camera script

Director Martin Dennis designed and compiled the camera script on Saturday afternoons.

Having started the design ball rolling and given himself some idea of cast requirements, Barry moved on to his foremost task that of constructing the camera script.

'It meant a lot of work for the Director preparing his camera script because he had to know exactly where to put his cameras to get the shots he wanted.

The episode's camera script gives "Dalek Cutaway" as a description and a handwritten addition states "Serial T Episode 4" (which is the wrong number).

These "recons" are based on the directors' original camera scripts, and use a combination of the surviving soundtracks, surviving footage, photographs, still images (especially Cura's tele-snaps) and specially-recreated material.

I had arranged to meet Howard Imber, the writer, for a script conference over dinner at 8, and fell on to the bed intending to rest for ten minutes before reading through the thick camera script.

Perhaps because of the multiple authors and/or typists, virtually every conceivable variant of the title The Daleks' Master Plan was used in contemporary documents, though this version is on a plurality of camera scripts.

Nevertheless, uppermost in the minds of Verity Lambert and David Whitaker, as they read through their copies of the camera script, must be thoughts of how heads could roll if this story ultimately fails to make the grade.

OVERLEAF: An extract from the camera script of 'The Edge of Destruction' by David Whitaker; reproduced by permission of the BBC and David Whitaker's Estate.

However, it appears on Camfield's camera script and it was indeed common practice at the time for BBC shows to have a direct address to camera for a Christmas episode, whilst editing would have allowed for the removal of the line if necessary.