The Craft of the Script Supervisor
Part 1: Beginning Script Supervising
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.
- The Role Of Each Department In the Filmmaking Process & Your Relationship To All the Key Departments from pre-production through production.
- The Rules of Filmmaking & Continuity
- Basic Language & Theories: Continuity of eyelines, space, motion, time, action, dialogue & narrative continuity. All concepts demonstrated with cameras/ "live action".
- The first few days of this workshop, we work with cameras to introduce and discuss common continuity errors when working with eyelines, matching action and dialogue and how to resolve these errors efficiently.
- An overview of Various Directorial Styles: The Master and Coverage, Assemblage, Montage, Sequence Shooting – Film Clips and Camera work to demo.
- Pre-Production: How to prepare a script for shooting, ("breaking down the script"). Hands-on exercise working through all the breakdowns you need for your on-set work.
- What is expected from you during the entire pre-production phase of shooting from pre-timing through rehearsals, to the first day of shooting
- Preparing for the first day of shooting
- Learn "On set" protocol – The daily workflow "on-set", your working relationship with each member of the set, especially the working relationship between you, the director, DP/camera dept.
- How To Take Appropriate & Detailed Script Notes For the Director & Editor
- All The "tools" for production phasei.e.: Slating, timing and crediting scenes for time, matching action, working with actors, dialogue changes and improv. , etc.
- Blocking strategies for Dialogue Scenes: using cameras to set up and understand each blocking strategy; this includes viewing of film clips applying these blocking strategies
- Lectures on Types of Cameras, Lenses & Sound Equipment Being Used Today: Analog VS Digital Filmmaking
- Working With 2nd Units, VFX Units
- Tools of the Trade & On-Set Gear Ideas, "Where To Find Great Equipment"
- Getting Your First Jobs, Making Your Deal - Negotiating Your Rate, Networking
- Union vs. Non Union Work, Getting Into The Script Supervising Union
- Introduction to scripting digitally, Computer Software Programs, equipment required, new digital cameras, and how the digital format changes your workflow
- How to write your first resume
- Ongoing Consultations Before And After Your First Filmmaking Projects Workbook includes all material needed for each section of the class (forms included), Scripts (whole or partial) to be broken down and used to script supervise and a library of information covering all the areas you will be studying.
* Limited Enrollment
Please check with Randi Feldman at randifeldman@yahoo.com for availability.
