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shadowkat1. Sigh period started, with cramps. So apparently haven't completely ended them yet. In Menopause, since slowing down, but not finished. If that makes sense.
2. Completed typing in Chapter 9, have written 87,880 words and 198 pages of new novel. YAY.
Making progress when not distracted by youtube vids.
3. Have gotten fixated on the acting/filmmaking process in Buffy and other television series. The actors on these Youtube vids are very informative.
For instance?
* They don't remember specifics at all. They remember making the series and what it was like, but not specific scenes or character points. For some it is a complete blur.
* Marsters on sex scenes? "I really don't like doing them. I like sex. I just.. I think it is a private thing. And I don't like having people watch me doing it. But when you are, it's not sexy at all. And you really have to trust the person you are working with to make you feel safe. It's not unlike a fight scene. Also when you kiss someone, it's all about the lighting. So I really don't know what it is like to kiss them, because you have to make it look good. It's not sexy at all."
Amber Benson is nodding in complete agreement.
* Marsters and Brendan are asked what their single memory is of working on Buffy. "Pain." They both state. Marsters elaborates in two separate Q&A's "it was exhausting work. We were only supposed to work 18 days and that's it, but they'd stretch to 22, and splinter it off into separate shots and have us doing things we weren't supposed to be doing. So we'd work 12-24 hour days. Sarah worked the hardest, she was in every scene. Most shows don't do that. But they were ambitious."
"Also it wasn't just physically painful, it was emotionally and mentally painful too. I became terrified of what they'd have me do next. I used to worry about getting scripts. And be scared to death to read them."
Brendan nods in agreement. "Yep, Ditto. What he said about Pain."
Brendan states, " We weren't allowed to say anything that wasn't in the script. If we got a word wrong. Whedon would come up to us and say, yes, the emotion is on target, you delivered it well, but I have the word "the" in there for a reason."
He's right. I saw the making of Once More with Feeling. And he went up to Marsters and said, "it should be "whisper in a dead man's ear" not "whisper to a dead man's ear".
Apparently, Whedon got burned with the movie, and the actors changing up the lines. And swore NEVER again. Also remember he came from Roseanne. So when he got his own show, he made sure the actors said the lines as written. No improv.
Now if you know ANYTHING about acting -- that's really hard to do well.
Marsters: "People think acting is easy. Because we make it look that way. It's not."
No, it's hard. I was watching outtakes taken during S6. Boy that was a tough season.
Also, when they were asked if they ever get injured? "All the time." Apparently Marsters was crawling to and from a chiropractor after Angel completed. (Hmm, wondering if a chiropractor would help me out?)
Very happy I don't do that for a living. Also happy I'm not married to an actor.
2. Completed typing in Chapter 9, have written 87,880 words and 198 pages of new novel. YAY.
Making progress when not distracted by youtube vids.
3. Have gotten fixated on the acting/filmmaking process in Buffy and other television series. The actors on these Youtube vids are very informative.
For instance?
* They don't remember specifics at all. They remember making the series and what it was like, but not specific scenes or character points. For some it is a complete blur.
* Marsters on sex scenes? "I really don't like doing them. I like sex. I just.. I think it is a private thing. And I don't like having people watch me doing it. But when you are, it's not sexy at all. And you really have to trust the person you are working with to make you feel safe. It's not unlike a fight scene. Also when you kiss someone, it's all about the lighting. So I really don't know what it is like to kiss them, because you have to make it look good. It's not sexy at all."
Amber Benson is nodding in complete agreement.
* Marsters and Brendan are asked what their single memory is of working on Buffy. "Pain." They both state. Marsters elaborates in two separate Q&A's "it was exhausting work. We were only supposed to work 18 days and that's it, but they'd stretch to 22, and splinter it off into separate shots and have us doing things we weren't supposed to be doing. So we'd work 12-24 hour days. Sarah worked the hardest, she was in every scene. Most shows don't do that. But they were ambitious."
"Also it wasn't just physically painful, it was emotionally and mentally painful too. I became terrified of what they'd have me do next. I used to worry about getting scripts. And be scared to death to read them."
Brendan nods in agreement. "Yep, Ditto. What he said about Pain."
Brendan states, " We weren't allowed to say anything that wasn't in the script. If we got a word wrong. Whedon would come up to us and say, yes, the emotion is on target, you delivered it well, but I have the word "the" in there for a reason."
He's right. I saw the making of Once More with Feeling. And he went up to Marsters and said, "it should be "whisper in a dead man's ear" not "whisper to a dead man's ear".
Apparently, Whedon got burned with the movie, and the actors changing up the lines. And swore NEVER again. Also remember he came from Roseanne. So when he got his own show, he made sure the actors said the lines as written. No improv.
Now if you know ANYTHING about acting -- that's really hard to do well.
Marsters: "People think acting is easy. Because we make it look that way. It's not."
No, it's hard. I was watching outtakes taken during S6. Boy that was a tough season.
Also, when they were asked if they ever get injured? "All the time." Apparently Marsters was crawling to and from a chiropractor after Angel completed. (Hmm, wondering if a chiropractor would help me out?)
Very happy I don't do that for a living. Also happy I'm not married to an actor.