Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare scripts for continuity
- Analyse and break down scripts to determine continuity implications of scenes to be shot
- Collaborate with relevant production staff to determine most efficient shooting sequence
- Prepare relevant 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 update continuity documentation on an ongoing basis during productions
- Advise on continuity during productions
- Advise director of effects of changes to dialogue and other elements and their implications for production schedules and costs
- Communicate approved changes to cast and crew in terms of effects on them either verbally or through relevant continuity documentation
- Liaise with personnel from other departments responsible for specific areas of continuity to ensure that correct continuity for the whole production is maintained
- Advise director of continuity problems according to organisational procedures and offer solutions