Breakdowns

So this week we learnt about chopping a script up into managable pieces (which, unfortunately, only occasionally involves one of these).

There are also various colours/symbols for the different departments - like red for the lead actors, pink for animals, yellow for incidental characters, purple for animals, *'s for wardrobe, orange for locations etc.

It was cool, cause reading a script through is one thing, but once you start adding in the various cuts, and deciding on shots, that's when it really starts coming together in your head, and it's way easier to visualize whats going on. It's a little time consuming on the longer scripts, but definitely worth the time in the long run.