Information for the Editor

There are two ways of providing the editor with all the information he or she requires when working on a scripted production.

Typed –Up Continuity Report Sheets

You can type up all your rough notes on to a continuity report sheet and give it to the editor. That is the system most people follow and one which I used myself for many years until I happened to mention to my husband, who is an editor, that all the additional typing in hotel bedrooms late at night or early in the morning was, for me, the one big drawback to the job.

His reply surprised me, for he said that he did not need half the information which had been so painstakingly given to him. For example, he was not interested in knowing what costumes the artists ...

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