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They’re gonna put me in the movies
They’re gonna make a big star out of me
Nope. I got a film industry job, but it wasn’t as an actor.
I got the job of Continuity.
35 words written for Sammi’s Weekend Prompt: Continuity
Continuity is responsible for ensuring all those tiny seemingly unimportant details in a scene match up, take after take after take. I once thought it a dream of a job.
crispina kemp 
Ah, you’d be so good at that! With your eye for detail, there are few people I know who’d be better 🙂 I used to want to be a researcher, though mainly because I imagined it involved leafing through books for a living.
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This comes from an incident when I was at school. Our English teacher said, I want you all to be Continuity Girls (as was then the term). And I was the only one who knew what it meant. Yea, most of my working life has involved very close attention to detail.
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I didn’t know that was a job – was the “coffee cup in Game of Thrones” a failure of continuity?
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Yep. That and all those times an actor’s hair changes style and, the wrong number of buttons are done up etc etc. Oh, the disappearing plot plant used to be a favouite. And the roses that start off in full bloom, and then are suddenly only on bud
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Hahaha – I bet they use plastic flowers in movie sets so they can’t have different bloom states in scenes.
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More likely to be silk flowers, they look more natural
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This is good.
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Thank you. A bit of fun 🙂
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That’s needed. 😍
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Yea, agreed. It is my avowed attempt to keep it light 🙂
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🙏🙏🙏
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Yea, and having pledged that I’ve just scheduled a post for tomorrow which isn’t entirely light.
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Everything cannot be hilarious. We need to talk serious stuff Too
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Yea, but having written it, I’m now hesitant. I may not post it
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You are the best judge of it.
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I slept on it. I’m going to post, but in slightly different form
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That’s good.
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And have done so 🙂
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It’s a great idea.
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Thank you 🙂
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You’re welcome 😉
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Excellent take on this, Crispina! Only you would go this route.
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Yep, that’s me. Unique. Weird. Eccentric…
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All wonderful characteristics…
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OK, I cede the point
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Smart woman 😉
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We live and we learn. Now what song does that come from????
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Hmmm. There are a few…
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When I remember it…. somewhere it’s on one of my playlists, which means it’s not a recent song
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Like I said, there are a few songs out there with that title – I looked on YouTube 😉
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Got it. Pat Benetar, All Fired Up. Knew it was on one of my playlists. Titled Dance Workout.
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I really like this!
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Thank you, Susan. A bit of frippery 🙂
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Ohh, I love this. Brilliant! This is short and crisp, exactly what I love!
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That you. The challenge was to do it in 35 words. And it came out just right.
In case it’s less familiar to you, the opening lines come from a Beatles sonng (Act Naturally) song by Ringo Star
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Tough Job! Continuity 🙂 Nice take!
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My English teacher suggested it as a possible career for me.
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She must have liked you and knew you could handle it. So many details! Some can’t see.
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Something to do with my writing, I think 🙂
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So she knew instinctively you’d be a writer. Nice.
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She had confiscated some of my fiction writing that was circulating the upper school 🙂
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Okay. I’ll bite! Why confiscated?
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A bit risquee.
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I should’ve known. No need for details.
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I had been inspired to *write in the style of*… an adult book. It wasn’t graphic. Just spicey.
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No comment
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🙂
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A very important job! There are so many jobs in the movies that are just as important as the ones that get noticed!
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These days they tend to get listed… those endless credits. But back in the day, an unsung hero
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