Picture and sound work prints of a day's shooting; usually an untimed one-light print, made without regard to color balance. Produced so that the action can be checked and the best takes selected; usually shown before the next day's shooting begins.
Also called rushes, this refers to unedited film. These are called Dailies because the film typically is viewed from a single day's shooting, even if the final commercial or program will take many days or weeks of shooting.
As the film is shot, production and development units view footage the following day. This film stock is known as 'dailies.' The producer, director and various studio department heads critically analyze the previous day's results, looking for any visible problems, from wardrobe to set dressings performances. In theory, dailies depict the progression of the film in relation to the course of production.
On a shoot, the workprint of a day's footage. On a typical film shoot, exposed negative film is rushed to a film processing lab at the end of a shooting day. Late that night the lab processes the negative, exposes a work print off of it, and processes that workprint in time for the DP and director to see it first thing the next morning. Also called Rushes.
The first quickly exposed positive print of a days shoot to be viewed by the director and cinematographer early the next day.
Screening of footage before it is edited.
First positive prints made from the negatives photographed on the previous day.
Also called "rushes," these are the previous day's scenes, processed overnight by the lab and screened after work the next day by the producer, director and crew heads. Actors are not generally invited to view dailies.
Usually viewed by the editor, producer, and director the day after they were shot. The purpose being if the continuity is not right, a prop is missing or out of place, the sound is bad or a host of other reasons, these mistakes can be caught and a schedule can be made for them to be re-shot.
Every day during the shooting of a film, the director and some members of the cast and crew view the footage shot the preceding day to verify that everything is satisfactory. If it is not, some of the footage may have to be reshot. These screenings are called "dailies screenings" or "rushes."
Dailies, in filmmaking, is the term used to describe the raw, unedited footage shot during the making of a motion picture. They are so called because usually at the end of each day, that day's footage is developed, synced to sound, and printed on film in a batch (and/or telecined onto video tape or disk) for viewing the next day by the director and some members of the film crew. However, the term can be used to refer to any raw footage, regardless of when it is developed or printed.