Some Dialogue just pulls me out...

This is one of the big differences between writing for film and writing for television. In film, you introduce the audience to the characters in the beginning, people are sitting in their seats, and you don't have to keep reintroducing your leads.

In television, your audience is coming in and out of the room, they come in in the middle, and the audience is only giving you half of their attention. It's kind of stupid, but a necessary evil.
 
What they lack is the ability to show us what is happening through moving pictures. It's easier to have the characters arbitrarily explain it to us like we're idiots. It saves them time and effort and they don't have to blow their creative load on an episode of a show that's already been on way too long.

They need to watch more Sergio Leone fillms.
 
bballplaya283 said:
I hate that too. I always thought it was possible to do that with a "really high tech computer" until I got into film/video (aka the public is easily manipulated).

Worse than that though was in the movie Johnny English. I believe they tried to pass off a camera taking a picture of a man and then scanning it for a 3d image. The image was then processed into a perfect representation of the man's head in three dimensions. It was then turned into a perfect mask...

...all from a still picture and completely automated.
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And what's worst about that is when someone in the real world comes up to me and asks me to actually perform these services. It happens quite regularly...

"Hey, I have this old video, can you run it through your computer and make it better - and maybe zoom in on that part"

"Sure, let me boot up Adobe Crystal Ball here, this will take just a second..."



I believe the 3D stuff in Johnny English was a parody of "Enemy of the state" where they look at the back of a plastic bag and figure out it's contents from a security camera on the other side. (At least they do make a point that it's just a computer guess based on what they saw on the front side, but still..)
- And of course the masks in Mission Impossible which deserve to be made fun of at every opportunity.


- Mikko
 
mikkowilson said:
And what's worst about that is when someone in the real world comes up to me and asks me to actually perform these services. It happens quite regularly...

"Hey, I have this old video, can you run it through your computer and make it better - and maybe zoom in on that part"

"Sure, let me boot up Adobe Crystal Ball here, this will take just a second..."
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well there is your problem. you need to use sony vegas to do that. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
 
ugafan said:
well there is your problem. you need to use sony vegas to do that. :Drogar-BigGrin(DBG)
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- Mikko
 
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