This specialized language can take many forms, but the most popular phrases on the set are "Check the gate, That's all, and Blacklist." Check the gate is a term used to ensure that "the camera and film are free of impurities or blockages", as a precaution to prevent the film from becoming unusable or the scene from being re-shot. This effective jargon would allow the director to make sure that there is nothing that can interrupt the filming that he can control. The next line, "Let's wrap up here," is used to signal the end of filming for the day and the director is satisfied with how the scene turned out. The Oxford Dictionary described how the word wrap was an acronym and stood for "Wind, Reel and Print" once the film entered post-production. This phrase has become an integral part of mainstream culture and is synonymous with completing a task, which can still be heard even in the hallways of Joel Barlow High School. The final term, Blacklist, has taken on several variations since it was first used in the 1950s, largely due to the simplicity of the word and the way the film industry could associate a plethora of films and directors with this list . The original meaning of Blacklist was full of shame, as it originally referred to actors and directors who had been shunned by Hollywood for their ties to communism..
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