second unit
noun1
Broadcasting, Cinematography, Film, Media, Television A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.
- It is the apotheosis of what we in modern sport are obliged to call “plotlines”, and if Leni Riefenstahl were still alive, I imagine she’d be shooting second unit on it.2024 March 5, Marina Hyde, “It’s the Christian Horner paradox: F1 is now hideously dull, but the drama has never been better”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: