"Anim8rFSK" <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "Nicole Massey" <nyyki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> "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]
>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>>"Rob Jensen" <ShutUpRob@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>> >>>news:vlvui39i396t7ehbmh3eh1472gteuco597@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> >>
>> >>>> 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.
Still not a good analogy. Let's say that he gets paid for every car as
long
as they're sold through a dealer****p, but doesn't get paid for cars sold
direct to the consumer or through fleet sales. And for the analogy to
work,
you also have to add that people are increasingly starting to buy direct
and
bypass the dealer****ps.
On Demand and direct to DVD are going to become larger segments in the
next
few years, and under the current model writers will lose their ****rts
writing for those media.
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