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When breaking down a script that contains intimate scenes, what should an agent flag for the producer, ADs, IC, costume, post and legal/contract teams, and which flags come from which source?

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Corrected 2026-10-24 - see C3-B1108-01; the original statements below are kept for history and are superseded where the correction says so. No single source gives an agent-ready breakdown template, but the pinned union documents together imply a flag list: scene identification (nudity or semi-nudity, sexual activity, other exposing factors), required roles (IC; stunt coordinator and IC where sexual violence is depicted), people involved (performers, background and doubles who appear nude, minors), contract dependencies (rider with script pages and body-part list, 48-hour delivery before call time), schedule and call-sheet items (IC on schedule and day-out-of-days, closed-set marking and crew list, start-of-day placement for sexual-violence scenes, rehearsal slots), cross-department items (costume, prosthetics, digital additions) and downstream flags (take usability for editors, promotion consent, retention). The list is synthesis; each flag cites a source statement.

No single source gives an agent-ready breakdown template, but the pinned union documents together imply a flag list: scene identification (nudity or semi-nudity, sexual activity, other exposing factors), required roles (IC; stunt coordinator and IC where sexual violence is depicted), people involved (performers, background and doubles who appear nude, minors), contract dependencies (rider with script pages and body-part list, 48-hour delivery before call time), schedule and call-sheet items (IC on schedule and day-out-of-days, closed-set marking and crew list, start-of-day placement for sexual-violence scenes, rehearsal slots), cross-department items (costume, prosthetics, digital additions) and downstream flags (take usability for editors, promotion consent, retention). The list is synthesis; each flag cites a source statement. Curator correction 2026-10-24 (discovery audit record C3-B1108-01, curator-reviewed C3R-0708; excerpts re-located by independent curator GET 2026-10-24): Correction. C3-B100-G36-04 (intimate-scene script-breakdown flags) tells an agent to emit "rider delivery date = call time minus 48 hours" as an unconditional flag, citing the SAG-AFTRA intimacy quick guide of October 2020 (its source S3). That same guide, which existed when the record was written, also says the 48-hour timeframe can be waived when a role is cast, or a performer replaced, less than 48 hours before call time. The record omitted that condition, so its flag was incomplete when written. An agent should flag the deadline together with the waiver condition. Current SAG-AFTRA pages and contract terms could not be fetched with curl (sagaftra.org refused automated requests), so no claim is made that the 2020 guide is still the current union position. Not a legal reading of any contract. Curator qualifications: All excerpts located; breakdown flag list implied by union documents (labelled synthesis). Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

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    {
      "url": "http://www.thecdg.co.uk/Secure/bectu-guidance-for-shooting-intimacy-october-2022.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.meaa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/MEAA-Intimacy-Guidelines-for-Stage-and-Screen.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.sagaftra.org/sites/default/files/sa_documents/SA_IntimacyCoord.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://deadline.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/SAG-AFTRA_quickguide_intimscenes.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.actratoronto.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Best_Practices_030520_web.pdf",
      "note": "candidate evidence excerpts"
    }
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Evidence claims

[sourced_fact] Curator correction 2026-10-24 (discovery audit record C3-B1108-01, curator-reviewed C3R-0708; excerpts re-located by independent curator GET 2026-10-24): Correction. C3-B100-G36-04 (intimate-scene script-breakdown flags) tells an agent to emit "rider delivery date = call time minus 48 hours" as an unconditional flag, citing the SAG-AFTRA intimacy quick guide of October 2020 (its source S3). That same guide, which existed when the record was written, also says the 48-hour timeframe can be waived when a role is cast, or a performer replaced, less than 48 hours before call time. The record omitted that condition, so its flag was incomplete when written. An agent should flag the deadline together with the waiver condition. Current SAG-AFTRA pages and contract terms could not be fetched with curl (sagaftra.org refused automated requests), so no claim is made that the 2020 guide is still the current union position. Not a legal reading of any contract. · locator: curator correction paragraph in this record body (C3-B1108-01) source
[inference] SUPERSEDED IN PART 2026-10-24 by curator correction C3-B1108-01 (see the correction claim above); original kept for history: No single source gives an agent-ready breakdown template, but the pinned union documents together imply a flag list: scene identification (nudity or semi-nudity, sexual activity, other exposing factors), required roles (IC; stunt coordinator and IC where sexual violence is depicted), people involved (performers, background and doubles who appear nude, minors), contract dependencies (rider with script pages and body-part list, 48-hour delivery before call time), schedule and call-sheet items (IC on schedule and day-out-of-days, closed-set marking and crew list, start-of-day placement for sexual-violence scenes, rehearsal slots), cross-department items (costume, prosthetics, digital additions) and downstream flags (take usability for editors, promotion consent, retention). The list is synthesis; each flag cites a source statement. · locator: candidate evidence excerpts source

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