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Okay! Shooting day is coming! The costumes are fully in. (Thank you Bathilda! They are fabulous! We'll do the fitting tomorrow, and I'll post another picture.)
Drew, Holden, Jim, and Tage (sp?) are all coming either late Friday night or Saturday noonish. Our actors will be available all afternoon and evening. We'll have access to the RV only between 2 and 4, I'm afraid, so we should shoot that first, then into the woods for the dusk shots.
Surely the "defining chapter" is the appendix at the end of Return of the King, with all the language and hobbit pedigrees and such.
Very happy they'll finally be getting that.
What what WAHT?!
Awesome! Okay, Jim, Holden, and Drew are coming on the 26th--early afternoon, presumably. I'll DM details.
I'm thrilled! The filming and audio might not be incompetent!
/no guarantees expressed or implied
//past performance is not an indicator of future results
///offer good in participating locations only
////sorry, Tennessee
I'm jelly.
Yes, it's possible I just checked Priceline to see what a flight to and from Indy would cost.
South Bend would be the place to come and go from. Indy is 3 hrs away, and hardly bigger of an airport.
/piiiiizza
EDIT: I gave the kids their scripts this weekend. They're getting nervous and want to practice. Didn't have time to do a camera/costume test. Too much family stuff (HS graduation reception). Successfully exchanged the boots, tho.
All lights are green.
Hitchhiker's quotes around the edges? Color me intrigued.
whatarewegonnado? google all them german wrods?
Separate lighting for green screen and subject: no prob. as for color gels and such, it'll be much more of an issue, but I'm also shooting in raw, so white balance isn't an issue.
I'll need lines, directions and a deadline.
The script is final at version 4 (the only difference is the name change from Butterfly to Straya).
Your role is to answer your communication and sit there and deliver your Darth Voyne lines like in the storyboards. Glower darkly and chew your lines. At the end, you have a key moment when you have to react to Straya's vow to find and destroy you; so you need to give an angry growl and make a sharp motion to end the transmission.
Our shoot will be next weekend and maybe a pick-up the weekend after. Post will last for months. So If you can do a quick test for Teague in the next week or so, that would be great.
Darth Niken's costume is nearly complete. The final belt is on the way. He's declined a face tattoo. Maybe I can persuade him to go with a scar....
Straya's costume is on its way. The boots are in stock at the local store, so we'll actually exchange them for the right size this afternoon. 
I think Trey's comments were specifically about the continuity complainers. "The length of the cigarette changes from shot to shot." And "Her hair goes from being inside her coat to outside and back again during the conversation." And "The car appears undamaged for a split second after first collision and before the second collision." Movie Mistakes and the IMDb goofs pages are full of that stuff, and it's miserable.
Trey (and I) agree that Cinema Sins' level of noticing characters suddenly disappearing and such is fair game and kind of amusing.
We definitely will do some stuff in the late afternoon of the 25th, but Drew's not available that day, is all. If you are, then we're cool.
I have guest rooms available for anyone who needs to stay overnight. I'd be remiss if I didn't offer a movie in my theater along with pizza.
Okay, cool. I may try a test shoot tomorrow with Niken based on this. He has his full costume, so it might be a good example of what the raw footage will look like.
Meanwhile, Bathilda is finishing Butterfly's costume (she's changed her name to "Straya", by the way). I need to send her boots back. They didn't fit.
Tom can do a test for Darth Voyne any time. 
Drew is planning to come on the 26th to help shoot. Holden is still a maybe, I think. 
My audio adapter for the shotgun mike didn't work for my iPhone or iPad, but the mike works fine on the Canon Rebel camera itself, and I have a long extension cable, so we'll have A/V sync without much sacrifice.
Dude. Everyone is kiiiiiind of freaking out here.
!!
Same, sort of....
Alright, I've read some more of the Film Crit Hulk stuff and decided I don't completely hate him. His style isn't always ridiculously flowery and bordering on nonsense. The James Bond articles are perfectly good—and quite in-depth—critiques (altho I'm not fond of the Cracked-style pics with komedy kaptions).
Points to Teague.
220, 221, whatever it takes.
/Mr. Mom
There's only one person to blame for this misunderstanding....
If you think that is anywhere near the same ballpark as what Shallit does, or even worse, that he's SUPPOSED to do what Shallit does, I don't even know what to say.
How has anything I've said brought you to this conclusion? I've said repeatedly that some critics are great writers and some are hacks.
I've already conceded the point that thoughtful film criticism exists as a thing (if not a job, for the most part) separate from movie reviews.
Can you glower? He should glower.
How about this? When the panel was drawing a distinction between "film criticism" and "film review" they were talking about those occasional articles like the Man of Steel piece as opposed to regular movie reviews, because, altho much rarer, they are much more important and speak to cinema as art.
Don't be ridiculous. We all know what a film critic does. If they can work some analysis into a review, great, that makes them a better writer. I'm not arguing that. My argument is that there is no accepted difference between "film review" and "film criticism". Roger Ebert was a "film critic" who wrote "movie reviews". His website says so. This is not controversial.
But what WAYDM, film professors, and film critics writing the occasional in-depth essay do is a form and level of analysis that is totally different from a movie review. That's why Matt Singer writes op-ed pieces for The Dissolve (what i think Trey would call a "critique" -- here's "One Year Later: Man of Steel"). It gives him a place to do genuine analysis.
Why are you people acting like I've claimed that all movie critics are hacks?
My arguments:
Film critic and movie reviewer are not different jobs
The primary job of (most) film critics is to review new movies and recommend the good ones
Film critics don't do much in-depth analysis, at least not in movie reviews themselves because they are too short and can't give away details
How is this controversial?
You bring up a good point. Anybody want to play Niken's master Darth Voyne? Needs a hood and some makeup or mask against a dark background. Video quality is less important because it will be comped into the hologram.
no critic is under any obligation to accept someone else's definitions for her own work.
But they nearly all have a boss that hired them and a job description that says they will watch movies and write reviews explaining whether or not those movies are good enough to watch and why.
This is not philosophy. It's journalism.
EDIT:
Well, for the professionals, anyway. For the new media you mention, no, those guys are free to do whatever they want, like Red Letter Media taking a break from in-depth analysis to reveal the author has a woman kidnapped in his basement.
That's new.
EDIT EDIT:
The in-depth analysis part, I mean.
Gene Shalit did in fact have a woman kidnapped in his basement.
The important thing is that we all agree that Confused Matthew is clinically confused and possibly a serial killer.
(Altho he actually does do film analysis.)
I think the idea that film critics don't analyze films is absolutely absurd, and the idea that film analysis and film criticism are mutually exclusive is even more so. That's what I'm arguing. You're lumping a lot of critics in with one specific style of criticism that is certainly not all-encompassing.
I've already demonstrated that your example of a critic's version of film analysis is very limited and superficial. You've already admitted that a film review is too short for much analysis.
I've also already allowed that film critics sometimes write analytical essays and compile them into books, altho that's not their main job.
I don't know what the problem is.
I think you're being extremely unfair to film critics by reducing the entire field to nothing more than consumer reporting.
I don't know what you're arguing here. Some film critics are better writers? Some engage in a little analysis? So what?
The panel claimed that there is a difference between "film criticism" and "film review", and there simply isn't. Virtually everyone who does them is called a "film critic". The degree to which some film critics engage in film analysis in their reviews is moot in that argument.
The fact that I maintain that critics don't really analyze films (beyond saying they exude a certain feeling or offer "a history’s worth of cinematic amalgamations") is a separate argument. Disagree if you want, but that AO Scott review wasn't persuasive.
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