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Dicks.

Let's see 'em.

Editing (the good, the bad....yadda yadda..the facts of editing).
Film scores - what works, what doesn't
Stoked (the life and times of Trey)
A Spontaneous Movie Pitch
Why Books>Movies are so fucking difficult to do right
A Day on the Set (logistics, random stories, best craft service table..etc)
TV vs. Movies (constraints, benefits, budgets...)
Do offscreen actions play a role in  how you view actors/directors previous work  (like Mel Gibson and looking back on the Lethal Weapon series)
Dorkman Fixes it (terrible ideas/movies - he has 30 minutes to make it watchable)

I second the "Film Scores" idea. What are some examples of great/terrible ones, what makes a great score, etc.

add to the whole editing discussion, the role of psychology in crafting the story during editing.  Basically, a general idea of the process an editor goes through in choosing which shots to put together to create a certain effect in an audience.  Whether that effect is emotional or what not.  Make sense?

Film scores-right up Teague's alley.

I also like the idea of the life of Trey. Get him going on a rant on how things have changed and you will have your 30 mins and more besides.

A topic in the same vein is "Changes in Movie Making" talking about film vs. Digital, set pieces and green screens and the like.

That could be the sequel to "How We Make Movies". "How You Should NOT Make Movies". Just take all the points left out of that episode and turn them into negatives.

Also, maybe "Worst Pitch for a Great Movie". What are some movies that have awful premises but are actually great?

"A musical based on an off-Broadway production based on a decades-old, awful Roger Corman film that involves a giant singing plant and a hero who commits multiple murders? Get the hell out of my office!"

Last edited by Doctor Submarine (2011-10-16 02:27:40)

Television. An all encompassing discussion including television budgets, network vs. cable, favorite shows, the development and production differences and similarities between shows and films; all of that shit and maybe even more. I've heard DiF talk about movies for hours upon hours and while that rules, I would love for the gang to weigh in on television for a solid half-hour.

on the Raiders commentary Dorkman says about how Indy being captured at the end wouldn't happen in a modern film. I'd be interested in a discussion on how film pacing has changed over different decades

For the record, some of us did our semi regular "Help me make this make sense," story sessions last night.  Afterwards we got into a discussion of interviews gone bad.  Much laughing occurred.

It just occurred to me, we should spend an episode trying to pitch together Avatar 2.

Every time they try to do a trilogy, it sucks, and we all say they should have known, and we sit here and Monday morning quarterback together how it should have been. Let's play Friday night quarterback and try to call it.

If he does something exactly like that and it sucks, well, look how much we suck, too. If he does that and it rules, so rule do we. If it does something different and it sucks, JACKPOT.

Maybe the wrong place, but if you're going to let ??? bring in his copy of Terra Nova ep1 and give him the control of the remote and then proceed with a "omg how could they get this soooo wrong" sesh then methinks that would be kinda cool. - though would it fit in the Intermission 30mins ?

Maybe you could carry on the idea with others in the team (who's names I'm sure I'll remember one day) bringing in their own choices of tv-progs (though this being DownInFront are you solely concerned with movies, tv-progs being a whole different "ball-game" with their writing / filming etcs and thus not in your remit?)