tone meeting

plural tone meetings

1. broadcastingA meeting between the showrunner of a television series and the director to discuss an episode that is to be produced.

   The final aspect to completing your preparation [as a director] is the tone meeting with the showrunner. (...) Generally, the two of you go through the script, scene by scene (...).

   2013, Bethany Rooney, Mary Lou Belli, Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing, →ISBN, page 73

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   These particular meetings are called tone meetings and require the showrunner meet with every new director hired. The idea is to go over what the episode will look like and how it will fit in with the rest of the season.

   2016 January 5, Julia Alexander, “Former Walking Dead showrunner slams AMC in new testimony”, in Polygon