{"id":33152,"date":"2014-01-17T11:23:32","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T16:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/?p=33152"},"modified":"2014-01-17T14:00:22","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T19:00:22","slug":"why-a-script-supervisor-is-essential-to-your-films-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.premiumbeat.com\/blog\/why-a-script-supervisor-is-essential-to-your-films-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Why a Script Supervisor is Essential to Your Film’s Success"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever spent countless hours filming only to discover crucial continuity mistakes, rendering your film a mess? Preserving your film’s continuity is key to maintaining the script’s credibility.<\/h2>\n

\"Film<\/p>\n

You\u2019re on set. The entire crew is hard at work on the last scene before you wrap. The lighting is perfect, your camera operator has an amazing shot, excellent audio, and the actors are all delivering. You complete the scene in a timely fashion thanks to your crew\u2019s excellence. After wrapping your film, post-production immediately begins. In editing, you discover that your film cannot be cut.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite your crew\u2019s professionalism and excellence, your film lacks consistency: there are tons of continuity errors. Who was maintaining this continuity (or lack of it)? The script supervisor\u00a0(called the continuity supervisor in the UK) has the extremely important task of maintaining your film\u2019s continuity from shot to shot. They are essentially the editor\u2019s representatives on set.<\/p>\n

When every shot, action, and motion is consistent in your film, then you have achieved good continuity. The shooting schedule for a film may continue over a period of a few days, months, or even years. This places an even greater emphasis on maintaining proper consistency between shots.<\/p>\n

Responsibilities of a Script Supervisor<\/h2>\n

It is the job of the Script Supervisor to make a log of every action that is shot:<\/strong><\/p>\n