This with the commonality of stunts means that sometimes as much as 20+ repeats of element of a costume are needed, depending on necessity. That means, simply, more costume as they all must have their own. ![]() On another job we had three (3) days between a principle actor needing a visually iconic costume being cast and being ON CAMERA.Īdditionally it is becoming increasingly common for actors to expect higher use of doubles - both stunt and picture doubles m. I did a job last year where - aside from our two leads - we had zero cast until the week we started shooting which meant we could only do extremely linited advance work plus we had a minuscule team despite being for a huge streaming platform with major stars. This limits contact time for development and conception (actors must also be involved int he design process), fittings, etc. Because productions never consider the wider logistics of outlying departments like costume, props etc.Ĭast is increasingly last minute, w negotiations dragging out. That feeds back into the materials available (and a dependency on what IS available?, but also staffing levels - smaller workrooms, limited outsourcing etc etc. Additionally budgets - despite the ridiculous sums of money being sunk - are becoming more shrunk, focused and scrutinised. Prep time is constantly being shrunk to the absolute bare minimum which limits design time, fitting time, r&d, sourcing (materials, hardware habdash, etc), making time (drafting, construction, embellishment, etc). What is happening is a degradation of production schedules. The only thing more astounding is how little they are being properly utilised. The number of phenomenally talented and knowledgable Costumiers and maker working is astounding. Ok, but what is happening here is not a degradation of skill. I live and fucking die by yes and, I’ll name every shark and punch it in the goddamn face for “Yes And.This trend should upset you not just because it looks cheap, but because it suggests a strong anti-art and anti-labor movement in film and tv making. You can’t come into improv and reject all your partners ideas but it’s also unhelpful to not give back anything to build on. “Yes And” is the funny little phrase but it is also a very important concept and mindset about collaborative storytelling and valuing others ideas. Ending a scene is hard, but if you work towards something together instead of trying to navigate around something together it’s usually easier. Likely much more pleasant scenes to watch and be in but still not as good as it could have been if the players were building off of each others ideas more.Īlso, people want to see resolution!!! Scenes get less funny when you drag them out and you should try to find a good end point which usually involves some sort of compromise or solution. Saying no in unhelpful ways usually just leads to a boring scene where people argue meaninglessly, but saying no too much even in a helpful way also leads to scenes where people just argue. You CAN say no in improv but the fucking difference is hearing someone go “We planned this together, how could you betray me” and responding “no we didn’t, nuh uh that didn’t happen” vs “Together? I did all the planning, I executed it, your contributions were worthless!”īoth people said “no we didn’t plan this together” but one gave their partner more characterization and a place to take the scene and the other left their partner on the back foot and having to scramble. Not only is it hard to play in a scene where your partner is not collaborating on your ideas it is just uncomfortable to watch Little known fact but the funniest thing you can do in improv is say no they would never let you edit other people’s tweets! that’s stupid! it’s literally the worst feature any social media site could ever have! if it ever happened somewhere else, it would be by accident and fixed immediately! but on old school tumblr? yeah, you could edit someone’s childhood fear from vampires to danny devito, and we all just had to live like that for years. sure, on twitter you can impersonate anybody, but you have to make your own tweets. can you imagine if a website let you do that today? people would lose their fucking minds. just casually spread misinformation via reblog, the original post being lost to time. the potential for slander was next level, you really could just edit the body of posts that weren’t even your own and it’d look like the OP said it. ![]() ![]() It’s been said before but the fact this site used to let you edit other people’s posts is beyond unhinged.
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