Getting Started
BUILDING SCRIPT SUPERVISOR SKILLS
Most filmmaking crafts are learned by apprenticeship. New filmmakers can start as production assistants in the camera or prop department and advance within that department. We can’t do that. Script supervisors work in a department of one. We learn basic skills from reading books like this, from taking workshops, volunteering on student films and talking to more experienced script supervisors. The internet has a lot of information, too. Check the experience and credibility of the author before you take what they have to say seriously. We start working on small projects with other beginners and move up project by project instead of within a department.
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