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fandomhigh2020-05-15 09:07 am
1000yearstoolate) wrote in fandomhigh2020-05-15 09:07 am
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How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment, Friday
To say that this was going to be interesting felt like a gross understatement, but Amaya was definitely intrigued to see exactly which sort of direction that 'interesting' was about to take.
"Hello, everyone," she said, greeting the students (and the very attentive and shamelessly modded TA) with a nod, "and welcome to 'How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment.' Odds are, if you know what that is already, you know exactly what you're about to be in for, but there's a good chance you have no idea what that means, in which case, I'm going to leave explaining that to one of the two Radchaai in this room to do the actual explaining. Seivarden?"
Seivarden agreed with the interesting.
"You might be familiar with Earth movies. They are similar to Radchaai entertainments, although they usually make less sense, and are occasionally disturbing. A Radchaai entertainment includes drama, political intrigue, romance, adventure." She made a gesture with her hand. "Characters that you love or hate. Epic spaceship battles."
Here she glanced at Amaya to make sure she had noticed that last bit, and to see if she had anything to add to that description.
Oh, she'd noticed, as was indicated on the big grin on her face (which had appeared just in time to swipe away a less pleased expression at a certain other part of the description).
"The spaceship battles," she added, in a sort of whisper toward the students that was obviously intended to not be much of a whisper at all, "are the best parts."
"Depending on your taste," Seivarden added. "As we're going to make a whole entertainment, we're going to need the other parts too."
"Of course," Amaya agreed with a nod. "And those boring parts just make the good parts that much better! You'll see what we mean; today, we're going to watch a good example, one that has a little bit of everything you'd expect from a good Radchaai entertainment. And, in the following classes, we'll be slowly putting together our own: characters, plot, costuming and sets, and special effects, before we put it all together for the final project."
With two people who had never made a movie before in their lives. One of whom only even knew of movies once she got here. But they were very, very passionate about movies. For some reason.
"Also," Amaya added, with a nod and a statement that was about to unintentionally kill their TA before they even got things started, "we're lucky to have another Radchaai on hand as our TA to help with the finer details, being Radchaai herself, so hopefully Tisarwat's expertise can be put to good use, as well."
Seivarden smiled at Tisarwat, and was a little relieved to have someone else on board whom she was sure didn't mind things that weren't explosions.
"We have a few exciting weeks ahead of us," she said. "So let's get started with watching a good example."
"Hello, everyone," she said, greeting the students (and the very attentive and shamelessly modded TA) with a nod, "and welcome to 'How to Make a Radchaai Entertainment.' Odds are, if you know what that is already, you know exactly what you're about to be in for, but there's a good chance you have no idea what that means, in which case, I'm going to leave explaining that to one of the two Radchaai in this room to do the actual explaining. Seivarden?"
Seivarden agreed with the interesting.
"You might be familiar with Earth movies. They are similar to Radchaai entertainments, although they usually make less sense, and are occasionally disturbing. A Radchaai entertainment includes drama, political intrigue, romance, adventure." She made a gesture with her hand. "Characters that you love or hate. Epic spaceship battles."
Here she glanced at Amaya to make sure she had noticed that last bit, and to see if she had anything to add to that description.
Oh, she'd noticed, as was indicated on the big grin on her face (which had appeared just in time to swipe away a less pleased expression at a certain other part of the description).
"The spaceship battles," she added, in a sort of whisper toward the students that was obviously intended to not be much of a whisper at all, "are the best parts."
"Depending on your taste," Seivarden added. "As we're going to make a whole entertainment, we're going to need the other parts too."
"Of course," Amaya agreed with a nod. "And those boring parts just make the good parts that much better! You'll see what we mean; today, we're going to watch a good example, one that has a little bit of everything you'd expect from a good Radchaai entertainment. And, in the following classes, we'll be slowly putting together our own: characters, plot, costuming and sets, and special effects, before we put it all together for the final project."
With two people who had never made a movie before in their lives. One of whom only even knew of movies once she got here. But they were very, very passionate about movies. For some reason.
"Also," Amaya added, with a nod and a statement that was about to unintentionally kill their TA before they even got things started, "we're lucky to have another Radchaai on hand as our TA to help with the finer details, being Radchaai herself, so hopefully Tisarwat's expertise can be put to good use, as well."
Seivarden smiled at Tisarwat, and was a little relieved to have someone else on board whom she was sure didn't mind things that weren't explosions.
"We have a few exciting weeks ahead of us," she said. "So let's get started with watching a good example."
Re: Introductions
Yes. Even
WaterworldAquaplanet. And don't even get him started aboutThe PostmanThe Mailman.Re: Introductions
"And who is that?"
Just to point out that Wayne couldn't just assume people would know.
Re: Introductions
Which meant Seivarden was going to earn herself one furrowed and one lifted brow for a good long second before he said, "Why doncha go rent yerself a copy of
Dances With WolvesPrances with Puppers and figgur it ouwt fer yerself, there, big shoots."She'd be doing herself a favor if she, that was fer damn sure!
Re: Introductions
"I'm sure it's terribly exciting," Seivarden said sarcastically. "Hopefully you'll like today's entertainment too."
Re: Introductions
"Guess we'll wait an' see," said Wayne, who felt there was already far too much movie-watchin' and sittin' going on in this school as it was, but he figured if he just got through this first lesson, they'd be on to actually doin' stuff here, soon enough, though he still wasn't entirely sure what that doin' stuff was gonna entail.