ABSTRACT
Film production companies generate stacks of paper during the activity ofdelivering a film product to the studio. Script revisions run the gamut of white, blue, pink, yellow, green, goldenrod, buff, salmon, cherry, tan, gray, and ivory. The remainder takes the shape of contracts, forms, lists, and memos. The good news is most production companies provide large recycling bins for the waste; the sobering news is an art director will fill at least two three-hole, four-inch binders per show. Super microchip technology has, for some unexplained reason, increased the volume of paper, not lessened it. I’ve recently managed to keep the number of binders I keep in my car to one; I rely on the laptop and PDA to hold the bulk of the data for easy retrieval, with a fraction of the weight. If you are serious about doing this work, you might want to consider this or develop a similar system of data entry and rapid retrieval. It will save time-and ultimately, forests.
