second unit

English

Noun

second unit (plural second units)

1. (cinematography) A separate team that shoots footage that is of secondary importance for the final cut of the motion picture, as opposed to first unit.
   • 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^[1], →ISSN:

     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.