The Craft of the Script Supervisor
Beginning Script Supervising Part A
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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.
What you will learn
- 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.
- 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 sotes 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 improv. , 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.
Note that The Complete Beginning Script Supervising Series for CINEMA WORKSHOPS consists of Part A and Part B and is recommeded to be taken back to back for best results.
* Limited Enrollment
Please check with Randi Feldman at cinemaworkshops@gmail.com for availability.
