Continuity Supervisor, 4th Edition

Making Mistakes

You will of course make mistakes. But a large part of the job is that of having confidence in your accuracy, because then you can get the confidence of the unit and time-wasting arguments do not arise.

What to Do Over a Mistake

If you or an artist make a mistake, and you are immediately aware of it, you can always quietly tell the director and ask for a retake. Sometimes a director will not retake for continuity. In that case there is little you can do, except take the rather drastic and ill-advised action of walking into shot, smiling broadly and saying ‘Hello Ma’. But after such action you might well find yourself off the set and possibly off the shoot.

If you make an error in a scene already shot and the continuity will affect ...