Continuity Supervisor, 4th Edition

The Realities of It All

Location work can be very tough. You will undoubtedly feel many times that there are easier ways of earning a living as you stand half-frozen and soaked to the skin in a field at three in the morning trying to shoot a group of sheep who refuse to cross the field from left to right. Or when you are lost in a mist on the hills with a director who has lost the map, lost his and everybody else’s way, and, even more important, lost the location caterers who are somewhere down in the valley.

Continuity itself is hard work. It requires an immense amount of concentration, not only when shooting is actually taking place, but when nothing is apparently happening and most of the unit appear to be idling around. Most of them are