The Craft of the Script Supervisor
Beginning Script Supervising
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The Beginning Script Supervising Workshops offered at "Cinema Workshops" cover all the hard and fast rules of filmmaking that every script supervisor must know. The course includes all the fundamental skills needed to successfully script dramatic films for film and/or television.
CINEMA WORKSHOPS meets only on Saturday’s from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm – each Saturday for 27 classes. Every other month we will have one double weekend of classes (meeting Sat/Sun) as scheduled below.
The time it takes to complete the course is 5 months of Saturday’s (including the double Sat/Sun Classes). Course lectures are recorded for review and/or if you are unable to attend due to work, illness, or other important matters that make it impossible for you to participate.
**It is highly recommended that you do not miss classes or to expect to take the course by just studying the pre-recorded videos. as this is not a course that is like other on-line courses where you go at your own pace. It is a requirement for each person who wishes to participate in the workshop, to be able to be there in person for their full participation for class discussions and hands-on work and assignments given during class. Except for illness, work, or other important reasons which require you have to miss class, please be sure you can attend the workshop dates before registering. It is a long course but a very thorough and comprehensive course and when you have completed the workshop you will be well-prepared to begin script supervising on your first projects in film and/or television.
What you will learn
Basic Rules Of Continuity, Skills & Duties Of The Script Supervisor
- Skills and duties of the script supervisor from pre-production through production.
- Basic Language & Theories Of Continuity: continuity of eyelines, space, motion, time, action, dialogue, narrative continuity. All concepts demonstrated with cameras "live action".
- Overview of Various Directorial Styles: film clips and hands-on camera work to demo.
Pre-Production
- Preparing the script for shooting, ("breaking down the script").
- Hands-on exercises working through all the breakdowns you need for your on-set work.
- Complete explanations of each part of the pre-production requirements for film and television
Production
- The role of each department in the filmmaking process & your relationship to all the key departments from pre-production through production, especially the working relationship between you, the director, DP/camera dept., sound and editorial.
- How to take appropriate and detailed script supervising notes for the director and editor.
- Learn All the Tools for Production: slating, timing and crediting scenes for time, matching action, working with actors, dialogue changes and improvisation, and much more.
- Blocking Strategies for Dialogue Scenes: using cameras to understand each blocking strategy; includes viewing of film clips applying these blocking strategies.
- Lectures on Cameras, Lenses & Sound Equipment Being Used Today: analog VS digital.
- Working with and/or on 2nd Unit, VFX Units, additional photography.
- Tools of the trade & on-set gear ideas, "Where to Find Great Equipment".
- Getting your first jobs, negotiating your deal, networking, building your resume for script supervising.
- Union vs. non-union work, getting into the Script Supervising Union.
- Introduction to scripting digitally, computer software programs, equipment, and how the digital format changes your workflow.
- Ongoing consultations before and after your first filmmaking projects.
Blocking Strategies & More Advanced Script Supervising Techniques
- Complex blocking strategies for dialogue scenes with multiple players and multiple cameras, using DVX camera (hands-on exercises)
- How to discover the "key" areas of a scene that could potentially be covered and what shots would be owed – what choices the director has to work with
- How to draw effective floor plans for all blocking strategies, place all camera angles owed in each sequence we rehearse, block and shoot
- Working with previously shot scenes ("Dailies"), you will analyze the continuity issues, study the blocking, directing, etc., and script supervise these scenes
- Crossing the line strategies will be studied and demonstrated with cameras and film clips
- Get new ideas, find solutions that can work to solve "on set" problems related to continuity
- Effective matching action techniques with multiple characters and cameras
- How to work with adlib and alternate dialogue – how it affects narrative continuity
* Limited Enrollment
Please check with Randi Feldman at cinemaworkshops@gmail.com for availability.
