The Work of Continuity
The person responsible for continuity provides a complete, written document of the shooting. It should be a very detailed and accurate yet very concise work. By concise, I mean that while a two-page essay on each shot in a flowing literary style may be aesthetically pleasing it will be virtually useless as a working document, as no one will have the time to read it.
The document is of twofold use.
1. To the person doing continuity on location. As the material is shot out of sequence it is obviously necessary to have some record, built up over the shooting period, of what was actually shot in order to preserve continuity from one shot to another and from scene to scene, irrespective of the shooting order.
This means that ...
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