Beyond continuity: script supervision for the modern filmmaker

"A guide to the craft of script supervising, Beyond Continuity features practical instruction through real-world examples demonstrating and explaining the skills needed by a professional script supervisor. Mary Cybulski, one of Hollywood's premier script supervisors, imparts her sage wisdom as she walks you through the process of training and working as a professional script supervisor, covering the basic skills of breaking down a script, taking notes on set, matching, cheating, determining screen direction, and knowing what the director, actors, and editor expect from a script supervisor. She also details many of the more subtle, but just as important skills-- how to get a job, how to think like an editor, how to tell what is important in a script and on set, how to get along with the cast and crew, and how not to get overwhelmed when there is too much information to process"

Introduction / David Mamet -- Introduction : What's so good about being a script supervisor ; What a script supervisor does ; Basic script supervising skills -- Getting started : Building script supervisor skills ; How to get a job ; Meeting the director ; Making your deal ; You have the job -- Preproduction: breaking down the script : Overview ; Defining the scenes ; Page/Time/Scene tally ; Master breakdown ; Time breakdowns ; Special breakdowns -- Preproduction: non-breakdown preproduction : Rehearsals ; Rewrites ; The read through ; Tech scouts ; The production meeting ; Getting physically ready for the shoot ; What's in your kit -- Production overview: keeping the notes : Introduction, three kinds of notes ; Notes used everyday, on every movie ; Notes used on some days or some movies ; On-set matching notes ; Slating ; Setting up your book -- Production overview: maintaining continuity : Why we need continuity ; Two kinds of continuity ; What to match ; Thinking like an editor ; Variations in continuity style ; Cheating, when what's wrong is right -- The language and grammar of filmmaking : How to think about film grammar ; What's in the film grammar toolkit? ; Screen directio…