by Anne Marie Murphy | Script Clearance
A new-ish producer called for information last week and asked a question I don’t often hear: “How do you do the work on a clearance report?” Well, here’s how we don’t do the work. At a client visit a few years ago with a room full of that...
by Anne Marie Murphy | Script Clearance
“What’s in a name?” Shakespeare famously had Juliet say. And while she then spoke of the changeability of words to express true love (smells and roses and all that), we’re sure her real concern was for the poor souls in script clearance whose job it is to sniff out...
by Anne Marie Murphy | Script Clearance
We recently refined the language that is at the header of the “Dialogue References” section of our script clearance reports. For a novice especially it’s a confusing section of a clearance report; what are you supposed to do about those comments? Here’s...
by Anne Marie Murphy | Script Clearance
Clearance report clients hire us to read their scripts and use our experience to tell them that story elements are “clear” or “not clear.” Seeing the words “Consider clear for use” throughout the report means no clearance-triggered...
by Anne Marie Murphy | Script Clearance
CBC News interviewed The Shape of Water’s production designer Paul Austerberry in early March 2018 about his work on the recent Oscar winner. His job, according to Leva Lucs of the CBC “was to transform some of Toronto’s most well-known landmarks...
by Anne Marie Murphy | Script Clearance
Ours… We aim to provide 3 clear alternatives for anything that doesn’t clear the gauntlet of sources in our reports. If we couldn’t come up with 3, that means we tried long and hard and only came up with 2. Dreaming up and researching those alternatives...
