Erica Harrell
Producer

The script supervisor, as confirmed by Wikipedia.com is ” a member of a film crew responsible for maintaining the film’s internal continuity and for marking the production unit’s daily progress in shooting the film’s screenplay. In the most basic description, the script supervisor is the editor’s and writer’s representative on set, as well as being the right hand aide to the director and the director of photography. It is the script supervisor’s job to make sure that at the end of the day the film can be cut together. In that sense, they back up every department, monitor the script during shooting and make sure that errors in continuity do not occur that would prevent the film from being able to be compiled in the editing room.”

Carmen Tabanyi, is the A Monster in the Attic script supervisor and I cannot say enough how awesome she is! Carmen interacts with Danny, Adam our second assistant camera, actors, and Scott our DP. She has really saved the films continuity numerous times, by fixing an out of place hair, or making sure a milk glass has just the right amount in it to cut together.
Carmen tracks the actors eye-lines, so when a conversation is cut together it cuts seamlessly. For instance if Madison was looking down in the frame when she was supposed to be looking at Jake that conversation would look funny and be distracting to an audience. Another job that Carmen does is daily production reports so the production team can track the progress of the film being made. Daily I know how many scenes and pages we complete and how many pages and scenes we have left to shoot.

Aside from all the important production work that Carmen does, she also keeps our crew entertained. She is absolutely wonderful to work with. Danny and I are really lucky to have Carmen and I am sure our editor will love her because she is doing a great job at keeping track of A Monster in the Attic. Also after her work on A Monster in the Attic, Carmen will be able to join Local 871 the Script Supervisor Union…. Congratulations and Thank you Carmen!!!!