I Dream Of Continuity

Hi everybody, I was just watching I Dream of Jeannie and I found an episode where Jeannie makes herself a continuity supervisor. The director refers to her as a script girl (which is so annoying) but she later refers to herself as a continuity supervisor (yay!) She uses a mini hour glass to time the shots, how cute is that? Watch it here: Everybody's a Movie Star

Weekend

The last shooting day of Liz, wrapped up on time and went well. I cannot believe its over already, I feel like I just started on that movie.

I intended to start reviewing the LE1600 tablet today along with a software called Bluebeam. Unfortunately, the tablet came in this weekend without the digitizer pen... So i have a computer with no way to input information in it. I called up the computer company and they will be sending it soon. I'm annoyed though, I want to start tagging the script for my next movie, but I have to wait. I'm the script supervisor for the movie "Busted Balls," and I want to use a completely digital workflow for this. If I don't get my stylus pen by this weekend, I'll have to start pre-production the old fashion way =/ I'm sure it will come in though, and I'll be up and running in no time. What have you done when your equipment was out of service or not ready when you were?

Lunch Break

So right now I'm on the set of Liz and we are breaking for Lunch. Today is pretty easy. We have a bunch of long dolly shots that don't require much coverage.

We have a scene where the main actress has to go outside from the living room. We already shot the ext. shot a few weeks ago and it was a sunny day. The weather is on and off at the moment... We do have a rain-date for this shoot on Sunday, but the audio guy Jon, and I have set plans to be out of state for the rest of the weekend. I hope the weather will be good, or wrap up today is going to be hectic... Has anyone ever had to postpone/ cancel a trip because a shoot added days or had to do a re-shoot when you planned to be gone? What did you do, or what would you do if it happened?

Trying out a Tablet

Hey everybody! I've been scouring around Google and just about every blog I could find that talks about continuity supervising and have realized that there are not that many. Every once in a while I come across a reference where they use computers instead of conventional paper and pens to log notes before, during and after shoots. I think that is so interesting and great for the environment. I find myself wasting so much paper (and time quite frankly) printing off multiple copies of the script, tagging them, lining them, and then doing reports. So I have decided to use a tablet computer to do this instead.

I looked around and decided on an Motion Computing LE1600. It looks like this:

I bought it used, and it should be getting it sometime next week. I had wished to use it for the last day of the production I'm on, but It is probably better that I practice with the tablet before jumping onto the set with it.

Also, I ran across this article. It's a case study of a continuity supervisor who uses a software package called Bluebeam. It's a PDF editor that can has tagging and stamps and such. I plan on trying it out when I get the tablet. Has anybody used it before? How about using a tablet for continuity on set? I would love to get some suggestions and ideas or stories about it.