Special film performance type

A voice performance (on film, television, etc.) is one in which the actor's voice is used but the actor does not appear on-screen. This is most commonly found in animation, but also occurs when an actor's voice is dubbed in over another actor's speech.

A playback singer is a singer whose singing is prerecorded for use in movies. Playback singers record songs on soundtracks, and actors or actresses lip-sync the songs for cameras. Movies produced especially in the India subcontinent commonly employ this format. A majority of Bollywood, Sandalwood, Tollywood and Kollywood movies in India typically include six or seven songs. Popular playback singers in India enjoy the same "star" status as popular actors, and talented music directors also...

A is a Japanese vocal actor. Seiyū work in radio, television, and movies; they perform voice-overs for non-Japanese movies; they provide narration; and they work as anime and video game character actor. Conventional use among English-speaking fanatics is to use "seiyū" to refer to the Japanese actor and "vocal actor" when speaking of a character actor in a series translated into English. Japan currently produces 60% of the animated series in the world. Because the animation industry in...

Deleted scene is a commonly-used term in the entertainment industry, especially the film and television industry, which usually refers specifically to scenes removed from or replaced by another scene in the final "cut", or version, of a film (including television serials). It is occasionally, but rarely, referred to as a "cut scene", but due to the usage of "cut scene" in reference to video games, the preference seems to be to call it "deleted" instead. A related term is "extended scene", which...

Archive footage refers to any pre-existing footage used in a film or television show.