The Big Picture
Here are a few unrelated but important points before I wrap up.
ACTORS ARE ANGELS
In your work as a script supervisor, you will from time to time come across touchy actors: actors who need absolute quiet, actors who freak out when given a note, actors who make it difficult for you to do your job as the director is asking you to do it. It’s hard to know how to deal with people like this.
My recommendation? Take an acting class. Take a bunch of acting classes. Actors work with the crew, but the kind of work they do is very different from ours. Even the most community minded, the ones with the most gracious set presence, need something we crew people don’t need.
What do they do that is so different? Their job is, ...
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