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Sets, stages & construction · Working

Backlot

ELI5

An outdoor studio area containing standing streets, buildings or open land for filming.

Used in conversation

“Let’s include the backlot in the next design review.”

Pitch context

You may encounter “Backlot” in production design, locations, costume & hmu conversations or materials.

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Sources & evidence · 3

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