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shadowkat1. Okay...these fandom fanfic challenges gave me pause....and made me grin with amusement.
* Feast of Ass Day - Create fanworks about any combination of characters, fannish or original, engaging in a little anilingus or rimming. As opposed to trimming.
* Herebedragonsex - although the decription of the challenge isn't quite that racy.
I was kind of disappointed that herebedragonsex is really just about about dragons.
2. Soap Twitter decided that an actor from GH had been fired solely based on the activity or lack there of on his Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Sam&WillowFan: He's stopped following all his castmates on Instagram and Twitter! So he must have been fired!
A Sarpa: Poll
a) Do you stop following your co-workers on social media if you leave your job
b) do you keep following them
c) did you follow them to begin with
Me: C, I don't follow co-workers on social media, are you nuts? Only nutty actors and politicians do that.
Goes to check Actors social media accounts. And discovers that not only is he still following his co-workers, he has two different accounts. But the fandom on ST is convinced he's been fired. Not only that? They are arguing over who his replacement should be.
3. Found BTVS S6 Episode Wrecked Dallies on Youtube - Dallies are basically all the filmed takes from a scene in a television show or film. And dear god, they redid the scene where Buffy and Spike wake up in the torn down building after their sex-a-thon in Smashed - about fifty times. After a certain point both actors start to forget their lines. They do it. Cut. They do it again. Cut. They do it again. Cut. At a certain point, both actors are panting as if they've run a couple of marathons, are giggling and breaking character.
I can sympathize. At my job - I send something in. They rewrite it. Send it back. Then rewrite it again. Send it back. Ask me to rewrite it again. Send it to them. Then again.
Buffy went for 20 hour days because of that. Angel was only 12 hour days. Buffy broke the rules - because Whedon was a brutal perfectionist.
Those poor actors. You don't do that in theater. It's why actors have more control over their performance on the stage. They get up there - and there's no one shouting cut, telling them how to say their line, where to go. Etc. It's just the actor, their fellow actors, and the audience, everyone else slips away. It's why I love the theater. Sure you get notes, and the writer/director will tell you how to improve or change your performance they next night - but it's still just you and the audience.
It's why most actors prefer the stage - they are in control. On television - they don't get to pick the shot or take - which is usually out of millions.
Soap operas are hard in some respects, but easier in others. There's usually just one or two takes on a soap - and often the first take is the best. And in that respect daytime soaps are more like theater - because you go, you get one take, you move to the next. But unlike theater, you film it all out of order.
That's another thing about television and film - they often film the episodes and scenes out of order. So the actors treat each scene as a little one act play.
Television acting is not always easy. It's actually easier in the procedurals like Bones, Castle, Law & Order, because the characters don't change that much and they know what is expected in each episode, it won't vary. But for more serialized dramas - it's very hard, because they don't know, and there's more takes.
ETA: They have ALL the Buffy S6 dallies up. That's insane. I've never seen the ones for the other episodes, and other scenes. Watching a couple of them from Gone, Dead Things, Smashed, and various bits from Wrecked...filming Buffy was really hard. They redid five or three minute scenes 5-10 times from multiple angles, and close ups. After a certain point the actors start cursing and flubbing lines, and giggling. They are toast.
I can't believe they allowed folks to put all the dallies up. OR that people could. How did they get a hold of it?
Buffy Dallies Youtube
* Feast of Ass Day - Create fanworks about any combination of characters, fannish or original, engaging in a little anilingus or rimming. As opposed to trimming.
* Herebedragonsex - although the decription of the challenge isn't quite that racy.
I was kind of disappointed that herebedragonsex is really just about about dragons.
2. Soap Twitter decided that an actor from GH had been fired solely based on the activity or lack there of on his Twitter and Instagram accounts.
Sam&WillowFan: He's stopped following all his castmates on Instagram and Twitter! So he must have been fired!
A Sarpa: Poll
a) Do you stop following your co-workers on social media if you leave your job
b) do you keep following them
c) did you follow them to begin with
Me: C, I don't follow co-workers on social media, are you nuts? Only nutty actors and politicians do that.
Goes to check Actors social media accounts. And discovers that not only is he still following his co-workers, he has two different accounts. But the fandom on ST is convinced he's been fired. Not only that? They are arguing over who his replacement should be.
3. Found BTVS S6 Episode Wrecked Dallies on Youtube - Dallies are basically all the filmed takes from a scene in a television show or film. And dear god, they redid the scene where Buffy and Spike wake up in the torn down building after their sex-a-thon in Smashed - about fifty times. After a certain point both actors start to forget their lines. They do it. Cut. They do it again. Cut. They do it again. Cut. At a certain point, both actors are panting as if they've run a couple of marathons, are giggling and breaking character.
I can sympathize. At my job - I send something in. They rewrite it. Send it back. Then rewrite it again. Send it back. Ask me to rewrite it again. Send it to them. Then again.
Buffy went for 20 hour days because of that. Angel was only 12 hour days. Buffy broke the rules - because Whedon was a brutal perfectionist.
Those poor actors. You don't do that in theater. It's why actors have more control over their performance on the stage. They get up there - and there's no one shouting cut, telling them how to say their line, where to go. Etc. It's just the actor, their fellow actors, and the audience, everyone else slips away. It's why I love the theater. Sure you get notes, and the writer/director will tell you how to improve or change your performance they next night - but it's still just you and the audience.
It's why most actors prefer the stage - they are in control. On television - they don't get to pick the shot or take - which is usually out of millions.
Soap operas are hard in some respects, but easier in others. There's usually just one or two takes on a soap - and often the first take is the best. And in that respect daytime soaps are more like theater - because you go, you get one take, you move to the next. But unlike theater, you film it all out of order.
That's another thing about television and film - they often film the episodes and scenes out of order. So the actors treat each scene as a little one act play.
Television acting is not always easy. It's actually easier in the procedurals like Bones, Castle, Law & Order, because the characters don't change that much and they know what is expected in each episode, it won't vary. But for more serialized dramas - it's very hard, because they don't know, and there's more takes.
ETA: They have ALL the Buffy S6 dallies up. That's insane. I've never seen the ones for the other episodes, and other scenes. Watching a couple of them from Gone, Dead Things, Smashed, and various bits from Wrecked...filming Buffy was really hard. They redid five or three minute scenes 5-10 times from multiple angles, and close ups. After a certain point the actors start cursing and flubbing lines, and giggling. They are toast.
I can't believe they allowed folks to put all the dallies up. OR that people could. How did they get a hold of it?
Buffy Dallies Youtube
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Date: 2022-12-14 05:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-14 05:26 pm (UTC)That's why they went over and did 18-20 hour days, and weekends, when most television is 9-12 hour days if that. Because most do it the way you stated above.
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Date: 2022-12-17 03:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-14 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-12-15 01:44 am (UTC)Also, it made me feel less upset about redoing stuff at work. I mean rewriting and re-editing a paper is nothing compared to re-shooting a scene where I'm naked or have to kiss someone fifteen times.