Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.40.0112130042250.26346-100000@panix2.panix.com>
From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: CYBERMIND@LISTSERV.AOL.COM
Subject: Take of the Continuity Girl
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 00:42:42 -0500
- Take of the Continuity Girl The continuity girl wears a big baggy sweater and carries a clipboard and Polaroid camera. She walks among the naked actors and actress and takes notes, whose hand is where, which face is turned towards - and which away from - the camera. this is amazing. whose finger has a torn nail - whose breasts already damp - the degree of nipple erection (easy here) - all of this is carefully noted by the continuity girl. There is sweat running from a shoulder. The terrorist has his knife to a neck from the left - no, from the right - side; "R" appears almost by command on the continuity chart. Is this the numbered scene, the only scene - the continuity girl knows, takes everything into account. She writes "Alan is gagged tightly, he is having trouble breathing. If he suffocates, this will be the only take." She writes "n/g" as the gag is loosened. Azure has been shaved, head to toe; Azure is constantly shuddering. The continuity girl writes "Azure moves - lock structure in edit - there is no room for error - there is nothing but error." The continuity girl notes the bruises and bites on four, on five, breasts. She notes, "Day 3." She notes, "This is the second day." It is the goal of the continuity girl to make sure the world is whole, to make sure it remains contained, coherent, logical beneath the chaos the rest of us take for granted. _