Continuity 101 (or: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love The Scripty)
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#2: The Continuity Supervisor – Avril Rowlands
This one’s British rather than American. It’s a much slighter and more basic book than Pat Miller’s, and a fair bit of it isn’t really about the Continuity Supervisor at all, but about working as a Production Assistant or Production Coordinator (the average Continuity Supervisor doesn’t generally look at insurance or catering…). Still very informative though, and most of it does stick to the title.[1] Covers some of post-production as well, plus a little bit on doing Continuity on documentary productions and the like.
The most useful thing I picked up from this was my habit of lettering each dialogue line A-Z (and then AA-AZ and so on), which you can see on the Marked-Up Script excerpts over in my Samples section. The US system (primarily for television shows) is to number each dialogue line for reference, but I prefer the letters when using consecutive slating as it is much clearer that you’re talking about a script reference rather than a scene or shot or take.[2] I have extended the system to letter each action point as well as each dialogue line, which has been well-received by editors. It works particularly well with action scenes.
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Posted By That Continuity Guy On March 2, 2009 @ 12:41 pm In Further Reading
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