Approvals, claims & legal copy · Core
Super
Also called: supers, on-screen copy
ELI5
Text placed over the picture, such as a claim, price, instruction or legal line.
Used in conversation
“The legal super is too small to read at the current duration.”
Definition
Text placed over the picture, such as a claim, price, caption or legal line.
Here “Super” means: Text placed over the picture, such as a claim, price, caption or legal line. Other meanings are stored as separate sense entries and must be chosen explicitly.
Pitch context
You may hear this during a commercial brief, treatment, bid, award or pre-production process.
Why it matters: Helps interpret the brief, director treatment, bid, award, production process and campaign deliverables.
Connected terms
- EndboardAn endboard is the closing graphic composition; a super is individual on-screen text that may appear anywhere.
- SuperAn advertising super is the on-screen text itself; a screenplay SUPER is the instruction that such text should appear.
- Legal superA legal super is a legally or compliance-driven form of on-screen super.
Sources & evidence · 6
Direct term-level sources and supporting source families.
- AICP — AICP Bid FormDirect source · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- AICP — Suggested Best Practices for Bidding and Bidding Reference GuideDirect source · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- IPA / APA / ISBA — Production Pitch Process Initiative and Best PracticeDirect source · institutional · checked 2026-08-14
- pitch.dog — Pitch Dictionary Deep Research SynthesisDirect source · practitioner · checked 2026-08-14
- World Intellectual Property Organization — Rights Clearance: A Guide for Independent FilmmakersDirect source · primary · checked 2026-08-14
- Association of Independent Commercial Producers — AICP Guidelines and Best PracticesSupporting source family · institutional · checked 2026-08-14