When You Make Notes

You are standing on the set, by the camera, on the first day of shooting. The world seems to have gone mad around you, with everyone busy rushing round, attending to their own concerns. At what point do you start to do your job and begin taking notes?

Write What you Can When you Can

You should start to take notes as soon as possible. The order in which things will happen will vary, but you should make it a rule to write down what you can when you can and always be alert to what is going on around you.

If you are working on a production where continuity is of great importance, you should never leave the set when shots are being discussed, set up, rehearsed and recorded. You should not retire to a little room, set aside for ...

Get Continuity Supervisor, 4th Edition now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.