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fandomhigh2009-03-09 04:41 am
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So You Want to Make a TV Show- 2nd Period- Class #9
Dana didn't worry about things like hellos this week. She'd lost an hour and was still paying for it. 'Hello' could suck it, her extra words saved were her way of getting some time back. "Last week I gave you all cameras? I hope you used them, and moreso I hope you brought them back."
Once the footage had been handed in, Dana let everyone reload with new tapes and said, "And today what we're going to be directing. You should all probably know what that is. The director is the one who gets the pretty credit where everyone goes 'Oh, he or she is the person who put this all together.' Now, you're going to find that there are really different types of directors. A television director has different responsibilities than someone who works on film who is different than someone who works on stage. Even in TV, live television is going to be different than filming a sitcom. And even when you're filming a sitcom, things change depending on whether you use a live audience or not, and I'm so glad you can't tell when they do that because I don't need a laugh track, I know when to laugh, thanks. Or maybe they still do it and I just haven't cared. Whichever.
What you're going to be doing is filming each other. It's very simple. You may have even gotten practice at it last week. You're going to point a camera and practice bossing each other around. This is something an episodic television show director does more than someone who's doing a sports show, but we're going to be dealing with our stuff more later anyway and I'm sure most of you already have ideas in your head of what you think you should do so let's get that out of your systems. One person will talk. It doesn't matter what you recite; you can write your own, you can choose a monologue from one of these books up here at my desk... I don't care what you say, that's not the point. Whoever's directing is going to be telling you how to stand, make sure you're in frame, keep others out of the shots if you don't want them there, and make sure things look the way you want them to, along with making sure the person who's talking at you cooperates. Which is usually the hardest part, so have fun with that."
Once the footage had been handed in, Dana let everyone reload with new tapes and said, "And today what we're going to be directing. You should all probably know what that is. The director is the one who gets the pretty credit where everyone goes 'Oh, he or she is the person who put this all together.' Now, you're going to find that there are really different types of directors. A television director has different responsibilities than someone who works on film who is different than someone who works on stage. Even in TV, live television is going to be different than filming a sitcom. And even when you're filming a sitcom, things change depending on whether you use a live audience or not, and I'm so glad you can't tell when they do that because I don't need a laugh track, I know when to laugh, thanks. Or maybe they still do it and I just haven't cared. Whichever.
What you're going to be doing is filming each other. It's very simple. You may have even gotten practice at it last week. You're going to point a camera and practice bossing each other around. This is something an episodic television show director does more than someone who's doing a sports show, but we're going to be dealing with our stuff more later anyway and I'm sure most of you already have ideas in your head of what you think you should do so let's get that out of your systems. One person will talk. It doesn't matter what you recite; you can write your own, you can choose a monologue from one of these books up here at my desk... I don't care what you say, that's not the point. Whoever's directing is going to be telling you how to stand, make sure you're in frame, keep others out of the shots if you don't want them there, and make sure things look the way you want them to, along with making sure the person who's talking at you cooperates. Which is usually the hardest part, so have fun with that."
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At least she remembered the assignment?
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handwaveyJeff-rant about a jangled mash involving what basically boiled down to how nipples would save the world from gelatinous monkey creatures, and then ten minutes of what happens when you program Liz the robot guard dog at the store to attack Apu and the poor man's attempt to beat it away with a mop and prayers to Krishna.It was just about the best tape ever.
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"Hello, I'm Robin, your Muppet on the Street, and I'm talking to Christopher Columbus."
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