Amen. History as it happened, credit where credit is due. If a bunch of white male nerds saved the day, let them be the heros for heaven's sake.
A few complainers give the rest of us women a bad name.
Now they don't even have to steal my passport before they can use all my info. That's an improvement. If I get a new passport, I think I'll carry it in an aluminum foil pouch.
More likely the other way around. Film crews are armed with gaffer tape, heavy blunt instruments, high powered generators, and other impedimentia. And of course, assistants trained to protect the equipment at any cost.
Well, as long as they really do use gaffer tape and not duct tape, I'm good with it. Gaffer tape has saved my sorry rear on many occasions, and not just for taping things. I have used it as clothes patches, props, ankle braces, hair ties, and rope among other things. It should definitely be taken on any trip to space. I personally believe it was Scotty's secret stash of gaffer tape that saved the Enterprise on so many occasions. Gaffer tape could hold the universe together!
I just wish a 2ndAC had time for computer work. Actually I tended to get more tired about four in the morning, when I was just finishing cleaning and putting away the equipment, unloading and reloading the magazines, labeling the film cans, and running them up three flights to the secretary's office for shipping.
But it's quite true, I was responsible for bringing the toilet paper for the port-a-johns when we were on location.
Well, if your script calls for something you can't acquire, maybe you should just change the script. I had to do that multiple times. Granted, getting the sets/locations one needs is difficult for a student project (unless your dad's a millionaire or you have very good connections) but it doesn't help your film any to blame the drag on inadequate sets. If they were that inadequate, you shouldn't have used them in the first place.
While special effects programs can give you the backgrounds you may need for a particular scene, you then have the problem that you will most likely be working with student actors who do not have much experience and will certainly not be used to doing greenscreen work. CG tends to also be more time consuming for student projects, because as students, you will just be learning the software as you need to use it.
There are problems either way - technology does not solve all problems, it merely changes the ones you have to deal with. Production, our teachers told us repeatedly, is all about problem solving. Two big rules are KISS and "If it's simple and it works, it ain't stupid." Some people will be able to solve the problem with sets, others with CG. The issue is not the problem, but whether it is solved effectively. The audience doesn't care that you couldn't find just the location you needed or that you didn't have the software you needed - all they care about is whether the film was any good.
I work for a small production company. While we have a fair sized group of mid-twenties gaffers, and grips, and PA's to do the "grunt work", the core people never fail to amaze me. Our still photographer is in his mid-sixties, an avid hiker, and runs two miles a day on his lunch break. Our senior engineer is also in his sixties, and was out lugging cables in the woods last summer dispite a knee replacement two months previously. Our DP is over seventy, and can lug fully loaded film camera cases further than I, a mid-twenties 2ndAC, can. Our Director, in his early sixties, has been known to climb trees, carry arc lights up small mountains, and help push a stuck generator trailer out of three inch deep mud. They can also work longer nights than we young'uns can, and be fresher and more alert while the rest of us are stumbling around like zombies. Fit senior citizens are not to be ignored, IMHO.
I agree. Classic Legos are best. Don't give your kids pre-made video game worlds - let them build their own worlds. It boosts imagination and creativity.
Man - I saw that when I was a kid... did I ever want to go to camp the next summer! But my inner geek told me not to be silly (being a geek while young cuts down on some day-dreaming) so I started going to/. instead.
*sighs and increases bandwidth payments*
does anyone have a link to an online book version of HHGG? There was one posted last time a HHGG article was on/. but I haven't been able to find the site again.
I agree. More "real" characters, less stereotypes. Extremes are funny for a while, but they get old. Let's have some more of those good old moral dilemmas and "Star Fleet will have my head if this doesn't work - well, it's the only way. Let's do it." And balance - that's what TOS really had. There was balance between Spock and McCoy, not just two opposites fighting for our amusement - balance between Kirk's personal and professional worlds - balance in the portrayal of alien races (does straight ungliness really give them anything more than shock value?). More original stories, less rehashes of TOS stories. Bring back the Shakespeare!
catbertscousin
"We committed the ultimate sin... One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves as gods." - Sargon
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Amen. History as it happened, credit where credit is due. If a bunch of white male nerds saved the day, let them be the heros for heaven's sake. A few complainers give the rest of us women a bad name.
Now they don't even have to steal my passport before they can use all my info. That's an improvement. If I get a new passport, I think I'll carry it in an aluminum foil pouch.
I'm sure they will welcome their new LINUX overlords...
More likely the other way around. Film crews are armed with gaffer tape, heavy blunt instruments, high powered generators, and other impedimentia. And of course, assistants trained to protect the equipment at any cost.
And we're much less picky about our food...
Well, as long as they really do use gaffer tape and not duct tape, I'm good with it. Gaffer tape has saved my sorry rear on many occasions, and not just for taping things. I have used it as clothes patches, props, ankle braces, hair ties, and rope among other things. It should definitely be taken on any trip to space. I personally believe it was Scotty's secret stash of gaffer tape that saved the Enterprise on so many occasions. Gaffer tape could hold the universe together!
Anyone have a favorite gaffer tape story?
...can I PLEASE use the internet now?
I just wish a 2ndAC had time for computer work. Actually I tended to get more tired about four in the morning, when I was just finishing cleaning and putting away the equipment, unloading and reloading the magazines, labeling the film cans, and running them up three flights to the secretary's office for shipping.
But it's quite true, I was responsible for bringing the toilet paper for the port-a-johns when we were on location.
Well, if your script calls for something you can't acquire, maybe you should just change the script. I had to do that multiple times. Granted, getting the sets/locations one needs is difficult for a student project (unless your dad's a millionaire or you have very good connections) but it doesn't help your film any to blame the drag on inadequate sets. If they were that inadequate, you shouldn't have used them in the first place.
While special effects programs can give you the backgrounds you may need for a particular scene, you then have the problem that you will most likely be working with student actors who do not have much experience and will certainly not be used to doing greenscreen work. CG tends to also be more time consuming for student projects, because as students, you will just be learning the software as you need to use it.
There are problems either way - technology does not solve all problems, it merely changes the ones you have to deal with. Production, our teachers told us repeatedly, is all about problem solving. Two big rules are KISS and "If it's simple and it works, it ain't stupid." Some people will be able to solve the problem with sets, others with CG. The issue is not the problem, but whether it is solved effectively. The audience doesn't care that you couldn't find just the location you needed or that you didn't have the software you needed - all they care about is whether the film was any good.
I work for a small production company. While we have a fair sized group of mid-twenties gaffers, and grips, and PA's to do the "grunt work", the core people never fail to amaze me. Our still photographer is in his mid-sixties, an avid hiker, and runs two miles a day on his lunch break. Our senior engineer is also in his sixties, and was out lugging cables in the woods last summer dispite a knee replacement two months previously. Our DP is over seventy, and can lug fully loaded film camera cases further than I, a mid-twenties 2ndAC, can. Our Director, in his early sixties, has been known to climb trees, carry arc lights up small mountains, and help push a stuck generator trailer out of three inch deep mud. They can also work longer nights than we young'uns can, and be fresher and more alert while the rest of us are stumbling around like zombies. Fit senior citizens are not to be ignored, IMHO.
I agree. Classic Legos are best. Don't give your kids pre-made video game worlds - let them build their own worlds. It boosts imagination and creativity.
Maybe it's just me, but I still think it sounds strange to have a Final Fantasy VII - I guess the first one wasn't so final after all.
So... it's like a jump drive you can boot from?
Man - I saw that when I was a kid... did I ever want to go to camp the next summer! But my inner geek told me not to be silly (being a geek while young cuts down on some day-dreaming) so I started going to /. instead.
*sighs and increases bandwidth payments*
does anyone have a link to an online book version of HHGG? There was one posted last time a HHGG article was on /. but I haven't been able to find the site again.
And then the weasels ate my karma...
I agree. More "real" characters, less stereotypes. Extremes are funny for a while, but they get old. Let's have some more of those good old moral dilemmas and "Star Fleet will have my head if this doesn't work - well, it's the only way. Let's do it." And balance - that's what TOS really had. There was balance between Spock and McCoy, not just two opposites fighting for our amusement - balance between Kirk's personal and professional worlds - balance in the portrayal of alien races (does straight ungliness really give them anything more than shock value?). More original stories, less rehashes of TOS stories. Bring back the Shakespeare!
catbertscousin
"We committed the ultimate sin... One day our minds became so powerful we dared think of ourselves as gods." - Sargon