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Script Supervising
As with most people on a film set, script supervisors are self-employed. It was once true that script supervisors hired by large productions would be given all of their required tools. That is no longer the case. Now, script supervisors must own all of their own tools including stopwatches, stands to put your papers on, cameras for continuity photos, and scanners for scanning handwritten documents. This change came about when independent film studios started to make more films than the major film studio s (Miller, 2013, p. 9-10).

When script supervisors were first brought in to be part of the film crew, the role was usually divided into two parts, the continuity clerk and the script girl. Now, both of those roles are encompassed under the more inclusive, script supervisor. Even during the male dominated years of cinema, the script supervisor was much more commonly a woman. Still today, there are more women who are script supervisors than men (Williams, 2013, p. 604).

Reference List
Miller, P. P. (2013). Script supervising and film continuity (3rd ed.). Focal Press.

Williams, M. (2013). The continuity girl: Ice in the middle of fire. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 10(3), 603-617. DOI: 10.3366/jbctv.2013.0160