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Pick-up

Also called pickup, pick up

A pick-up is a short piece of a scene that is filmed again, or filmed because it was missed, without restarting the whole scene.

In use

We'll do a pick-up of the last two lines before we move on.

Last updated 4 Oct 2026

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