Coverage Planned
After getting to know the script, try to find out the director’s plans for coverage of a scene.
Important Junctions
If you know where the important junctions for cuts will be, you can pay particular attention to the continuity at those points.
The director, of course, may not have any plans, except, one assumes, in his head.
Circulated Shot Lists
Almost every director I have worked with has started shooting in an incredibly efficient way by having lists of their proposed shots circulated to the unit. After a few days the unit thank you profusely for these lists, fold them up neatly and put them away ‘in a safe place’, never to be looked at again, and the director then confines his lists to himself and you.
After two weeks or ...
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