Good morning PAs!
If you are one of the lucky few to be working in the Production Office, you will be close friends with the copy machine. You will also likely have a strong relationship with the WB Mason delivery guy.
The most time consuming, tedious copy job usually comes when the writer does a rewrite. The original draft is on white three hole punched paper. It's held together with a medium sized "brads" (seen above - Staples calls these "Brass Fasteners"). When the rewrite comes along, you:
1) Copy only the new pages onto blue three hole punched paper. Make enough copies for every member of the crew.
2) Remove the matching pages from all the white scripts and replace with new blue pages (this is script collating).
3) Count every single page of every single script to make sure you didn't mess up.
Once these are distributed and you're feeling good about yourself, there will be another rewrite. This time, it goes on pink three hole punched paper. Repeat the process from above. Then, inevitably, another rewrite -- this time on yellow three hole punched paper. And so on until the film wraps.
The page colors can vary from production to production, but typically are something like:
White... Blue... Pink... Yellow... Green... Gold/Goldenrod... Buff... Salmon... Cherry... Tan... Double White... Double Blue... Double Pink... (pray it never gets this far). Sometimes Gray and/or Ivory come before we hit the Doubles. Buff and Tan look similar, so be careful with those. All these colors are available at Staples.
The worst we have personally seen is Double Blue... not telling which local production did that, but let's just say 12 rewrites during production made for a terrible film.
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