Script Supervising and Film Continuity

by Pat P. Miller

Book Overview

This definitive handbook explains how a script is transformed into a motion picture or television program. Readers will learn the methodology and craft of the script supervisor, who ensures that the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0240800184
• ISBN13: 9780240800189
• Release Date: April 1990
• Publisher: Focal Press
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

P. Miller and Script Supervising

This book is the BIBLE of the Script Supervisors book to purchase. If you are looking for a Internet class to take on Script Supervising you can use this book in the class! Internet classes are available at Riverside Community College and also Saddleback College for those interested in learning Script Supervising taught on your own home PC or laptop and classes run 8 or 16 weeks depending on what semester you sign up.

P. Miller and Script Supervising

This book is the BIBLE of the Script Supervisors book to purchase. If you are looking for a Internet class to take on Script Supervising you can use this book in the class! Internet classes are available at Riverside Community College and also Saddleback College for those interested in learning Script Supervising taught on your own home PC or laptop and classes run 8 or 16 weeks depending on what semester you sign up. Great class!!!!! Highly recommended.

New to Script/Continuity Supervising

I'm new to Script supervising and I've learned a wealth of information. I highly recommend this book.

Necessary resource, if unglamorous treatment

Miller's book provides the necessary foundational data one will need before getting into script supervising. Her writing doesn't exactly scintillate with humor like some of the new "guerilla filmmaking" books out there today -- she tends to write like a 1950s schoolteacher, precise and methodical -- but in an admittedly esoteric specialization of the industry where there are only a few books on the topic available, you really don't have a lot of options and you'll need this book. It's NOT sufficient for giving one the complete training needed to actually work as a script supervisor, however. Whoever wrote that you can learn what you need to know "on set" is just asking for trouble -- it's like thinking you can read a book on piloting an airplane and just get behind the yoke and learn "what you need to know" in the air. On a "real" film set (not some zero-budget digicam or student project that no one will ever see) mistakes are EXPENSIVE. Mistakes by a poorly trained s.s. can cost thousands of dollars (not including the cost of therapy when the director and editor go bonkers trying to cut the film from the scripty's notes.) Trying to learn on a "real" set could make it the first and the last real movie set you'll ever work on. I value Miller's book but it must be combined with a good course of study with a real-life teacher who can answer your questions. A course that includes on-the-job training and followup and information on how to research and obtain real jobs doing script supervising is critical -- obviously no book can contain all this. I found Jim Kelly Durgin's course to be helpful in this regard, and there may be others out there too if you look for them. BTW, I don't feel that the 3rd edition of the Miller book is substantially different or better than the 2nd, so if you need to save some money, you'll do just fine with the 2nd edition. I agree that she is old-fashioned (she doesn't deal _at all_ with the new continuity software on the market, a huge omission) but, again, there aren't that many books about this subject readily available.