CHAPTER 8
Paperwork and Production Tasks
Film production companies generate stacks of paper during the activity of delivering a film product to the studio. Script revisions run the gamut of white, blue, pink, yellow, green, goldenrod, buff, salmon, cherry, tan, gray, and ivory. The remainder takes the shape of contracts, forms, lists, and memos. The good news is most production companies provide large recycling bins for the waste; the sobering news is an art director will fill at least two three-hole, four-inch binders per show. Super microchip technology has, for some unexplained reason, increased the volume of paper, not less-ened it. I’ve recently managed to keep the number of binders I keep in my car to one; I rely on the laptop and PDA ...
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