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Definition: Screen Test |
Screen TestNoun1. A filmed audition of an actor or actress. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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What generally happens is that the actor is placed in front of a camera and is instructed to perform selected lines and actions to see if they are suitable. The developed film is later played back for the relevent production personnel for evaluation.
Screen tests can also be used to judge the suitability of costume, make-up and other details.
Different types of actors could have different tasks for the tests. For example, a lead for a musical could be a request to sing and dance to demonstrate their skill. International actors like Bruce Lee were given screen tests to demonstrate that they are sufficiently articulate in the relevent language. In Lee's case, he was instructed to converse about Chinese culture in English to judge his grasp of the language and then to demonstrate some martial art moves to show off his physical skills.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Screen test."
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Don Adams' Screen Test (1974) Screen Test #4 (1966) Hollywood Screen Test (1948) The Screen Test (1936) Centerfold Screen Test 2 (1986) | |
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| Domain | Title |
Theater & Movies | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
triple screen test | 42 |
drug screen test | 7 |
quad screen test | 3 |
hearing screen test | 2 |
lcd screen test | 2 |
pass drug screen test | 2 |
nude screen test | 2 |
drug quick screen test | 2 |
porn screen test | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "screen test"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | bout d'essai. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | probeaufnahmen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | provino (proof, specimen, test piece), prova cinematografica. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eenscray esttay teste de cinema. (various references) проба на роль. (various references) prueba cinematográfica. (various references) provfilmning, provfilm. (various references) deneme filmi çekmek, deneme filmi (pilot film). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-n-r-s-s-t-t" | |
-1 letter: erectness, recentest, secretest. | |
-2 letters: centeses, secretes, serenest, sesterce, sternest. | |
-3 letters: censers, centers, centres, creeses, cresset, entrees, essence, nesters, netters, renests, resects, resents, retenes, retests, screens, secerns, secrete, secrets, serenes, settees, setters, streets, teeners, teeters, tenrecs, tensest, tenters, tercets, tersest, testees, testers. | |
-4 letters: censer, censes, center, centre, certes, creese, crests, enters, entree, erects, esters, eterne, nester, netter, recent, recess, reests, renest, rentes, resect, reseen, resees, resent, resets, retene, retest, scenes, scents, screen, screes, secern, secret, serene, serest, sestet, settee, setter, sneers, steers, steres, sterns, street, teener, teeter, tenets, tenrec, tenser, tenses, tenter, terces, tercet, terete, ternes, testee, tester, testes, treens, tsetse. | |
-5 letters: cense, cents, ceres, cetes, cress, crest, enter, erect, ernes, erses, ester, nerts, nests, netts, reest, rente, rents, resee, reset, rests, scene, scent, scree, sects, seers, sense, sente, seres, setts, sneer, steer, stere, stern, stets, teens, tenet, tense, tents, terce, terne, terns, terse, tests, treen, trees, tress, trets. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-n-r-s-s-t-t" | |
+4 letters: contritenesses, electrotonuses, pectinesterase, preanesthetics, protectiveness. | |
+5 letters: concertmeisters, crotchetinesses, destructiveness, enterocolitises, intricatenesses, pectinesterases, precipitateness, restrictiveness, tractablenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 72 65 65 6E 54 65 73 74 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01110010 01100101 01100101 01101110 00100000 01010100 01100101 01110011 01110100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c r e e n   T e s t |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0072 0065 0065 006E 0054 0065 0073 0074 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)536984717180254718586 |
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