Covering Agent
A Covering Agent monitors productions on behalf of an agency’s clients — maintaining relationships with casting directors and production teams to maximize ongoing opportunities for represented talent.
National Conference of Personal Managers (NCOPM)
The National Conference of Personal Managers (NCOPM) is the premier trade association for entertainment and talent managers — establishing ethical guidelines and advocating for the profession.
Packaging
Packaging is the agency practice of combining multiple clients into a single creative project — generating packaging fees from productions and raising conflict of interest concerns that led to a major industry dispute.
Plus Ten
Plus Ten refers to adding the agent’s 10% commission on top of a performer’s quoted fee rather than deducting it — standard in commercial work, ensuring the performer receives their full quoted rate.
Point Agent
A Point Agent is the primary agent within an agency responsible for a specific client’s overall career strategy — the first point of contact and coordinator of all agency activity on the client’s behalf.
Tenpercentary
Tenpercentary is industry slang for a talent agency — derived from the standard 10% commission agents charge, used informally to acknowledge the commercial nature of the agent-client relationship.
Overdubbing
Overdubbing is the recording of additional audio over existing material — used in animation, music production, and foreign language versions to add, replace, or layer new performances onto recorded content.
Temp Track
A Temp Track is temporary existing music placed in a film cut during editing — giving creative teams an emotional reference before the original score is complete, but sometimes creating problematic attachment that limits the composer’s creative freedom.
Red Band Trailer
A Red Band Trailer is an age-restricted film preview containing mature content — preceded by a red title card indicating 18+ audiences only, contrasting with the standard green band trailer approved for all audiences.
Hand Model
A Hand Model is a performer specializing in close-up shots featuring their hands — engaged for specific hand characteristics in commercial and print work where hands are the primary visual focus.