"windowwasher" <windowwasher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "William George Ferguson" <wmgfrgsn@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:26:43 GMT, "windowwasher"
>> <windowwasher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> wrote:
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>>>
>>>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> However, movies have *much* longer lead times than TV shows do, which
>>>> is why X-Files 2 remains unaffected. The script was complete, so
they
>>>> can film it, conversely, the turnover time for television scripts is
>>>> so quick that most shows have only 2-3 more episodes to film before
>>>> they run out of scripts, but they've also already finished shooting
>>>> around 3 episodes yet to air besides the 2-3 more that they can
shoot,
>>>> so most series are going to have another 5-6 episodes air before the
>>>> strike imposes a hiatus due to lack of scripts. Fortunately, the
>>>> timing coincides more or less with regular winter hiatus anyway, so
>>>> while TV hasn't been able to bank hardly any scripts, the truth of
the
>>>> matter is that the filming schedule won't really be disrupted until
>>>> the cast & crew would normally come back after winter hiatus to start
>>>> filming new episodes that won't have been written.
>>>>
>>
>>>Aren't scripts often rewritten as shooting commences/occurs? What's the
>>>effect of the strike on rewrites/edits?
>>>
>>
>> The DGA contract requires that scripts be made available to the
director
>> a
>> minimum of two weeks before the episode is to be start shooting (to
give
>> the director prep time). The guild actually cracked down on the worst
>> offenders of that (including the West Wing) a couple of years ago.
>>
>> Rewrites are WGA work, and so are out, edits (prior to or while
shooting)
>> are director work (or editors work after shooting) and so are still in
>> (just because a writer wrote some dialogue doesn't mean the actor has
to
>> say it).
>>
>>
>> --
>> "Oh Buffy, you really do need to have
>> every square inch of your ass kicked."
>> - Willow Rosenberg
>
> Thanks for the info.
WGA provides for script fine tuning during a strike as well. Basically, if
it was finished before the strike the writer can work on it and get paid
for
that work, but if it wasn't finished before the strike hit then any
subsequent work on it is frozen until the strike is worked out.
I suspect this strike was one of the reasons for the 6 episode mini-season
of Jericho, which is probably already written at this point.
This strike is a big deal. The position the studios are taking basically
prevents writers from gaining revenue on new media forms, the equivalent
to
telling an auto worker that he won't get paid for building hybrids but
only
for doing gas guzzlers.
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