Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare scripts for continuity
- Source production documentation with details of scenes to be shot
- Analyse and break down scripts and production schedules to determine continuity implications of scenes to be shot
- Collaborate with relevant production staff to determine most efficient shooting sequence
- Prepare continuity documentation to deliver basic continuity information for each scene
- Identify story days and sequence of story within the script and mark against production schedule
- Note continuity information on script, production schedules or in a continuity diary according to organisational or standard industry practices
- Confirm dialogue requirements with relevant production staff to verify purpose and storyline
- Conduct continuity during production phase
- Log information for each action, or take, on script or in continuity diary
- Produce detailed notes on all elements associated with each scene to enable precise reproduction at a later date if required
- Take photographs of all characters, sets and locations to assist facilitation of continuity
- Time and record duration of all sequences during shoots
- Describe shots in terms of relevant technical information according to organisational requirements
- Provide progress reports to relevant production staff as required and in a timely manner, and update continuity documentation on an ongoing basis during productions
- Advise on continuity during productions
- Recognise implications for production schedules and costs of changes to dialogue and other elements, and promptly inform director
- Communicate approved changes to cast and crew promptly, either verbally or through relevant continuity documentation
- Liaise with personnel from other departments responsible for specific areas of continuity to ensure continuity for the whole production is maintained
- Report to director, according to organisational procedures, identified continuity problems and suggest ways to resolve