The Craft of the Script Supervisor
Script Supervising for Commercials
The basic knowledge and skills acquired during your basic training as a script supervisor on dramatic films, becomes the foundation for learning to work on commercials. A great many of the same principles will apply to scripting both dramatic and commercial projects.
What you will learn
- How to script supervise on all types of commercials.
- The forms, procedures and language of the commercial world.
- The similarities and differences between features and commercials in terms of paperwork and responsibilities.
- Script Supervising on commercials that include VFX & multiple cameras .
- Working with the crew: how to work best with the director, camera department, sound department, VTR department, production and editing.
- Digital film vs. analog film.
- Demonstrations of effective programs and approaches to using the computer on and off set.
- Finding work, making your deal, learning what is union vs. non union work.
- New technologies and how they impact your job.
Prerequisites
Completion of Beginning Script Supervising Part A and/or some previous experience in script supervising.
* Limited Enrollment
Please check with Randi Feldman at cinemaworkshops@gmail.com for availability.
Cinema Workshops Advantage
Receive a valuable Course Workbook that contains many examples of different types of commercials, essays, exercises and forms for scripting on all types of commercials.
Get referrals to projects that are being shot by first time directors and student filmmakers.
Receive an hour of free consultation before or after a filmmaking project.
Attend again for a refresher in the future after you have taken the class. You may retake this course where available for a reduced rate of $50.00 plus any current workbook fee. See details.
Tuition & Fees
Workshop Tuition
Tuition: $300.00
Workbook/Supplies Fee: $20.00
Total: $320.00
Deposit: $100.00 due upon registration
With 10% Discount
Tuition: $270.00
Workbook/Supplies Fee: $20.00
Total: $290.00
This discount is available to students registering 4 weeks before the class begins.
Deposit: $100.00 due upon registration
Weekend Workshops
6 hours of instruction per day with lunch break included. There will be hands-on instruction followed by a full day of working digitally on commercials (Taught by Script Supervisor(s) with extensive experience in Commercials)
Please note: Each Beginning Script Supervising workshop is confirmed upon enrollment of 4 to 8 students. Notification that the enrollment has been met will be provided 3 weeks before the start date of any class via contact information students will provide in the registration form.
At this time, no workshops have been scheduled for 2024.
