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"Nicole Massey" <nyyki@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> "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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> >> > "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]
> >> >>
> >> >>>> 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.
Still not a good analogy. They want additional money for the SAME car
when it trades hands again, down the road, whether there's a profit
involved or not. They'd want money if you gave your old car to charity.
Nobody's denying them money for any car; they still get paid for
building it, and the first sale, and a lot of other resales.
>
> 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.
Nonsense.
They get paid for writing the script, regardless of where it airs,
regardless of if it airs, *now*
They get paid for direct to DVD *now*
We're talking extra residuals from potential later dispersal of product
that might not even have money changing hands, and they want twice what
they get on a DVD for that.
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