5

A reduced-scale physical model filmed to represent a larger object, environment or effect.

“The treatment should show the miniature clearly enough for the department to plan it.”

You may encounter “Miniature” 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.

When the words have to travel

Bring the script, brief or half-formed thought. We help find the shape people need to understand.

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Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.