As exemplified by aspiring actor Mia’s multiple messy attempts in Damien Chazelle’s “La La Land,” reading a script in preparation for an audition can be overwhelming. Though it will never be easy, ...

The script supervisor is a well-respected person on set. This position oversees the consistency and continuity of a production while the project is in principal photography. Many script supervisors ...

When I started out script supervising almost 20 years ago, the tools of the trade were a stopwatch, a pen or pencil, paper, a Polaroid camera and that all important bible, the script. Each script ...

After working on such films as ‘The Ice Storm,’ ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind’ and ‘Synecdoche, New York,’ she became a stills photographer on movie sets. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor Mary ...

When Scott Frank was a child, his father, Barry, bought a small Cessna airplane, and on weekends the two of them would fly. This was the mid-nineteen-seventies, in Los Gatos, California. Barry was a ...