ABSTRACT
THE SCRIPT BREAKDOWN The script breakdown is a valuable tool for examining and bringing out the different elements of a script. Besides schedules, the breakdown also helps you to create lists of elements such as cast, props, set dressing, stunts, and wardrobe. The breakdown also ensures that these elements show up on set. For this reason, accuracy in the breakdown is crucial. Let’s say you mark a scene but forget to mark a character who walks into the room at the end of the scene. That character will not get on the breakdown sheets, which means he will not show up on the strips, which means he will not get on the day-out-of-days (DOOD) (a schedule of actors), which means he will not show up on the call sheet, which means he will not get called with a call time, which means he will not show up on set the day you shoot that scene! It is wise to always double-check your work.
