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What department do you come under?

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None - or rather, my own. I am a department of one.^[1] I report to the the Director, the Editor, and the Producer / Line Producer or Production Manager.^[2] I defer to the DoP^[3], and of course the 1st AD.^[4]

Unless there’s a second unit which is running to its own Script Supervisor, or on the rare occurrences when the main Script Supervisor has an assistant. [↩]
Depending on the size and type of production - whichever one actually hired me. [↩]
Ho ho. [↩]
Everyone defers to the 1st AD. Even the Director… [↩]

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