Props, graphics & clearance · Core

Prop master

Also called: property master

ELI5

The department head responsible for sourcing, making, controlling and maintaining props used by performers or action.

“We should involve the prop master before we lock the plan.”

You may encounter “Prop master” 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.

Sources & evidence · 3

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