English to French Art/Literary Cinema, Film, TV, Drama

What is the role of a script supervisor?

JEAN: I think we are really the culmination of everything that is filmed because it’s down to script supervisors - we used to be called continuity girls in England - that everything is perfect before it’s filmed. We check that the actor is wearing the right costume, they’ve got the right hair, they’ve got the right nail polish color, that they’ve got two buttons undone, that they are saying the right words, that they look at the correct eye lines… all those things are really down to the script supervisor. In England particularly, I think, I don’t know about other countries. We certainly look for eye lines and whether it’s going to cut together for the editor, we take on the whole of that.