Script supervising and film continuity
This definitive handbook explains how a script is transformed into a motion picture or television program. Readers will learn the methodology and craft of the script supervisor, who ensures that the continuity of a film, its logical progression, is coherent. The book teaches all vital script supervising functions, including how to: prepare, or "break down" a script for shooting, maintaining screen direction and progression, matching scenes and shots for editing, cuing actors, recording good tak…
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- Full title :Script supervising and film continuity / Pat P. Miller.
Summary
This definitive handbook explains how a script is transformed into a motion picture or television program. Readers will learn the methodology and craft of the script supervisor, who ensures that the continuity of a film, its logical progression, is coherent. The book teaches all vital script supervising functions, including how to: prepare, or "break down" a script for shooting, maintaining screen direction and progression, matching scenes and shots for editing, cuing actors, recording good takes and prints, preparing time and log sheets for editing.
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- Publication Date:©1999.
- Edition:3rd ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Focal Press
- Place of Publication:Boston
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1999.
Notes
"The Continuity supervisor's bible"--Cover.
Includes index.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 236 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780080516769, 0080516769
- oclc:on1089478416
- LC Classification:TR850
- Dewey Decimal:791.43/0233
Table of Contents
Getting into the act -- Dealing with the script -- Prior to principal photography -- A day on a movie set -- Camera rehearsals -- The slating syndrome -- Getting the scene on film -- Timing is of the essence -- "That's a wrap!" -- Continuity script to the editor -- Dynamics of the camera -- The concept of coverage -- The mastery of matching -- Second unit filming -- Filming for television -- Film language.
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