ABSTRACT
PRODUCER Breaking Down the Script Before a shooting schedule can be devised, the producer examines the script from all practical angles. Up to now, the emphasis has been on making the structure and the dialogue of the story work. Although it might be dramatically effective for the main characters to have an intimate conversation in a park during a rainstorm on a bridge at night, from a practical point of view it might be difficult to accomplish. The producer must think about the difficulty of obtaining permission to shoot in the park and the problems of making rain, lighting a bridge at night, and recording dialogue with the sounds of rain and traffic in the background.
