Chapter 8Navigating Paperwork and Daily Shooting-Process Tasks
Production Office “Paper”
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. Technology has, for some unexplained reason, increased the volume of paper, not lessened it. I’ve recently managed to reduce the number of one-inch binders I fill to one; I rely on the laptop, iPhone, and iPad to hold the bulk of the data for easy retrieval, with a fraction ...
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