On Mon, 05 Nov 2007 17:24:44 -0700, Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>In article <472fade7$0$32494$4c368faf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Nicole Massey" <nyyki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "windowwasher" <windowwasher@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> news:0uNXi.20367$B25.5362@[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:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> >>>news:vlvui39i396t7ehbmh3eh1472gteuco597@[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.
>
>Uh, no. A better analogy would be that the auto worker only gets paid
>when he builds the car the first time, but not when it's resold. He
>still gets paid for every single car.
Umm, no. The most appropriate analogy is that the writers, actors and
directors all get royalties for the same reasons that musicians and
novelists and other entertainment creators do -- to give them
incentives to create more work by paying them bonuses.
So if you want to go back to the auto analogy, fine then -- it's
analogous to a car company in which the employees get profit
participation benefits. Automakers don't really do that anymore --
but that's because auto companies are galactically incompetent,
especially in comparison to the entertainment industry, as insane as
the entertainment industry's own internal economics may sound.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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