It took me years to figure out what to do and how a set was run.
Even though I had actually directed and produced some films (pretty large feet for a woman). I still did not know too much about making big-budget films.
I wanted to know what was the difference between a big-budget film and a low-budget film. Some people would say budget, but really it was something about the quality, some low-budget films could have the quality of a big-budget film.
So what was the difference?
Sometimes you ask a question and the answer does not arrive until years later. It took me many sets working on both big and low budgets for pay and no pay. I just wanted to be on set and I did whatever position I could get.
Then I took Jim Kelly Durgin’s class. I was actually slated to take an editing class because I had already been editing shorts on free media and felt they were a lot to learn from editing. But once I took Script Supervising it was a game changer.
I realized that a script supervisor actually was the difference. Once, I spoke with one of my friends who had been in the industry for several years. He said he had been in 70 low-budget films and out of 70 films, only 20 were finished, and only 15 of them had script supervisors. The ones with script supervisors were finished and 5 made it through without a script supervisor.
So if you want to finish your movie at a more affordable rate too, get a script supervisor. If you want better quality in your movie, get a great script supervisor.
If you want to make films and learn the process become a script supervisor.
I teach a class on script supervision it is a great way to learn in 3 days everything about film making. Seriously more than what you learn in 4 years in college and not even a tenth of the price. Check it out here:
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