KBC Film Solutions

In an interview with Making Of, KBC Film Solutions partner Kathleen Messmer briefly discusses her role as the Script Supervisor on the set of “The Dry Land.” A transcript is available below the video.

Transcript:

One of my professors told me that I should study script supervising if I never wanted to be unemployed, and it was really good advice. And plus, it is one of the few positions you can enter the industry as a key or department head. You’re in charge of continuity, and that means not just set continuity. That means you have to be aware of hair, makeup, wardrobe, prop, set dec, and all of that because if any of it gets messed up, you’re the one that’s to blame even though it’s not your department.

[flipping through a script]
We start out with sides, which is like a mini call sheet with all the sceens you’re going to do for the day. And then they pull the scenes out of the script and miniaturize them.

[pointing out columns of a log]
The Scene number, the take number, whether it sync or mos for sound, the camera roll number, the sound roll number

[flipping through a lined script, logs, and reports]
You have to be very, very, very detailed oriented. And you have to like finding little things that are not correct, or if something is correct, take satisfaction out of the fact that it is, and you did your job well.