tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-322035692024-03-19T01:47:44.174-07:00Beaming BeemanBlog for Producer/Director Greg BeemanGreg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-84975940090338554172018-05-14T10:30:00.001-07:002018-05-14T10:30:08.227-07:00<div style="text-align: center;">
TIMELESS SEASON 2 TWO-HOUR FINALE</div>
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<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6885546/?ref_=ttep_ep9" target="_blank">THE GENERAL</a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Two episodes aired tonight. And that means this is the end of our second season. It was a great ride... TIMELESS is a hard show to make, as you can imagine. The nature of doing a show where 2/3 of any given episode happen in a different time period is challenging - but very satisfying.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As I've said on this blog before - I believe we made 10 great episodes. Not a bad one in the bunch. The TIMELESS fans are great and loyal and I'm also proud of our 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now - it's hard for me when two episodes air back to back. Obviously, just by watching, you can tell that they weren't designed to be aired back to back... It's an NBC scheduling thing. It's good for the fans - you get a mini-binge watch... But for me it's tough, especially, when I directed episode 10. Inevitably I will give more time here to episode 10.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I won't go into "The General" too much except to tip my cap to director <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0795288/" target="_blank">John Showalter</a> who has directed 3 episodes of TIMELESS all of them top notch! And also to <a href="https://twitter.com/hornchristine?lang=en" target="_blank">Christine Horn</a> who plays Harriett Tubman... I think all of the actors playing historical figures have been amazing this year - but Christine kills it! I think she was great as Harriett and played her (as Rufus says) as a real badass. I really didn't interact with Christine much - this epiosde (well written by <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2251660/" target="_blank">Matt Whitney</a>)) was our smoothest prep of the season. After the second episode (the Hollywood one!) Matt really figured out how to write a TIMELESS script that fit into what we can do. The strong, manageable script and John Showalter's steady hand in prep - meant I didn't have to get too involved. Which was lucky because 210 was a beast! Anyway - back to Christine... The first time I saw her was at the table read. Table reads are when the cast and crew get together, usually the day before we start shooting, and casually read through the script. They're fun (especially with this cast) and informative to the writers director and production crew. We really get a "first-look" feel of the episode in them. But they are also light hearted and there's a lot of joking around. Christine, though, was completely focused and in character. All the presence and power she commands on screen was felt in that little room on the Paramount lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So - about episode 210...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1238925/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Tom Smuts</a> and Nancy Baird wrote the script. Tom is an Executive Producer on the show who runs the writers room with Arika Mittman. He also co-wrote the season opener which I directed (along with Arika) and he and I bonded on that project. He's a great and thoughtful guy and a great collaborator. Nancy has been the writer's room assistant and (I think) this is her first produced teleplay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Tom and Nancy’s script was a great first read…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course some of the juicy details I’d
been hearing about through the grapevine… But I was impressed by how it brought
together so many emotional stories… Every character got a scene that ripped
them up (and which had been set up by the writers well in advance) Lucy watched
her mother not change or regret her loyalty to Rittenhouse even in her dying
moments… Wyatt got to confront Jessica and learned that yes she really is
pregnant and that yes she is also loyal to Rittenhouse… Mason and Jiya got a
beautiful heart aching after Rufus death (and I love the dialogue and the way
Claudia played the moment that Rufus is lost in all timelines she can see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wyatt confesses his love for Lucy…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">And yes – Rufus is really, really dead!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Also what a stunning moment when Emma shoots Nicholas and
Carol.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved that moment and
directorially wanted it to be very sudden and shocking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To help accomplish that I made sure to
slow down the pacing in the moments before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Lucy and gang enter the Chinese photo studio I made sure
not to rush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then I shot the
angle through the curtain where we can barely see Lucy talking to the little
girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next I shot a shot which
begins on a closeup of Emma in period wardrobe - and then the camera slowly
circles showing the whole group, next Jessica holding a gun on a Chinese man
we’ve never met, but the blood trickling down from a wound on his forehead
tells us the story, then Nicholas is revealed and then the shot pans to Carol
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</span>I designed that moment to be very slow and methodical.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In post music helped to build tension
to these paced-down moments – and then when Carol intervenes and knocks Emma’s
shooting hand down – the next few moments are very quick and sudden… BAM! Carol
is shot and then BAM! Nicholas is shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">This leads to a small action scene where Emma and Jessica
run and escape through the crowds in Chinatown.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1971706/?ref_=tt_cl_t10" target="_blank">Tonya Glanz</a>, who plays Jessica, was so excited. She had loved the show before she got the job. She also lives in NYC and so she loved being in Los ANgeles for the winter. Like you guys, the fans, she had NO IDEA where the role of Jessica was going when she first took the job - so her knowledge grew as the scripts came out .. Her excitement jumped when she learned ed she was Rittenhouse and then she got even more excited to learn she was going back to the past. She loved her period costume but, literally the first thing she has to do in the bustle and high heels and tight-fitting corset was run down the street dodging through extras. It was a challenge.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One of the biggest challenges of this episode was that it had a lot of small locations - but as I read it, it came to my mind that this one could shoot ALL on the Paramount lot. I felt there are enough nooks and crannies and streets on the lot to make it work - and we'd save a lot of money by not going out (probably to downtown Los Angeles) and paying big location fees. The main New York street on the lot was brilliantly dressed by our art department. We then had our biggest challenge which was to come up with
more than 100 extras to play the 1880’s Chinatown… At that time and place in history they all had shaved heads and long braided hair. We found a few extras who were bald but had to add bald caps and braids to many others. This is obviously a slow and expensive process and we didn't have time or enough Hair/Makeup department manpower to do more than 35 people. Max Day, our first Assistant Director had to move these "hero" extras around shot-to-shot to make sure they were featured.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">It's all a lot of stress during the prep time, but when I walked on the set and saw it dressed like old chinatown and saw it filling up with extras, it looked so cool. There was really only two scenes where we see ALL of the extras and dressing - the one where our heroes walk through Chinatown and Lucy explains the (very interesting) history of the time, and the brief action scene I just described where Wyatt and Flynn chase Emma and Jessica. For these scenes I used long lenses to compress the action... Longer lenses have the effect of <u>smashing</u> everything together and making the shot look more full. I also had the grips lay 100 feet of dolly track and we did and old school long-lens raking 4 shot walking with our team as all sorts of foreground and background set-pieces whizz through the frame. I felt satisfied that, even though brief, these shots set the tone, the time and the place for the whole episode.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">Also I want to gve a nod to <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4707628/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cl_t6" target="_blank">Claudia Doumit</a> who plays Jiya. She had already gone on one time-travel adventure... But this episode had her really stepping up her game. She had to play betrayed and drugged she had to kill a man to escape, and then she had to play a 1880's baddass and then deal with all the emotional pain of Rufus' death. It's a lot more than Jiya has ever done and a lot of performance nuances to feather throughout the hour. You may or may not know this, but Claudia is also Australian - so on top of it all she's doing an American accent. I knew she was going to kill it on this episode on the first day of shooting when she played the scenes in the Rittenhouse warehouse where she confronts Carol and kills the guard and escapes chased by Emma. Her performance was real and connected throughout. Good job Claudia!!!</span></div>
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</style>Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-46377780594036902292018-05-07T02:40:00.000-07:002018-05-08T07:15:46.234-07:00SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8 - "The Day Reagan Was Shot"<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">TIMELESS - SEASON 2 - EPISODE 8 - "THE DAY REAGAN WAS SHOT"</span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>SPOILERS HEREIN THERE ARE!</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><b>WARNED YOU HAVE BEEN!</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Hello fans!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Welcome to “The Day Reagan
Was Shot” – an episode many of us who create the series think is one of the
best ones we’ve ever made!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It all comes from the page. </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Arika Lisanne Mittman, who been on
TIMELESS from the beginning and serves as one of executive producers breaking
stories and running the writer’s room – teamed up on the script with newcomer
Lauren Greer.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Lauren has been
serving as the writer’s room assistant and knows everything about the ins and
outs of the TIMELESS' big picture.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">This (I </span><i style="font-family: arial;">think) </i><span style="font-family: "arial";">is her first
produced script.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There are so many themes and stories and big ideas at
play in this one – we learn <u>so</u> <u>much</u> about so many of our team,
both about their history and their character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Jiya gets to go back in time for the first time ever and gets a great 80’s hairdo in the process! </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Rufus and Wyatt have a big moral struggle as they realize that even a Rittenhouse agent can have humanity and may be here for reasons that are personal and not just pure “evil.” </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">For the first time ever we get to meet one of our regular
players at a different period in history. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">We get a real look at the culture and the family dynamics at play in Agent Christopher's life. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">Denise Christopher is at a crossroads in her life – and we struggle
with Lucy and Jiya as they debate about how much to tell her about history and
their true purpose.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">There's also the extremely interesting stress behind the idea that if Lucy and team fail on this mission - the present day timeline will just <u>cease to exist</u>! The team would never have been put together and Christopher's whole family would just never be! That's a lot to wrap your head around!?!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">And, if you are a true
TIMELESS fan, I’m sure you had the same experience I had, when Agent
Christopher presents Lucy with the flashdrive she was given almost 40 years
before!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That moment gave me chills
on the page and also the first time I saw it in a rough cut from the editing
room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a great callback to
season 1, and what a way to play with the conventions of time travel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Remember – even though we
make the show, we are fans too!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
have the experience of watching the story take shape too ... just in slow motion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You guys watch it in a continuous 42
minute experience – for us, the filmmakers, the process takes somewhere from weeks to months (depending
on what point in the process we each jump on).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Episode's director: <br class="Apple-interchange-newline" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Alex Kalymnios</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Director</span> <span style="background: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial";">Alex Kalymnios </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">was new to the show. She had been highly recommended by another producer-director to Shawn Ryan's team. When I don't know a director I make a few phone calls to vet them and make sure to watch at least one of their projects. Alex chacked out great. The episode of her's I watched was </span><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6181034/?ref_=nm_flmg_dr_3" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt;" target="_blank">THE 100</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I chose THE 100 because it
was a show I’m familiar with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
cinematographer Nate Goodman shot the pilot, and I’ve seen a few episodes over
the years. This just means I know what an episode <u>should</u> be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When I watch an episode of TV as a
sample, my goal is to see if it’s a great example of what the show aspires to
be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ideally I want it to represent
the series well and to also elevate and/or add something unexpected that is
consistent with the tone of the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Alex’s episode did this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
was very contained with much of it taking place in one space, yet with a <u>big</u>
cast and lots of extras.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
elements could trap many directors… but she handled it all very well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She moved the camera a lot and
kept the tensions alive… and all of the storylines were <u>very </u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><u>clear</u>. (Clarity may be the one
thing I look for beyond anything else!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">Anway – as I often say - one
of my biggest jobs is to work hand-in-hand with the directors familiarizing
them with the show and all of its ins and outs, advantages and pitfalls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Working with Alex was a joy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s hard to find the perfect word to
describe someone, but with Alex I’d pick “delightful.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She’s been directing awhile already, but, to me, she’s still early on in
what I’m sure will be a long and successful career.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What was fun about her was her enthusiasm and her joy at filmmaking. She's also British and this was her first experience shooting in Los Angeles, and not just LA but on the Paramount Lot! This is a thrill for even grizzled old vets.. It never gets old. But she was legit pumped up to be on the show and in Los Angeles and on this classic lot. Watching the show I think she really controlled the internal rhythms of the story both emotionally and dramatically.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I felt a little bad, because
(as sometimes happen) we spent <u>a lot</u> of the prep of this episode beating
the script down and getting it in shape to produce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I know this story feels
relatively simple and contained by our standards, and the 80’s looks like an
easier period to produce than some of the others we do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think what made this one hard is just
that there were <u>so</u> <u>many</u> stories at play that, in the early drafts
of the script, there were just too many scenes and settings and beats of story
to contain in the number of days that are prescribed by our budget.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">It’s always something with
TIMELESS, the last episode was challenged by 100’s of extras in period wardrobe
in 1911 NYC.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The episode before
was challenged by music playback and a lot of action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This one was challenged by “how do we
tell <u>all</u> of this story in the time and budget we have?" This includes
screen-time by the way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faye
Brenner, our script supervisor timed the early drafts as being very long.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">The problem we all had was
that the script was so good that none of us really wanted to cut anything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we ended up in meeting after
meeting, day after day, trying to figure out how to compress stories into fewer
scenes and less locations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some of
this becomes bizarrely mathematical – it’s like, if the Assistant Director and
Director and Producers assess that “these three scenes with these six
characters in these three locations will take ten hours to shoot” so, we propose –
“What if we take one character out and cut one of the scenes and move the same
information and some of the page count to <u>two</u> locations?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How long will that take?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then the production team retreats for
an hour or two and assesses and comes back with something like “Well, we lose
the one-hour location move, but the one scene becomes longer and more
complicated – so ten hours can be reduced to seven hours” Then we factor that
in and start again…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rinse and
repeat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Really, we spent way too
long doing that kind of stuff on this one.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">I felt bad because Alex wasn’t
getting the time to do her thinking, and Arika and Lauren were being very
patient, revising and revising their plan…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">But you know what?</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">(And I find this is often the case) When you start with a script that works – you can go after a lot of detail, and as long as you don’t lose anything essential – it will always work!</span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial";">Now that’s it finished, I don’t see or even remember the compromises that were made.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";">One of simplification that we came up with (Lauren came up with it actually) which made the episode better (IMHO) is this... In first drafts we revisited the attempt on Reagan's life twice. The story origionally opened following John Hinckley and we saw the attempt on Reagan's life </span><u style="font-family: Arial;">as it happened</u><span style="font-family: "arial";"> historically. Then, when the time team arrived, we saw it again but with the changes that occurred by the fact of our heroes being there. This is a frequent convention of our series which began with the pilot. We show a scene as it occurred and then again as we change it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial";">The problem was, staging this scene twice just wasn't feasible. It would have taken a good portion of two days. The solution came to us finally. There was a scene in Hinckley's hotel room, when Lucy, Young Christopher and Jiya entered and snooped around. The fix was to not open with the attempted assassination </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;">but, instead, to open with an impressionistic montage in the hotel room of Hinckley</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt;"> writing letters to Jodi Foster. We all, and Alex especially, quickly got excited by this. While much easier to produce it's actually an eerier way to start the show.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally, I'd like to talk about the physical production of the assassination attempt, and tip my hat to First AD Max day and Script Supervisor Faye Brenner. Max and his AD team studied video of the attempt on Reagan's life over and over, and they sat with our extras casting and wardrobe team and watched the video again with them. Suffice it to say, the whole scene is <u>very</u> accurate with as many details as possible just right. It's one thing to do this on a feature film, with a nice slow pace that accommodates detailed precision - but when you're working fast like we have to it's much harder. Max and team staged it great and Faye mad ensure that shot to shot the continuity was just right.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Thanks guys!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Written by: <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8538375/?ref_=tt_ov_wr" target="_blank">David Hoffman</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Welcome TIMELESS fans!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">This weeks episode was written by David Hoffman, a first-time solo writer on our show. He co-wrote "Lost Generation" last year. He, as I understand it, is our consultant and main historian in the writer's room. Also, a super nice guy!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Doug Aariniokoski was the director. Doug and I had worked together once before, on a show I produced called "American Gothic" for CBS. He frequently does the same producing-director job I do and, from my point of view, is extremely self-contained (which is a huge compliment.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My experience, both times with him, was that we got together briefly once or twice, early in his prep phase, I gave him the highlights of what we are trying to do with the series, my take on his episode, as far as what moments I think are key to hit as he goes. I walk him through any pitfalls, as I see them... And that's it. I never really have to supervise him or worry about him again. He comes from an Assistant Director's background - so efficiency is built into his DNA. He moves very quickly through his day, getting all the shots he needs. But, unlike many efficient former-ADs I've worked with, he is also careful with the artistry and the performances and gets interesting angles and shots as he goes. Thumbs up from me on </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Doug Aariniokoski</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> (even though I can't pronounce his last name for the life of me.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">In this case - the first few drafts of the script called for <u>a lot</u> of seperate 1919 city locations. A city block with a riot, an opera house, a police station exterior, a cab ride through New York City (with Rufus, Flynn and Emma) as well as a big factory in the warehouse district complete with shoot out... It was a strong script from the get-go but more scope than we could bite off.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Episodic director is also an odd job because you drop in on an already-fast-moving train, and quickly need to take control of that train. Doug came in strong and was ready to make choices. He assessed the scope of the script. His take: We would try to do <u>all</u> of the New York City street material on the Paramount Back lot (where we live.) There were compromises here - but Doug felt like we could make the lot look like at least two big NYC streets. And some bigger scenes would be written into nook and crannies around the Paramount lot - alleys and interior spaces that were off of the main street. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Don Kurt our line-producer/executive producer pushed for the Biltmore Hotel in downtown LA as one of the big interiors and the Southwestern Bag Company as the interior police station.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway - here's all the rubs. #1 Downtown Los Angeles is <u>extremely</u> exensive to shoot. Not just because of location costs - mostly because of parking... That's right <u>parking</u>. Like all major metropolitan cities I've been in lately, the downtown core is disappearing and an endless number of <b style="background-color: white; color: #660099; cursor: pointer;"><i><a class="spell" data-ved="0ahUKEwi3k6X8-d3aAhXqxYMKHQApBTYQkeECCCYoAA" href="https://www.google.com/search?q=spelling+condominiums&spell=1&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3k6X8-d3aAhXqxYMKHQApBTYQkeECCCYoAA" id="fprsl" style="background-color: white; color: #660099; cursor: pointer;">condominiums</a> </i></b>are be being built. That means there's less and less parking and the people who own parking lots can charge whatever they want. A TV crew travels in many trucks packed with our equipment, plus big makeup and hair trailers and cast trailers and a caterer and a mobile catering room - and we have to park a hundred or more crew memebers - i.e. a big footprint. So we need a lot of parking lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">(Who knew? You get in this business for the art and you end up worrying about parking.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The Paramount backlot was built into our production deal, so it cost no more money to shoot there, and Paramount's New York street is great! One of the last remaining studio streets built to really shoot in! Bu,t of course, it's bare. To make it look like 1919 meant that our Production Designer <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0951627/" target="_blank">John Zachar</a>y would have to dress every inch of Paramount - also not cheap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">And to have a mob of protesting suffragettes and police beating on them? Well AD Anne Berger and Doug wanted 200 for two days... but the budget wouldn't support it. The problem with TIMELESS is that, unlike most shows - every time we hire an extra, it means that (1) Their period wardrobe needs to be ordered (often from Europe) or made (2) They need to be brought in early to be fitted (3) They need special period hair and makeup meaning extra technicians hired on the day (4) They often need special props, meaning extra prop people as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">After much haggling and negotiating and dropping of vehicles and animals and a lot of set dressing - Doug preserved 100 extras and 10 stunt people for two days. He decided that we would add a big green screen at the end of the street and that in a handful of shots NYC would be extended making it look even bigger.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Finally I must shout out to the hero of the episode - our costume designer <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0148372/?ref_=nv_sr_1" target="_blank">Mari An Ceo</a> ... When I saw the director's cut (which usually comes out just to producers a week-and-a-half or so after we finish shooting) I was so impressed with her work. I mean, it's always above and beyond - but for some reason this episode hit me. The wardrobe team works <u>tirelessly</u> and with such intergrity... Looooooong hours and usually weekends and all to make sure that Abigale and the rest of the cast and even 110 extras and stunt people look - <u>perfect!</u></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I stalked the lot until I found Mari-An and told her that she was TIMELESS'S secret MVP. She was beaten and bruised and in the middle of getting our 1980's episode ready - but I think she took it in!</span></div>
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Abigale on set with 2nd Second Assistant<br />
Joe Moore (I'll never know why we don't just<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">ready to fight for Votes For Women</span><br />
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... And Annie (our best bad gal!)<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Kudos and thanks to Exec-Producer Don Kurt by the way. Many of these photos were taken by him! Thanks Don!!!!</span></div>
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SEASON 2 – EPISODE 6 – “KING OF THE DELTA BLUES”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: aqua; color: red; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">(Warning some spoilers exist herin)</span><span style="color: red; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We now join in to your regularly scheduled programming…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">By which I mean…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Beaming Beeman blog has been dormant for
quite awhile… I’ve been busy, but I’ve either been doing the
journeyman-episodic-director thing, where I go from episode to episode of
different shows that I’m not attached to full-time (enjoyable in it’s right),
or I haven’t been the producing/director of the show that felt right to
resurrect the blog.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This season, finally, I landed on TIMELESS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A happy event for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The show was created by Shawn Ryan and
Eric Kripke - who are the nicest, most supportive and professional showrunners
a fellow could want for. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had the great experience this year of strong scripts, a great writer’s team and
a sense of collaboration to make 10 great episodes that were both strong and on
budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m very proud of the
second season of Timeless and I don’t think we have a weak episode in the
bunch…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Keep watching and I’m
sure you’ll agree.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I directed two episodes of the show for Eric and Shawn in
season one, and in season 2 they asked me to come aboard to produce the show
and be the in-house director. Delighted was I and join I did!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">… Okay, you ask… but episode 6?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beeman’s Blog gets resurrected on episode 6???<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There’s a reason for that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You see – I’ve been planning to re-start the blog for
awhile…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we were in production
and TIMELESS is a beast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(I mostly
do beastly shows it seems) When the first episode aired I was in the middle of
directing this same episode 6 that just you’ve hopefully just watched…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I couldn’t find the time or energy to do the necessary
writing and photo editing…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also
turned out that the dormant blog had gathered the digital equivalent of a
seafaring vessel’s barnacles and algae… and to scrape it off and clean it up
was a bigger project than I figured.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We finished production only two weeks ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could have gotten a blog out last
week – but, frankly, I was beat… And I think I also figured that, if I’ve
waited this long I might as well wait another week and dig in on an episode I
directed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One which I’m really
proud of too!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">My plan is to circle back after the end of the season and
write about episodes 1 through 5.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And since the world and this show lives on DVR, and Amazon Prime and iTunes,
and more likely than not that’s how you watch anyway, I think it’s just as
well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If you’re new to my blog, what I do is to try and give you,
dear reader, a glimpse into the process we go through behind-the-scenes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On a basic level that process is that
we prep each episode for 7 days and shoot each episode for 8 days plus
(usually) one or two days of second unit (mostly for action scenes).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And so…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">King of
The Delta Blues:</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I wasn’t originally supposed to direct this one.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Another director had been booked, but
dropped out.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">In fact, I only found
out for sure that I was going to do it two days before we started prep.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now I always read and break down every script of the season,
assessing for both creative notes and for feasibility-of-production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, even though I was familiar with
the script, the emotional and organizational difference between producing and
directing is pretty big.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The script had come out early (Sean and Eric are fastidious
about getting the scripts out in a timely manner) and I knew it was a good one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because one of my assumed missions on a
show is to keep the cast and crew pumped up, I’d already been circulating the
set letting everyone know I’d seen a preview and that it was the best script of
the year so far.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of the cast
knew that the Robert Johnson story was coming up, and depending upon their
interest in all-thing-musical, they were already pretty fired up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Anslem Richardson’s script was first rate – kind of jumping
off the page.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You can just tell
when a script is written with passion and this one was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Slem (as he’s known) wrote the Bonny and Clyde and the Al
Capone episodes in season 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d
met him in the writer’s room, but hadn’t worked with him yet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The first draft was excellent, and I wished it could have
been produced as is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the
producing half of my job (along with a bunch of other people) is to figure out
how many days how much money will it take to actually <u>make</u> the
script.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As great as the first
draft of 206 was, it didn’t fit into the box…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Here was the original email I sent to the full group of
writers and other producers after breaking down the material:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 9:49 AM, Greg </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">wrote:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">Hi guys</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">206 is a great script all around! Really evocative setting and characters and the sense of time and place is very visceral.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">Moreover our characters are all moved forward in a meaningful way. Especially Mason.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">The bad news is that - in its current form - there’s no way it will fit into the Box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">As always, I’ve done my own breakdown and haven’t cross-referenced with Don or Max our AD - they may see things differently - but I think this script will schedule out at 11 or 12 days. I assume our goal is still 8 + 1 (aka 9)</span></div>
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10 locations<br />
(6 locations with only 1 scene - I count college for negros in this even though there’s a 2/8 hall scene... and 2 other locations with only 2 scenes)<br />
3 action scenes<br />
3 playback scenes - always adds time - and one while driving<br />
10 scenes (maybe more) with 4 or more actors (some scenes have 6 or 7 speaking parts)<br />
1 montage<br />
2 driving scenes<br />
All of these elements take time wether it be loading trucks and moving location or hooking cars to tow or staging stunts and pyro and safety meetings for shootouts or filming lots of coverage because of numerous speaking parts.</blockquote>
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">Ideas:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">As beautiful as it is can we omit the cotton field scene. It’s it’s own location - cotton most likely will be a pricey VFX and the tow work + playback will be slow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">Any way to combine the beats in the 1936 San Antonio scene and the College for Negros beats into one location. Either they attempt a payphone call in San Antonio or they pull up at College of Negros and we skip San Antonio</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">Can we eliminate the exterior Rittenhouse action piece - it will be it’s own 2nd unit doing night work for 1/2 page. Is there a way to establish the Rittenhouse atrium - with guards etc - and then we reveal Wyatt entering. Tricky I know but may need to happen.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">We also have only have about 3 days on stage so we will have to build one of the sets. Maybe hotel room - but this will also add costs and stretch us.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">Sorry to be the bear 🐻 of bad news - but again - it’s a great script and I’m sure, even with cuts and compressions, it will be one of our best!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "helvetica"; font-size: 14px;">Greg</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">This is the sad process that we would-be artists in the television
world must engage in…. No matter how fantastic the material, it must fit in the
box.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Sometimes the box can be
stuffed and almost overflowing – but that’s it. (More on those cool omitted
scenes in a moment.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mostly I write these emails to state the obvious and put it
on paper, and get a dialogue going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Eric Kripke and Shawn Ryan and Slem and Don Kurt, our executive
producer/line producer were all ahead of me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They knew the script was too big and were addressing it even
before I said anything – The writers had cut the Cotton-Fields-Scene and the
College-of-Negros scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was
a lot more haggling and compressing to go but that was a big start.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The omitted cotton field scene was a beautiful and evocative
scene where Rufus, Mason with Robert Johnson in the back drove from San Antonio
to Johnson’s sister’s juke joint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As they drove they passed through cotton fields being worked on by
African American field hands singing gospel songs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Johnson was inspired to play his guitar and we saw the
evolution from gospel to blues.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The College for Negros scene was a scene where, unable to
use a “whites-only” payphone in San Antonio, they had to go to a Negro college
and borrow a phone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we
simplified that scene evolved to become the scene where Rufus defiantly uses
the “whites only” phone in front of the gas station.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The casting was critical on this one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I feel we’ve gotten SO lucky this whole
year and our historical-character guest cast have been incredible.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Young JFK, Wendell Scott, Hedi Lamar,
etc… Have been great.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Robert
Johnson raised the bar on what we needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not only did he need the edge and pathos of this vital, complex
historical character – our actor needed to be able to sing and play
guitar.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our casting director, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wendy Weidman</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;"> told me later that of all the roles this season – finding this
one was the one that stressed her out the most.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;">But then Kamal appeared.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;">His audition – which was reading two scenes and then playing
and singing "Stop Breakin Down Blues" - was very dynamic.</span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14pt;">He won the role hands down.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">There was something about the script that had a simplicity
and elegance to it.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">It inspired me
to follow that theme in the way it would be lit and shot.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I knew our production designer John
Zachary and his team would make the sets beautiful and that the wardrobe would be
great.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I really wanted the
lighting to be beautiful.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I
repeatedly said the sentence “classic portrait lighting” to our cinematographer
Nate Goodman (who I’ve worked with on “Heroes” and “Falling Skies”)…</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I wanted the episode to look like a
Coen Brother’s movie, like Hudsucker Proxy.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">To me this meant beautiful lighting, simple frames where the
scenes evolve within the frames and wide lenses, especially in the 1930’s
material.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">Of course as I
thought about that, it meant that I would need the discipline to shoot the episode
mostly with just one camera.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">The
trend (for a long time) in TV is to get two or three or more cameras on a scene
and blast away getting as many “cuts” as possible.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">But fundamentally, this means that those shots will need to
be shot on longer lenses (so the cameras stay out of each others way), they will be
less designed, more random and more “general.”</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">By the same token, the more cameras one adds, pointed at
different parts of the set the more general and less specific the lighting is. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I wanted each shot to be simple but
planned and beautifully lit.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">But
that meant I was going to get less overall shots per day, and that each of the
shots I did get would have to do more and “work harder” for me.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I think, in the end, about 90% of the
episode was filmed with one camera.</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14pt;">I also proved to myself what I’ve often suspected – that as long as a
director is organized – you can get the work done just as efficiently with one
camera as with two or more.</span></div>
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Cinematographer Nate Goodman and I</div>
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Beautiful lighting and an example of </div>
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a frame within a frame</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Beautiful lighting (I think) on a CU of Lucy</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We built the juke joint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a great set made from old abandoned wood – the floor
was uneven and décor was period perfect.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We hired jitterbug dancers and our costume designer, Mari-An Ceo, did
her usual impeccable wardrobe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In
shooting the first scene, where our heroes, arrive I tried to shoot the scene
from Mason’s point-of-view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is
the character who loved this period and it’s music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I staged the scene so that Mason was in the lead and I moved
the camera on stedicam, choreographing dancers and patrons through the
foreground, trying to create energy and movement – I moved into a big close up
of mason and Paterson Joseph conveyed such joy as he walked into it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both Paterson and I were keenly aware
that this was his first time visiting the past and, unlike the rest of the
troops who’ve now done it dozens of time – the past is an amazing time for him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When our characters first arrived in the past, I had the
idea to try to shoot the scene all in one shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a few challenges to this…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first plan was, of course, to move
the whole lifeboat out into the fields of Santa Clarita county (doubling for
Texas) but the lifeboat is huge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>To get it out there would mean getting an oversized load permit, a huge
flatbed truck and transporting it with a police escort.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was also the fear that it could
easily be damaged in transport. The lifeboat, despite how sturdy it looks on
camera, is made of wood and molded foam and plastic and is actually kind of
fragile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The second idea was to create a blue screen lifeboat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pretty simple really – just a hole cut
in a piece of bluescreen-painted plywood, on a platform on in front of a blue
screen on another platform.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
only problem was the VFX team wanted something real wherever the characters
physically interacted with the lifeboat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>This meant we needed to take a small portion of the lifeboat –
specifically the round metal ring that the character’s hands interact with as
they climb out, and the tracks that their feet interact with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We built this structure out in the
field and all was well.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now we had budgeted to have 3 or four shots of the lifeboat
in the scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My idea, which I
wasn’t sure would work until I’d rehearsed with the cast, was to shoot the
scene all in one shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There
weren’t many scenes in this script that I felt could be done this way – but this
was one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The vision I had was to
crane down out of the sky and discover the lifeboat – as we found it the
characters would be seen exiting the ship and Paterson, who essentially had a monologue
would come forward into the foreground and play out to camera.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> When he threw up, Mason would drop below frame and then t</span>he rest of the cast would pass him one by one and the camera would move back away as they
passed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A very simple shot
actually, and I argued that it would only be one shot instead of three or
four.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Of course the “one shot” was
53 seconds long and every frame had to be tracked… But hey it looked great.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Final product (the lifeboat in the b.g. is all digital)</div>
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Abigale and I are both outstanding in our field </div>
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(Get it? "out standing in our field" #grandpajokes)</div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">That day we shot the lifeboat scene was a big day but one of
the most fun. In addition the “arrival scene” I just described, we also shot
the “Robert Johnson hitchhiking” scene and the “Gas Station scene” and the
“Exterior Juke Joint”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">I had a fun moment with Paterson on the road during the
hitchhiking scene.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This episode,
obviously, belonged to Mason.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
it was the first time his character got to go to the past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, Paterson Joseph has been a joy to
work with all along, but here it was my honor to work with him as he got to stretch
out in his role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are so many
moments that he got to play with – drunk in the beginning, amazed at being in
the past, in awe of being in the presence of the Blues Legends at the juke
joint, and mostly the beautiful (I think) scene where Rufus compels Mason to
not quit and we see the depth of affection between these two men.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But, on the day on the road, there was a moment that made me
smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paterson and I were alone
briefly by the 1930’s car and he said, “This is fantastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It really feels like I’ve made it right
now, more so than all the other work I’ve done in the U.S.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think of myself as a boy in England
and what my dreams were.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And here
I am in an American suit from the 30’s, driving and American car, in America,
and it just feels great!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
couldn’t help but smile.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What a
nice moment to share.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Another one of my favorite moments from set happened later
that night, during the scene outside of the gas station.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of the cast were killing it, and
Kamal had his biggest speech.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
was doing great and my only direction to him was to know that, dig deep and
find the love of the music he was talking about giving up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved the scene and so did Slem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I called “cut” on one set up, Slem
ran over to the cast with a big smile of his own. “Man,” he said, “This is so
awesome.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have three strong
black men all from different parts of the world, all with different accents all
in the same scene.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It was another great moment on an episode of TV that was
very special for me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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3 fine gentlemen</div>
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Two episodes aired back-to-back tonight. The first hour was written by
Raven Metzner, and I must compliment him on the execution. Raven was a
great addition to the team this year. He really took responsibility and
solved problems very effectively as they came up. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Raven's basic story always stayed the same from the time it
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into </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">a dream state within the cocoon. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But the nature of the
dream state and what happened within it changed drastically. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In the original
concept Tom was going to experience life in Boston in the normal pre-invasion
world. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was going to experience all of the key moments of life
with Lexi that a father does with a daughter. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Birthdays,
graduations, boyfriend breakups, and a wedding. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">It was a beautiful
outline – but realistically we couldn’t have pulled it off for the
budget. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Since we never film in the modern world it would mean doing
everything differently that we normally do it. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">We would have had to find
all new locations, bought all new wardrobe for every cast member – and weddings
are expensive for any show. </span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Once Raven grasped this, he regrouped and changed-up the
concept without batting an eye. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I think the re-boot was deeper and stronger (as well as being
more practical)… I loved how – in a dream that she and Tom are sharing – we get
to see Lexi's vulnerability and her fears of rejection by her father. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Anyway – it was
smart. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">And Raven came up on set the whole time and oversaw the
shoot. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">His input was valuable and constructive.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also Olatunde Osuname returned. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He was instantly
well-liked by cast and crew alike after directing episode 7. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">If you remember from
the ep 7 blog, he is very new to TV and directing in general. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Other than some shorts
and a cool feature film that he wrote, produced and directed called “THE FOURTH
KIND,” he had never done any TV. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">But he handled a complex episode 7 masterfully.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Originally another director was slated to do this episode,
but he fell out for personal reasons. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As this became known, Noah and the rest of the cast began
lobbying hard for Olatunde. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I agreed, but cold hard experinence has taught me to be
cautious. </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The director’s cut of episode 7 hadn’t been turned in yet –
and, even though I expected it to be very good, </span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I delayed making the
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episode... These kind of story-within-a-story shows are hard. And
depicting dreamworld reality and dream-time is very hard to do. I think
Olatunde did beyond a good job. I think he did an exceptional job.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">He did so many clever things within this episode that are
100% directorial. He used two photo doubles for Scarlett Byrne to create
the moments when Lexi was appearing and re-appearing around Tom. His
transitions within the dream were all very well planned, for instance the one
when Weaver and Tom fall off the roof and Tom lands alone. Those and many
other moments were masterfully controlled. I really like this episode 11
and think Olatunde did a great, great job.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">In fact (and again this was a decision supported by cast,
crew, Dreamworks, etc.) It was decided that Olatunde would be the person
to replace me in Season 5, when I decided not to return to the show.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My time on this show has been a pleasure. As I have
tried to convey in these pages (screens?) - the cast and crew of this show were
a close-knit bunch who I truly love. The undertaking of making this show, in the way that we make it, was rigourously hard - as we battled long hours,
frigidly cold nights, and a daunting scale of production. I am very, very
proud of it. Not every episode. Not every moment. But in the
main I feel proud of the series and I do feel that I can lay my head on my
pillow at night knowing I worked my hardest and did my best to bring you
quality entertainment.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I also owe a debt of gratitude to Mr. Steven Spielberg and to
Darryl Frank and Justin Falvey at Dreamworks (now Amblin Television) for hiring
me in the first place and for trusting me a with huge amount of responsibility
and autonomy. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Similarly, but also "In Other News," the
announcement was made this week that</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="color: windowtext; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="http://deadline.com/2014/08/michael-wright-tnt-tbs-head-programming-to-depart-825402/" target="_blank">Michael Wright is leavingTNT</a></span>. I have mentioned Mr. Wright only a few times in this blog, but
not enough. Michael Wright was the head of programming at TNT for the
last 12 years. He developed FALLING SKIES and shepherded it, quite well,
for the whole time I was there. He said repeatedly in notes meetings,
that he wasn't just a network executive when it came to our show... He
was a fan. In my experience this was absolutely true. He was an
absolute dream to work for. On the one hand he cared passionately about
the show, and was insistent on a handful of elements always being retained in
the series. Specifically: That humanity never give up hope; That the
Mason family and family in general are the heart of the show; And that Tom was
the leader and the center of the story - a man with intellectual knowledge
forced by circumstances to become a hero and a leader. Beyond those
elements, and a few others, he gave us, as artists, enormous freedom.
Unlike many other studios where I have worked, he operated from a philosophy
that seemed to be: "I have hired an excellent group of film-makers and now
I am going to let them do their job." This approach is unbelievably
rare and it is very inspirational. In my opinion it made me, as a key
film-maker on the series,</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><u><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">more</span></u><span style="background: white; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> responsible,
not less responsible for the production of each episode. Anyway - it was
a pleasure working under him. I hope our paths cross again.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Adam Kane came back to direct tonight's episode. He's a great guy and I'm very grateful that he's consistently returned to do episode's for us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He always does great work and cares about the details and the big picture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Four years of one show is a journey... There's an experience of digging in and an aspect of enduring... And through it all friendships and very close work relationships are formed. With Adam... And all of the other directors, especially those who have returned over the years to do multiple episodes. I owe them my gratitude.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most shows don't come as easily or traditionally to me. My agent, at the time, called up and said "They'd like you to meet on the new Untitled Steven Spielberg Alien Invasion series. He gave me some more parameters about it and I said "sure."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So I went to Amblin, sat in a dark room by myself and watched a version of the pilot episode. Shortly after I met Justin Falvin and Darryl Frank and Lindsey Springer who all work for Mr. Spielberg and were producing the series and at the end of that 1 hour meeting I more or less had the job.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I first met Noah Wyle on the phone - I introduced myself and told him I was going to be aboard, we had a great conversation about why he had done the pilot in the first place and what mattered to him. I was very impressed by his intelligence and articulateness. A week or so later we met face to face at a diner and formalized the work relationship that had yet to begin. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(It's funny, my first ever experience working as an on-set producer/director was on a show called NASH BRIDGES, written by Carlton Cuse and starring Don Johnson. It was a trial by fire - but am overall great experience and I emerged from it a significantly better director, particularly in terms of working with actors and getting the best possible performance out of them. Don Johnson really trained me in the art of how to work with a star and how to build that all-important relationship. And, with FALLING SKIES I brought what I had learned into my relationship with Noah Wyle.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I called Moon on the phone next. She had been out of the country and so it took a few days for her to return. I liked her right away, just by her voice and her laugh. She was (and is) simply put... cool. We got to be very good friends the first season in Toronto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I eventually called everyone, except for Will Patton. I didn't meet him until just a few days before shooting in Toronto.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are a lot of complex aspects to being the overseeing director on a series. I discuss many of them in this blog all the time - and they are the critical, but sometimes mundane nuts and bolts of figuring out <u>how</u> to make each episode week to week. But one that I maybe neglect to mention enough, is the relationship I have with the cast - it is ongoing and <u>must</u> be a relationship built on trust an honesty. If it isn't, if I am <u>ever</u> deceptive or manipulative - even if it means I get my way in that moment - at some point in the future that dishonesty will come back to bite me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Noah is a gentleman and a dilligent artist. He cares very deeply about his craft and has studied it very hard. He cares deeply about this show and has many opinions. He's very involved in the series, but the very nature of where I am in the information chain, means that I know some things that are coming down the road in future scripts and so on before he does. So I am a conduit of that information to him and visa versa. I take it upon myself to inform him (and the rest of the cast) of what's coming up, and also to listen to his (and their) questions and concerns And I take it upon myself to resolve those concerns, as quickly as possible, by myself if I'm capable or with whoever else I need - sometimes the head writer, sometimes Grace Gilroy our line producer, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FALLING SKIES is a great show to work on in that it can be huge - some of the battle sequences I've directed on this show are as big as anything I've seen on TV. But it also has many heartfelt moments of bonding - father to son, husband to wife, soldier to soldier. So that's been great.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's been great to have a cast who really care and work hard to elevate the material every week.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh yeah, Adam Kane was forced/cajoled into being Secret Santa in the Falling Skies Production office. Hilarity ensued and he was a most good sport about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In front of the camera and behind the scenes we are a close knit group.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Moon had a birthday party for her one year old daughter and <u>everybody</u> showed up to a curling party. I don't know if you've ever been curling - it looks kind of dopey (to us 'Mericans) at the winter olympics. But it is tricky and definitely harder than it looks. A ton of us piled onto the ice and threw/slid these big heavy objects reffered to as "rocks."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Director of photography Barry Donlevey and I teamed up against Sarah Carter and her boyfriend. Now Barry is Canadian and I thought he'd do pretty good. But, Sarah Carter single handedly kicked everyone's ass. She kept acting innocent and naive, like "Wow I have no idea how I got the rock perfectly in the center and knocked your rock out of play at the same time..." Like she was all innocent and it was pure beginner's luck. Later I remembered that she grew up in the frozen land of <a href="http://www.winnipeg.ca/interhom/" target="_blank">Winnipeg</a> and pressed her. Maybe she was guilty, or maybe she just didn't care at that point... But she finally confessed that she had been on a curling <u>team</u> in high school... A frigging <u>curling</u> <u>team</u>... A total ringer that girl was!!! Thank god we were only playing for nachos not Canadian Dollars!</span><br />
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<span id="goog_558687967"></span><span id="goog_558687968"></span><br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-20982843498915882572014-08-17T22:43:00.000-07:002014-08-18T13:03:13.179-07:00SEASON 4: EPISODE 9 - "TIL DEATH DO US PART"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here's the truth. Episode 9 was hard. I directed it, and I should have known what was coming. This was that episode which always falls in the (un)sweet spot right before the christmas break, when we'd been working hard for 4 months, the days are cold and short (on December 21 in Vancouver it gets pitch dark by 4:30 in the afternoon and it doesn't get light until about 9:30 in the morning.) In general, everyone's nerves are frayed and we were dragging ass to the mid-season finish line. Of course as soon as we finished shooting episode 9, we got a 2 week Christmas/New Year's break and we came back to finish the final 3 episodes, refreshed. In the back of our minds we knew all this - but we couldn't remember it at this time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My memories of the production are just pushing through the exhaustion, putting one foot in front of the other. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I remember that I kept calling my editor (the brilliant one-of-a-kind Donn Aron) and I kept asking him "Is it okay?" "How does it look?" He told me, on a couple of occasions, "It's going together really well, it's going to be a good episode." But, while I was shooting it, I couldn't feel it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because of the Christmas break - I didn't see the first editor's cut until early January... And, guess what - I thought it was good! It really flowed together, I had done some complex shotmaking and interesting scene staging that I was proud of. I thought the emotional arc between Tom and Anne was strong and I felt emotional when they got married at the end. I loved the story of Ben guiding Maggie with her spike-enhanced abilities and I like what happened between Hal and Ben. In fact, I think this is my favorite of the three episodes I directed this season - even though it was, by far, the lowest budgeted one. I like the stories that were told and am happy with the performances that I was able to collaborate on with the actors (Ben-Hal) (Ben-Maggie) (Tom-Anne) etc.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It makes me remember what I already knew, but which is easy to forget - you can not tell when you are in the middle of filming (probably any artistic project). Never get too comfortable or too nervous - just do your best every day and it'll work itself out. (Truthfully, in the end, it's all about script - all I can do is enhance the visual aspect of the storytelling, and I can enhance and focus the scene-by-scene performances and the arc of the performance from the actors.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, back to the episode -- As I said - The prep had been hard, but I had a good plan. There was a lot of action to film at night - specifically (in the episode) from the time the Espheni drone bombs the sight where Tom and co. are grabbing the Volm cache, to the end of the firefight with </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">the Espeheni (cum Nazi) Youth Brigade - there was a lot of planning to do. Between the explosion, the fire and all of the shooting and running around - it was a lot of work to organize. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Falling Skies looks great when we film at night - but it means that the crew and the cast and I are filming at night - <u>all</u> night (until 4 or 5 AM - once until 6:30AM) in the sub-sub-zero weather. I'm not complaining - it's just part of the job - but it takes a certain degree of physical and emotional preperation (a lot more than filming in 75 degree sunny Los Angeles, for instance.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a director, a scene like that has a lot of moving parts. The way to approach it is to mentally break it down into bite sized bits until it's broken up into it's smallest parts (for a director thats "shots") - so in this case here's all the parts (I'm not even counting the daytime work.):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. Tom and the the others re-group, Matt is gone, Kent and the other Team-Leaders arrive and shoot at them</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">.Tom and Anne break off and shoot two Team-Leaders following them</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. Tom and Ann get shot at by Kent, They run for cover, Anne is shot but manages to slide to safety, Tom takes cover in a cargo container, Tom and Kent exchange dialogue, Kent kicks over gas and fires at it the cargo container catches on fire, Anne runs to save Tom and Tom shoots Kent, Tom stands over Kent as he dies (btw - that's <u>a lot</u> of beats in one sequence)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">.Matt chases Mira and gets shot with a dart in the neck, other Team Leaders appear</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. Weaver shoots at the Team leaders. Matt runs Team Weaver and Cochise stun blast the Team Leaders. Weaver and Cochise save Matt. Mira escapes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So here's the process I have to go through directorially:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First I have to find a location that I like and that suits all the work we have to do (in this case this meant it had to include the scenes approaching and leaving the Volm cache sight as well.) This takes a day or two on it's own. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our location manager and production designer have thought about it and present me, usually, with photographs from a number of places that might work. I'll narrow that down to two or three from the photos. In this case, though, the two or three I selected happened to be pretty far from each other - so it took a couple of days just to find them. At each place, Bryan Knight, the assistant director; Rob Grey, the production designer; Nate Goodman, the director of photography; Grace Gilroy, the line producer and I walk all the choices discussing the pros and cons and feasibility of each place. This includes, not only, how does it look, but mundane things like - can we get the big night lights where we need them to be? Is there enough road access that we can work fast enough? And so on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At each place that has potential, I have to walk around and, at least, rough in how I would stage the scenes. I have to work quickly, shooting from the hip (but knowing in the back of my mind that I can change my mind a little later - as long as the location has enough flexibility to do so.) We go back to the production office and discuss exactly how we'll shoot the scenes - being as specific a possible. After we've done that (which will take a few hours twice or so over a day or two)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> we then try to figure out how many hours, realistically, it will take to shoot the scenes. One of the best ways to be efficient is to shoot out lighting directions - i.e. shoot all the shots facing (for instance) west/southwest and then later shoot all the shots facing </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">(for instance)</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">east/northeast... This is logical but may cause me to have to shoot way out of story order - which can be hard on the actor (and my) brains. But night lighting is one of the biggest time consuming factors. The other is transportation time - i.e., how long does it take to physically get equipment from base camp to set? How long will it take to get the actors from hair & makeup to the set? etc. TV is a game of inches - we have 12 budgeted shooting hours per day - but even if I went over that (which I </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">can't</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> do consistently and keep my job) - the </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">sun</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">will</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">come</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><u style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">up</u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> at some point and I will have to stop.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">After all that, we add it up, and, inevitably, the first couple of times through - Guess what? To shoot what's written and what I think are all the shots needed to tell the story will take 18 hours more than we have over the three 12-hour days we have to shoot."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At that point I have to (a) go back to the writers and tell them we have to reduce the script. For some reason, they are never happy with this. I try to bring specific ideas to the table that can cut beats without dissembling the key story points. (b) I also have to compromise what I want to shoot. I have to, literally, play a version of "Name That Tune" in my mind... Like "OK, I can tell that story in 4 shots, not the 12 I originally wanted." For some reason at first this always seems impossible - although even after I've cut it down to what I feel is the <u>absolute minimum</u> number of shots in prep, on the day of shooting I usually have to drop a few more.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All this is pretty normal, but tedious. And we, frequently, have to do this on several story areas. The shootout I've been describing... Maggie's gunplay spike-practice scene... And the final wedding all had to get smaller than what was in the original script.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, thirteen-year-old, </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 17px;"> </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4524361/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Desiree Ross</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> who plays Matt's somewhat-love-interest, Mira. Maxim was nervous and excited that he was going to have his (I think) first on-screen kiss and asked me frequently how the casting was going. We read <u>a lot</u> of young ladies in Vancouver... A few where close.. But there was always some missing quality. I kept trying to talk myself into one or the other, but I knew in my heart it wasn't right. Meanwhile the casting directors in Los Angeles were reading a few young ladies. I really <u>didn't</u> want to cast this role out of Los Angeles. That would mean additional monies for flights, hotel rooms and per diems, which (because a minor would also need an adult supervisor to accompany them) adds up to a lot of money, which could otherwise be allocated to other areas of the series.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But then our casting director called and said, "There's a girl out of South Carolina that you really should see." Well, if I didn't want to cast out of L.A. I <u>really</u> didn't want to cast out of the East Coast... that's a way more expensive pair of plane tickets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But then I saw Desiree's tape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She just stole it. That's what happens when the right person reads. They are just right and you just have to forget all the other stuff.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I love working with young people and have done it a lot... (My resume includes a large number of Disney Channel movies in the 1990's). I find them to be, generally, eager and spontaneous and open. Desiree was certainly that, she brought a great naturalness to the role, and was willing to push and take chances whenever I directed her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The other actor is Dakota Daulby, who plays Kent. He <u>is</u> from Vancouver (whew)... He had read last year for role of the harnessed kid who shows up with the skitter at Charleston to tell Tom the state of the skitter rebellion. He had been my first choice for that role, because I thought he had an eerie other-worldiness - but I was overruled by a group vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This year, he read for Kent and was excellent. David Eick particularly responded to his audition. He had long flowing hair when I first met him, and immediately after his audition I asked if he'd be willing to cut it if he got the part. You'd be suprised how many actors balk at this. But Dakota was game for a Nazi haircut. He said he'd never played a bad guy before... Which is hard for me to believe. I'm sure he'll play more. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One last thing which may be of interest... When the show was first edited together it was about two minutes short (I'm sure all of you wise TV viewers know that TV episodes - at least on commercial stations - have to be of a specific length.) because this episode was an under-pattern budget episode we cut it too close to the bone and we ended up with less cut film than we needed.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That meant we had to shoot an additional scene.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whenever this happens (It's happened before - in Season 1 <u>a lot</u> ) - it's always tricky because the next episodes are shooting and specific cast members aren't available. Also whatever we shoot has to be clean and simple no VFX or FX and not too many characters. I suggested that maybe there was a scene to shoot that could involve Ben and Maggie - either before or after the jump - going into more depth about the powers... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Well, Carol Barbee took this idea and ran with it. She wrote a scene that, I think, is one of the best in the episode. Sarah Carter and Connor loved the words and the emotion and where it took their characters. I put it on it's feet (i.e. staged it) as a long walk and talk that could be shot in just two angles (with two sizes). We shot the whole thing in less than two hours... I love it when stuff like that happens.</span><br />
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<br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-86095154203487983462014-08-11T08:37:00.000-07:002014-08-11T08:37:50.380-07:00SEASON 4, EPISODE 8: "A THING WITH FEATHERS"<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">PRODUCTION DESIGNER ROB GRAY - WHOO-HOOO - AND THEY PAY US TO DO THIS STUFF!!!</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-2785170919808118692014-08-04T11:57:00.003-07:002014-08-10T19:23:53.989-07:00FALLING SKIES: SEASON 4, EPISODE 7 "SATURDAY NIGHT MASSACRE"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Who exactly died? And who could still survive?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Seychelle Gabriell who plays Lourdes is the actress and character who has been here the longest... Since the pilot. And Seychelle is a team favorite behind-the-scenes, sweet and funny and an all-around positive influence. Moon Bloodgood and she were particularly close. It was very sad for us to see her go - and, when I tell actors that they're dying, sometimes I have only the cold comfort of telling them that "At least you're going in a really cool way." I don't know how it felt for you, watching at home - but as I read the first outline for this episode, I was certainly surprised by the suddenness of the way Lourdes goes and the blood running out of her eyes - melting from the inside - was, well - cool.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ryan Robbins was next. Ryan and I first worked together on a SMALLVILLE epsiode entitled <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallville_(season_3)#Episodes" target="_blank">"Exile"</a>. It was, I think the <a href="http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Exile" target="_blank">Season 3 premiere</a>, and Ryan played a character that Lex encountered on a desert island, who ultimately turned out to be a figment of Lex's imagination. Ryan is one of the hardest working, most talented and most-frequently employed actors based in Vancouver Canada. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He's been great as Tector, a part originally intended to be a very small side-character, part of Pope's gang. But Ryan made the character his own and his part grew and expanded as the writer's saw what he could do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for Robert Sean Leonard - he was originally recommended by Noah when the part of Dr. Kadar first appeared. He and Noah are friends and had worked together long ago on a movie called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swing_Kids_(film)" target="_blank">SWING KIDS</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Besides his immense craft, Robert brought with him a playful cynicism and all-around good humor, which was quite welcome on the long cold Vancouver nights. Besides Noah, he became good friends with Connor Jessup (Probably because they both share a near-genius intelligence.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tonight's writer's Brad and David invented Kadar, so I guess it's fitting that they, now, do away with him.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And finally - Sarah Carter... Well, the question is - is she dead? I don't think we know yet - but there were a lot of casualties tonight... So the more the merrier. As I've well documented, Sarah Carter and I go way back and I have a special fondness for her. We have worked well together, again since <a href="http://smallville.wikia.com/wiki/Alicia_Baker" target="_blank">SMALLVILLE</a>, where she played Alicia Baker. I was the one who originally recommended her to Dreamworks and TNT in the very second episode of this series - I just had this feeling that, even though she had never exactly played a badass character like "Maggie" before - that she could do the job. In tonight's episode, Maggie disappears during the mad scramble after the explosion, and we find her buried under a collapsed building in the final montage. If it's for real, then... Her death makes me very, very sad</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Finally a few words about tonight's director </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1069989/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Olatunde Osuname</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. Olatunde was recommended to me by Will Patton. (Notice the pattern - almost <u>everyone</u> ends up having been recommended by <u>someone</u>.) They had worked together on a small movie called <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fourth_Kind" target="_blank">THE FOURTH KIND.</a> Olatunde wrote directed and produced that movie, and when I watched it - although I was strongly taking into consideration that he had directed exactly <u>zero</u> hours of TV - I saw immense promise and cleverness in that film - both conceptually and directorially.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I had a SKYPE interview with Olatunde, and he was a charming and very enthusiastic young man. He won many bonus points for being a legit fan of Falling Skies, which he proved by being able to talk about the whole series. (Many pretend to be fans when applying for a job here, but it doesn't take much investigation to find out if they've really just watched a couple of episodes and read the Wikipedia page.) I think Olatunde was actually a bit shocked he was even being considered. He has a small resume and he had just started trying to get into TV via his agency. But, Will Patton doesn't recommend people lightly. And, truthfully, I had a good gut feeling about him. We needed fresh blood, and it's always great to discover someone new. I've done it once or twice in the past - and I've found that, if I'm right, it pays dividends in two ways (a) it takes a while for the rest of the industry to learn about the your discovery - so I can "hang onto them" for awhile and (b) loyalty. People tend to stay loyal when you've given them a big break.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Olatunde came up to Vancouver early to observe, which both he and I wanted him to do. It was good because he was there during the prep of episode 4 and the shooting of episode 3 and some of episode 2. I emphasized to him from the beginning that Falling Skies is like the NFL linebacker of TV shows. "It's big, it's fast moving and if you don't keep a close eye on it's every move it'll knock you on your ass." Luckily my words were quickly proven to Mr. </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1069989/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">Osuname</a> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">as he observed the scale and scope of the work we were doing.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But... You know what, </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Olatunde</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> came through with flying colors. The cast, especially Noah, were very impressed with him constant enthusiasm and his depth of good ideas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He is, what I call, a "real" director. Which means that he wants to be involved in and make decisions on <u>every</u> aspect of the show. He also sees beyond the script, and wants to add to and enhance the story beyond what is, merely, on the page. A good example of this is the final montage that takes place in the episode - where the camera floats over all of the fallen... Lourdes... Kadar... Tector... Maggie... and the same look and style brings us to the final moment of the show with Tom. These moments did not appear in the script - it was Olatunde's idea to create this montage, which he felt, with music would be very emotionally powerful. He was right - and that kind of instinct resulted in him being invited back right away. (More on that in a future blog.) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As he went to the floor (i.e. shooting) I impressed upon him my Joe Montana philosophy. (An old NFL reference I know - but one that has always motivated me.) The job of a TV director, like an NFL quarterback is to win the game - <u>in regulation time</u>. By which I mean - it's not enough to just shoot great film - the job requirements is that you do it in the allotted time (12 shooting hours per day!). The Joe Montana part comes in if you can also do it with flair, while inspiring the team, and pull out a few last second victories.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's it. More another day.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In which I heckle Curt Miller, Our VFX Producer to "Get over there and get some sh*t done!"</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ah, Pope - what is your fate? Will you be next?</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The <a href="http://shelf3d.com/sVlJ5uvUmB4#Smallville 4x11 Clark and Alicia Ice Skating" target="_blank">above moment</a> is, literally, one of my favorite moments I've ever directed - the first time I directed Ms. Carter... I really hope she's not dead</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And you, sweet Mira - you just got here - it would be inconcievable to kill you off so soon - and yet, fate is a cruel dance partner?!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Olatunde at his first meeting, contemplating all that is in store for him</span></td></tr>
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<br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com13tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-7297148283460381782014-07-27T21:30:00.000-07:002014-07-27T21:30:53.421-07:00SEASON 4, EPSIODE 6: "DOOR NUMBER 3"<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">DIRECTED BY: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000408/" target="_blank">Jonathan Frakes</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WRITTEN BY: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3130312/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Melissa Glenn</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">First off, veteran director Jonathan Frakes, who is good
friends with Noah Wyle, was back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And newcomer (to us), writer Melissa Glenn was up in Canada for most of
the shoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both of them are a lot
of fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, while on the one hand
this was an episode shot during the drudge of Vancouver’s November rainy season
- this was also an episode, where, behind-the-scenes we laughed a lot and had a
good time.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s also the season when we have to do a couple of bottle
show to make up for the financial sins of the earlier part of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this case, Melissa had designed an
episode that all took place within the confines of the Chinatown mall, where
Lexi’s contingent has made camp all season.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There has been an inevitable pull as the 2<sup>nd</sup>
Mass. slowly comes back together – and this week, all parties are reunited
again after their separation in the opening minutes of the opening episode.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We also had to do this episode in one less shooting day than
our norm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve done that in the
past, and, as I said the script was compressed to be in only one major
location…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But still it is a big
story with many characters who have many, many points of view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The actors also have many points of
view about their character’s point of view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And there were numerous scenes, more than usual, with a
large number of cast members in each scene – as the two factions grow within
the 2<sup>nd</sup> Mass – The Pro-Lexi faction and the anti-Lexi faction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, all in all, Mr. Frake’s task – to keep
these varied balls in the air – was far from easy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The scene where our heroes come together was an extended sequence
that slowly revealed more and more characters as it went…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was a very important scene to get
right – and as such was one that Director Frakes, and alternating Director of
Photography <a href="http://barry%20donlevy/" target="_blank">Barry Donlevy</a> and I discussed quite a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It all had to be staged in a long, but
rather narrow pathway that leads into the Chinatown – dubbed, by us, as “The
Kill Zone.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(To know why it has
that name you’ll have to watch <u>next</u> week’s episode).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The trick was to stage the scene in such a way so that each
new character or group of characters would be revealed in a realistic way, but
with impact…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So we walked the
location ahead of time a number of times and discussed “Hal’s team will start
here” “They’ll be stopped here.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>“Tom and his group will be revealed here.” Etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was also emphasized, quite a
bit, that we had to take our moments with each reunion…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom and Hal had seen each other
recently but Hal and Tom and Mat had not seen Ben for months – so the emotion
of the Mason boys getting back together had to be given it’s time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I especially liked the performance that
Moon Bloodgood gave – as Anne sees Tom – it’s complex and sweet – but not
gushy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Anyway – knowing the importance of the scene, Mr. Frakes
took his time shooting it and got us many angles and cuts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He shot it from the wide shots we like
so much, he shot the Close-Ups we need, and he and Barry also decided to shoot
a number of almost voyeuristic, sniper-like angles – which were interesting in
that they added tension.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the final cut, that’s in the episode you watched tonight,
we really concentrate on Tom/Noah and move with him as he goes from character
to character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Other than a quick
cut of Hal hugging Ben, and Weaver clasping hands with some other 2<sup>nd</sup>
Mass’ers – we stick with Tom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But,
you should know, that Mr. Frakes staged a number of other scenes, giving
everybody their time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These
were all in the first cut of the episode – but it was just too long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we often have to in the editing
room, we have to make our choices about what we think really matters – who are
we really following.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">I’m happy with the sequence and, as he so often does,
composer Noah Sorota put the cherry on top of the cake with the score that
plays under the images – it’s sweeping and grand, but with bittersweet notes
and not too sappy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I really love
the work he does for us.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A big project on this episode was the creation of Lexi’s
cocoon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Production Designer Rob
Gray had to build something quickly and affordably that looked like it was of
Espheni organic design, which could be self-supporting, could support
Scarlett’s weight, which could glow and pulse in this episode, and which in the
next episode – well, I can’t spoil too far ahead – but, let’s just say, which
would “evolve” in episode 7.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A big task.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Luckily we had rough story outlines well in advance – and so
we knew this project was coming.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rob
actually built a wall in Lexi’s domicile, with a big circular doorway opening
that allowed him to build the cocoon into it – using supports between the walls
to do so – knowing that the cocoon was coming six episodes down the road.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It’s worth noting, also, that when we chose the Chinatown
location – we did so knowing well certain very restrictive limitations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The location we used is the <a href="http://vancouverchinesegarden.com/" target="_blank">Sun Yat SenGardens</a> in downtown Vancouver (You can go there if you’re ever in the city).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">It was a brilliant and unique idea on Rob and line producer
Grace Gilroy’s part. As I’ve discussed in an earlier blog, the writer’s
original conception was for Lexi’s world to be inside an abandoned shopping
mall, or Costco.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These type of
places aren’t readily available for shooting, the numerous products needed, in
volume, are hard to obtain and harder to license.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(TNT won’t allow us to advertise within the show except for
in very limited and pre-approved ways.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The idea of making Lexi’s world in a mall in Chinatown was unique,
realistic (many cities have such malls in their Chinatowns… Los Angeles
certainly does as does Vancouver.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We in production never quite agreed on whether this mall, in our story,
was in Philadelphia or in Georgia – both were close enough to North Carolina to
be credible – and, in the end, we fudged, and different internal factions held
onto their opinions of where we were.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sun Yut Sen had an outer garden which we made look like the
exterior courtyard of a mall – there was a nearby true mall, which we used in
the opening episode when Ben woke up (which had very restrictive middle-of-the-night
shooting hours) and the inner garden with this amazing bonsai garden and tea
house – which we turned into Lexi’s inner temple.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The problem from Rob’s construction point-of-view is that
the inner temple is a 18<sup>th</sup> century Chinese structure that was
imported to Vancouver in the early 1900’s.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a work of art made with no nails. The aforementioned
restrictions are that we could not nail into it or attach <u>anything</u> to
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rob’s set pieces (and all of
our production lighting and grip equipment) had to be freestanding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A challenge!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For Mr. Frakes another challenge appeared – in that these
locations I just mentioned are not directly connected.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Neither is the exterior bombed out
Chinatown street that the characters move through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rob built transitional pieces…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bombed out entrance on the street set matched a bombed out
entrance in the outer garden.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A
circular portal in the inner garden matched a circular portal in the inner
garden – but none of those three venues <u>actually</u> <u>connect</u>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it was Mr. Frake’s and Mr. Donlevy’s
job to give the illusion of connection by double shooting the entrances and the
scenes that take place at the entrances (a lot of them in this episode!)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Byrne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was supposed to be
asleep in one frozen position, supposedly in the nude, for almost the duration
of the episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, one of our
first tasks was to get her into a wireframe version of the cocoon and figure
out a position that she could lay in, supported by the infrastructure of Rob’s
cocoon and by some hidden padding – for long lengths of time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But, no matter how long she was able to stay still in there,
we had three full 12 hour days scheduled in the cocoon room – and there was no
way Scarlett, or anybody, would be able to stay still that long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, Todd Masters makeup effects group,
also took a mold of Scarlett’s face and made a very excellent replica “Lexi face”
which then attached to a pre-existing dummy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both Scarlett and the dummy were dressed in full body
nude-colored suits, and we switched back and forth between them as needed when
we shot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(All of this is
documented in photos below.)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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episode, holding perfectly still inside of that cocoon.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. THE FINAL PRODUCT ... A SLEEPING BEAUTY .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. DIRECTOR JONATHAN FRAKES REACTS WHEN I TELL HIM @ THE BUDGET AND SCHEDULE </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. FRAKES AND HIS OLD PAL NOAH WYLE .</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. FRAKES AND LINE PRODUCER, GRACE GILROY .</span></td></tr>
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<br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-71416222661421771132014-07-20T23:12:00.000-07:002014-07-22T15:41:26.470-07:00SEASON 4, EPISODE 5 - "MIND WARS"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SEASON 4, EPISODE 5 - "MIND WARS"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">WRITTEN BY: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0739063/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">BRUCE MARSHALL ROMANS</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">This fifth episode of our
fourth season is notable in that it was directed by our director of
photography, Nathaniel Goodman.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nate and I worked on HEROES
for three years, seasons 1-3, after which time I departed the show .<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nate - who aspired to direct a HEROES
episode from early on – got his chance in the fourth season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The episode turned out very well, I
thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nate and I became friends
on that series and stayed in touch in the years between HEROES and FALLING
SKIES.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first season of FALLING
SKIES was photographed by another frequent-collaborator of mine – a fellow
named Chris Faloona (whose exploits are well documented in the season 1 FALLING
SKIES blog.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">The time between seasons on
this show can be harrowing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
finished filming Season One in November 2010 and TNT picked up Season 2 in
July 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr. Faloona, a highly
sought-after fellow with a family to feed, had found other employment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(It’s always the same each year – in
fact, notice that, while we finished shooting Season 4 in February, Season 5
has only just this week been picked up – the cast and crew over the years have
become more confident that the pickups are coming – but it’s all a bit of a nailbiting experience nonetheless.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">But I digress – what I meant
to say was, that while it was at first sad to lose my trusted cohart, Mr.
Faloona, my heart was soon gladdened when I found out that Nate was available –
having just finished a year on the BBC series <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0485301/?ref_=nm_flmg_cam_1" target="_blank">TORCHWOOD</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">It actually took a bit of
convincing on my part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nate wasn’t
<u>that</u> interested in taking over a second year show with an already
established look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It became my job
to convince him that season 2 was going to be a complete re-invention from
Season 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I meant it too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m proud of FALLING SKIES first season
– but I always felt that we got a bit buried in the high school – and that it
limited the scope of the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Season 2 had a new head writer who wanted to have no locked-down sets or
locations and desired to take the show on the road, literally, in a caravan of
vehicles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond that<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>we were moving from Toronto to
Vancouver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt that there was a
trust and confidence in me from Dreamworks and TNT after the successful first
season, which gave me the confidence to expand our visual palatte.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All of these things gave me assurance
when convincing Nate that we were <u>really</u> going<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to change the look.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: large;">Once he took the job, Nate
and I had many, many conversations about how we’d develop the look of the
series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">First of all, came
“what not to change” but what we could make better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most fundamental thing for me, came from my first
meeting with Mr. Spielberg way back before Season1. At that time he had said
two key things:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">1. “No TV
close-ups” - and he expanded upon that by saying that he wanted the show to be
cinematic - meaning wide. He wanted the audience to have to decide who
they are supposed to look at in any scene. So wide shots and group shots
should be the norm and close-ups should be used only occasionally. He was not
interested in a show where editing from single to single was the driving style.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">2. “Children of Men” -
was the touchstone movie. This referred first to the tonal quality, i.e.
to make the environment, the destruction and rubble and smoke and the urgency
of the dramatic situation really important. But stylistically it meant
(a) that everything (or almost everything) would be filmed hand-held.
That we would “follow” our characters… And also that the idea
was that long takes and long masters were to be encouraged. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both of these
instructions became lifesavers as we went into production, because I frequently
found that the only way to get through a day with numerous scenes which had 7
to 12 characters in the same scene, and all of them talking, was to do long
takes and to limit coverage. If I (or any other director) tried to shoot
close-up singles of every cast member in a scene - we would not make the
day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">With Nate, we were
able to clarify and refine this as we went, by realizing that we had to be
clear about whose scene is it? Most frequently the scenes were Tom’s scene.
But sometimes they were, say, an Anne’s scene or a Ben's scene and occasionally they were split -
say Weaver/Tom or Pope/Maggie. As we discovered, through trial and error
that, the most efficient way to shoot the show was to block a scene and then
only shoot a close-up of the person or person’s whose scene it was. If it
was a Tom scene, I’d shoot a master, then Tom’s close-up coverage, and then I
would shoot group shots (two shots and three shots) from Tom’s point of view or
over Tom’s shoulder.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The other thing that,
I think especially in season 2, became the “look” of the show - was to try to
keep the actors moving and the camera moving whenever possible. I tried
to encourage the camera operator’s to become participants in the filming - and
to make (or look like they made) snap, improvisational decisions as they went.
The philosophy we came up with was to imagine that we were embedded
journalists traveling with a group of soldiers. The camera operators were
to pretend that they did not know what was going to happen next. For
instance, rather than panning to an actor a beat before they spoke - they
should pan to the actor a beat after they spoke, so that the film would look
immediate and urgent.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the longest (and hardest) shots I've ever done which I couldn't have done without Nate's support was a long tracking shot in Season 2 episode 2, which was really four or five scenes all done in one shot - it dollied along with the cast as they packed and prepared to move out and then went up and into a bus - it was about a three-minute long continuous shot.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Another important idea
Nate brought to the table was to really try to play POV (point of view). Once
we established whose scene it was, to only shoot (for instance) Tom and what
Tom sees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Nate also encouraged
that we only to use wider lenses - mastering on 21mm lenses and doing
closeups on 35mm or 40mm lenses and, sometimes for women - using 50mm lenses
for closeups. The reasoning behind this goes to the “Children of Men”
instruction - the wider lenses keep the environment in the frame all the time.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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angles - this is to keep the characters looking “bigger than life” and heroic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I developed that philosophy on
SMALLVILLE, when I was actively looking to do a comic-book show, and Nate and I
pushed it to the limit on HEROES when we would frequently shoot our hero’s
close-ups from a basement-like low angle (like THE MALTESE FALCON and other
clssic noir movies).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On FALLING
SKIES we aren’t as rigorous with this rule since, at the end of the day, it’s a
war movie, not a comic-book movie or a noir movie.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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about how to do night lighting, which I had never heard of before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In general, where Nate and I differ
philosophically is that he is highly attached to being naturalistic, and I tend
to be more interested in being stylized and pretty than naturalistic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For instance if we were shooting a day exterior scene with
two characters facing each other, if one were backlit by the sun – Nate would
want to have the other front-lit, because that would be how it would be in real
life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I would want both characters
back-lit, reality-be-damned, because to me it looks prettier.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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lighting was to use balloon lighting and create a all-around even
soft-lighting. We actually inflate gigantic balls of silk, which are lit internally, with helium and raise them way up into the air. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">The more traditional way to do night lighting is to use a condor crane with a hard light and createa hard-backlit
“moonlight.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The look, that became
our night look, was softer and more even and oddly moodier than what I’ve
become used to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m constantly
arguing with Nate to add a bit more light into the eyes of our characters at
night and he challenges me to shoot things more unconventionally – but the grist
of our arguments has, I think, always resulted in good things.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">Beyond that, Nate has always been characterized
by boundless enthusiasm and a desire to approach each and every scene from a
unique perspective.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The thing he
always says to me, which I value highly is, “Let’s first figure out what the
scene is <u>about</u> and then we’ll figure out how best to shoot it to tell
that story.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As he did on HEROES, Nate
expressed to me and the other producers early and often, that he desired to
direct an episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It took until
the fourth season, mostly, because his contributions were so great as a
photographer that the studio and producers (myself included) were reluctant to
lose him in that role. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">When he got the chance on this episode he approached it with relish. Luckily Bruce's script was tightly crafted in terms of character - and, while a little big at first, it was not hard t(in early drafts there were more interactions with the black hornet skitters and the burn-faced overlord made more appearances in the episode).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of the more fun scenes for Nate to design was the scene where Hal taunts a mech into the open, Pope and Sarah hit it with a car, and the gigantic Volm nicknamed "Shaq" steals it's "heart." The whole sequence was storyboarded carefully, but the idea that I thought was most fun was to play hitting the mech only from inside of Pope's car. This sleight of hand saved money which actually allowed us to expand the scene and make it bigger. All in all good fun!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Written by: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1360299/?ref_=fn_nm_nm_1" target="_blank">Raven Metzner</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Directed by: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0247123/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Bill Eagles</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> fourth episode of our fourth season begins to unite our
heroes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>David Eick and writer
Raven Metzner were looking to move the character relationships down the road –
Anne is challenged as she learns about Lexi and the overlord and comes into
conflict with Lexi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writers
wanted to explore her maternal instincts in conflict with her sense of the
safety of the group.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They also wanted to explore what had begun to be set up in
the ghetto story – showing how Hal is becoming a leader in his own right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noah had advocated that Tom should
begin to see and promote his son as a leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He knew that Tom would be in conflict, because he still, in
his heart, longs for the safety of his boys above all else – but he also knows
that Hal is proving himself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is
why he gave him the big responsibility of getting the citizens out of the
ghetto – and he gave himself the more perilous job of leading the skitters
astray.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noah and Drew had several
conversations about how they thought their characters would approach the
changing dynamics between them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The hardest story of the week, for Will Patton and for all
of us, was the discovery that Jeanne Weaver had been transformed into a
skitterized human.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve told the
story before of how Will was involved in casting <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm4371603/" target="_blank">Laci J Mailey </a><u> </u></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">in the first
place.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">He was at her final
callback and read the audition scenes with her.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Over the last two years Will grew very attached to her.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Besides that, Laci is an out-and-out
doll – a hard worker and a very committed, very emotion-based actor.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When she found out she was going to die
in the episode, she was sad, but resolute.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">She figured that sooner or later this was going to happen to
her character.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I think was fun and interesting for her was the makeup
FX that Todd Masters and company applied.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She had to go in several weeks in advance and get a full body cast made.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then, on the three days her character
worked, she had a 3 to 4 hour session to get into the makeup, before filming
could begin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think, for her it
was an intense experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You know, we are up to the fourth episode and I haven’t talked
much yet about the most significant new cast member we’ve added in a while –
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2906885/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Scarlett Byrne</a> as the adult Lexi.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As many readers of this blog predicted, Lexi’s destiny was to age to
late teens/early twenties this season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Before the season began, but after we had at least a broad strokes idea
of where Lexi’s character would be going this year – we threw out a wide net in
search of young actresses to play the part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We, literally searched on every continent and every
English-speaking country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I didn’t personally see every entry,
the casting directors we had in Los Angeles (working with other casting
directors in Toronto, Vancouver, Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, London,
Sydney, Melbourne, South Africa, and I’m sure other cities) did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But myself and the producers at
Dreamworks and Mr. Eick <u>did</u> see the first cuts – about 25 young
ladies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Amongst ourselves we narrowed it down to 7 or 8
favorites.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I remember it, there
were two women from LA, one from New York, one from Atlanta (I think?) one from
Toronto, two from London and one from Melbourne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These we reviewed and discussed amongst ourselves at
length.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We agreed that we needed
to narrow it down to 2 or 3 – and that these we would have re-read with me
giving them some direction – and that these would go to TNT to narrow it down
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I remember that between the time she put herself on tape,
and when we wanted to re-tape her with direction, one of the gals had gotten
married and was on her honeymoon in Hawaii.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I ended up talking to the poor thing in the hotel and the
casting directors got one of the shows that shoots in Hawaii (Hawaii 5-O, I
think?) to tape her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What I liked about Scarlett , from the beginning, was that
there was something special and other-worldly about her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, I believed if you morphed Noah
Wyle and Moon Bloodgood together you could get her.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I got on a Skype call with her, and had a lengthy
conversation with her about the character and the series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Scarlett hadn’t been that familiar with
FALLING SKIES at that time, but between her first read and her callback she had
quickly watched a few episodes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
found her bright and curious and liked that she asked smart questions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One thing I remember, as I discussed the re-tape and what
emotions I wanted her to hit, was – she had taped the audition with an American
accent, but during my conversation she was speaking with her natural British
accent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told her – “When you
re-tape, even in the introductory part where you are saying your name, and so
on, <u>only</u> use an American accent.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Her American accent was strong and I didn’t want people to prejudice
against her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When she taped, what
she did, that I thought was smart was – not only did <u>she</u> use a USA
accent, she had the person who was reading off-camera do the same.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Very smart” I thought, and she got
another check in my personal positive column.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The fates went Scarlett's way. There was some internal debate, but I think the choice for her was pretty-much unanimous. A bonus, which I hadn't been aware of at first was that she's played </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pansy Parkinson in the last few HARRY POTTER movies. Of course, this makes her a celebrity, especially with younger people, wherever she goes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Coincidentally our director on this one, Bill Eagles, was
also a Brit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we put together
the schedule, I didn’t know any of the directors who were available for the
fourth episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Based on resumes,
I got several DVD’s of episodes from shows that were relevant or similar to
“FALLING SKIES.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bill had done
several episodes of the CineMax show, “Strike Back.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought the
directing on these shows was very exciting – and so Bill was hired.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-77519334394356964452014-07-07T11:19:00.000-07:002014-07-11T21:35:52.414-07:00SEASON 4, EPISODE 3 "EXODUS"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">SEASON 4, EPISODE 3 "EXODUS"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Written by: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0665322/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1#writer" target="_blank">Josh Pate</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Directed by: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004121/" target="_blank">Mikhail Solomon</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">FROM <a href="http://www.fallingskies.com/discover/falling-skies" target="_blank">TNT</a> :</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">In the “Exodus” episode, Tom and the 2nd Mass hatch an elaborate plan to escape the confines of the Espheni Ghetto. Meanwhile back in Chinatown, after learning from Ben that Lexi has been keeping a deadly secret, Maggie confronts Lexi publicly. At the Espheni Youth Camp, Matt tries to talk Mira out of a dangerous escape plan. While trekking through the woods with her guerilla fighters, Anne has a flashback to her time in the Espheni Tower with Karen (guest star Jessy Schram), where a terrifying secret about Lexi is revealed. Treva Etienne guest-stars.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">That's right: Karen's back! (If briefly) in one of the creepier scenes I've been involved with (And which, hopefully, I helped contribute to the creep)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And part one of our season concludes as our heroes escape the ghetto - And Anne finally finds Lexi at the end of the eipsde. Now we can begin to hope that the 2nd Mass. will soon could be (maybe) re-united.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I have a feeling, though, that a lot of obstacles still stand in the way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Both Josh Pate, who wrote this episode, and Mikhail Solomon,
who directed, have pretty impressive resumes. You should check out the links above to their imdb
pages. Josh has created series and
directed – I think this is his first time on a writing staff, which he was
willing to do, I think because of his long-standing relationship with Mr.
Eick. Similarly, Mikhail Solomon
has a long impressive resume as a director of photography, including academy
award nominations (for BACKDRAFT).
For more than a decade he has been directing pilots and feature
films. I don’t think he’s done
much (if any) episodic directing.
But, again, his long-standing relationship with Mr. Spielberg (he DP’ed
ALWAYS among other project) brought him our way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The biggest, and most obvious challenge, of this one was the
long and complex escape sequence, which certainly was the most action and
visual effects we’d ever done in a non-season-opening-or-closing episode. The good news is I knew Mr. Solomon
would in now way be intimidated by the scope of the episode. His feature film HARD RAIN with
Christian Slater was one of the technically most complex movies I’ve ever
seen. I had no idea if we could do
this one on budget or on schedule (hint: we couldn’t) but our director would be
able to embrace the scope.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The motorcycle chase, where Tom misdirects an army of
skitters to their doom took place over three or four locations, mixing stunt
driving, Noah Wyle on a motorcycle with digital and live action skitters. In several shots, what we filmed was
Noah (or his double) racing in front of several small radio-controlled cars,
which were used to kick up dust and leaves. The cars were later replaced with digital skitters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The sequence culminates with Tom re-entering the ghetto cell
he’d been housed in episode 1 and 2, setting the room on fire with a flame
thrower and then leaping to safety into the river as he explodes the entire
hotel taking down hundreds of skitters as he goes. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This was, obviously, a big project, which had to be
carefully planned and storyboarded.
We knew from Mr. Eick that the hotel was going to have to be set on fire
– so in it’s initial construction plans we had to build it on a stage with a
very high ceiling and plan to vent the flames and flammable gases that would be
used. The stage was built at an
elevation of 7 feet . This was
partially so that we could surround it with a blue screen (or a night black
screen) as needed (for out the windows.)
But also so that Noah, and his stunt double, could stand on the ledge
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Noah really wielded the mini-flamethrower that our special
effects team had constructed. And
he did the jump himself. Of course
when he leaps from the building it is an all-digital environment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">More than on most of our episodes, on this one, once the
sequence was cut together, we had to go back and spot shoot a few shots to tie
it all together…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It really was a
big and complex puzzle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
instance, one pair of shots that was really important to me, which we picked up
later – was a close up of Noah looking down, and then a VFX shot which was his
POV of hundreds of skitters crawling the walls towards him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Without those two bits the only shots
we had were wide shots of the building being engulfed by skitters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was impressive, but somehow not enough…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll never be sure of why the
phenomenon works, but when you see a close up of the hero and then their direct
point of view of what they see – it just makes the danger and the visceral
experience greater.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shot of
Noah we literally grabbed with an extra camera and no sound equipment in a
parking lot looking up into blue sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I wasn’t sure it was going to work, but I feel it did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shot of the skitters coming
at him is a very quick cut – but it’s cool and menacing.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">FALLING SKIES: SEASON4 EPISODE 2 "THE EYE"</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Written by: <a href="http://m.imdb.com/name/nm0053322/filmotype/writer?ref_=m_nmfm_2" target="_blank">Carol Barbee</a></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was very happy to have Sergio Gezzan in the second episode of the season. As I'm sure I've mentioned before the second episode of a season is the trickiest for me. I am directing while the prep is happening - and new seasons always bring new tonal and structural and dramatic changes. I am less able to oversee the 2nd episode of a season than any other episode of the year. That's why Sergio's presence brings me comfort. Not only is he relentlessly responsible, but he cares deeply about the crafting of character and the drama of storytelling. Sergio is the only director, besides myself, who has directed episodes of "Falling Skies" in all 4 seasons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">and totalitarian oppression. Carol really wanted a creepy mood, and a feeling of always being watched. The concept of the eye that twisted and turned on the front of the air ship was important. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As you can tell. Many new ideas and new rules have been brought in this season, and we were working hard to feather them in with the things that have already been established. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The tethered zeppelin, of course, was a new concept and a new design, and while we had some time to design the exterior of the zeppelin - the interior was done pretty quickly. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rob Gray, the production designer (which means he designs and builds the sets and finds the locations we shoot in and overall designs the "look" of the series) and I felt that we should stick with what we've established as far as Espheni interior design. Between with the interior spaceship in season 2, and the re-vamped power station in season 3 and Karen's lair in Season 3 and the big power station that we blew up at the end of season 2 - we had built a lot of spare parts for Espheni interiors. They were literally laying around in a warehouse and we had used and re-used them many times.(Believe it or not the Falling Skies budget is really quite spare and recycling is a key part of our game-plan.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rob did have to design a new set - which meant having artisans carve (literally) styrofoam walls covered with Espheni veining. With the lights on the set, when it was up was quite spare and incomplete looking, a mess of walls propped together with tubes and wires run everywhere. Rob covered the floor with rubber pebbles. As I say, it wasn't much to look at when well lit. But when we turned the lights off and Director of Photography, Barry Donlevy added the signature orange Espheni cross-light, it came alive. We also added ceilings and some depth with computer generated backgrounds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the cool things in the episode, which I'm kind of proud of, was the way that Tom was transported up to the zeppelin. The script just described an elevator that descended from the ship - with no further elaboration. But, in our Visual Effects meetings - we spend a lot of time talking about things like "What would an Espheni elevator look like." I was shooting, but my fearless former assistant, now associate producer, Ashley Shields-Muir came to me with reports from the VFX meeting - which had generally been successful, but which had stalled in this one area. The idea of what the elevator should look like, just came to me in a flash - it should be a snaking series of tentacles that seem separate and alive. The whole thing should descend like a mass of snakes from the ship and then let loose of the passenger as it lands. To the harnessed human who comes down, this would be no big deal... But Tom's ride up would be pretty creepy for him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sergio was very interested in the idea of the rebellion - and I have to credit him for both conceiving, designing and implementing the attack that the citizens of the ghetto. It was a big scene that didn't really fit into schedule - but Sergio found ways to twist and turn the schedule and add a small splinter unit to make sure that it happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was also clear this season that the Espheni overlords were going to play a bigger and more specific role this year. We meet the one who oversees the ghetto, and at the end of the episode we get a glimpse of a second overlord, who is mysteriously working with Lexi - to what end, good or bad, at this point we know not... But practically, to us in production that meant <u>more overlords.</u> Now, overlords have been our <u>most</u> expensive commodity. They have been full done using CGI <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_capture_acting" target="_blank">motion-capture </a>, and they have cost many thousand of dollars <u>per</u> <u>shot</u>. So as you look at past seasons the overlords have actually been used quite sparingly, and many magician's tricks have been used to limit how often we actually see them. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But David made it clear that this year would be different. We would need to see them much more. So, with Todd Master's we began to devise a plan to create a practical, on-set, overlord. Todd's practical creation of Cochise, applied on top of actor Doug Jones, had saved the day last year. Had Cochise been full CGI last season, he would have been prohibitively expensive. But Todd's suit with minimal CGI for Cochise's eyes and brow was a massive dollar savings. So, we decided we needed to try it again. Of course the overlords are 10 feel tall with strangely thin bodies, tiny feet and super long arms. This was all no big deal when they were all CGI... But practically this means we were <u>not </u>going to be able to replicate what we did with Doug - i.e. have an actor in a suit. This project was going to involve a stunt, performer, who was going to have to walk around on short stilts with a robotic, radio controlled mask propped on top of his head. It was a big project that Todd estimated would take 10 weeks. Through no fault on TNT's part (we can't get financial approval of things until we are actually <u>in</u> production and <u>have</u> a budget.) we weren't able to start fabricating this creature until just a couple of weeks before we started shooting - and Sergio's episode came up only 4 weeks after that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Long and short is that, for this episode, which was filmed 6 weeks after we sent Todd off to build the creature - we didn't make it! Rushing as fast as he could, Tom did finish the rough exoskeleton of the overlord, and we did film this on set as a template on which to overlay the CGI character. But what you saw in tonight's episode was 90% CGI.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">(<b>WARNING: SPOILERS ARE INCLUDED IN THIS POST - IF READING SPOILERS MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BEEN LOCKED UP IN A GULAG - <u>DON'T READ THIS POST</u>!!!)</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">At our annual meeting in Mr. Spielberg's Amblin offices everyone was in attendance. Mr. Spielberg and TNT President Michael Wright were very excited about season 4... </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">New showrunner, David Eick presented his overview for how he saw the season going. His first big idea was to create a structure that split our group apart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Group 1: He saw Tom and Will staying with a group that were being kept in an American city turned alien-controlled gulag. They were not being killed, but were learning of some new, and even more malicious purpose the aliens had now conceived for them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Group 2: Was to be Anne, and Anthony and Denny and a few other 2nd Mass. fighters. Mr. Eick really wanted to miix-up Anne's character. His pitch was that, driven by rage when she loses Lexi, Anne becomes a fighter and a leader, taking on a new role in the show.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Group 3: Matt is separated on his own and taken to a new alien "re-conditioning" camp - a lot like the old Nazi youth camps. The Espheni have given up on, or shifted their harnessing program and are now actively brain-washing the Earth's youths. The storyline was meant to be ominous and mysterious - presenting questions that will only be answered later.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Group 4: A group that involves Ben, Maggie and Lourdes and Lexi. They would be contained in a seeming nirvana-like setting where the aliens have granted them peace. Lexi, now 18 to 20, has become a cult-like leader of this place. (Many fans have guessed at the idea that rapidly-growing Lexi would now have become a young woman. But, hopefully, we have thrown in some good surprises for you fans in her story.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And as Mr. Eick laid out how the season would evolve - with our character's becoming separated and (maybe) coming back together, and as he laid out the other plans for big twists and turns along the way - everyone started weighing in with their own ideas of how this season would take us where we needed to go in terms of the big, big picture - the overall series picture.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Spielberg had been thinking about where he wanted this season to take us - and he had clarity on the message he wanted to tell when the whole show is said and done. He put forth a number of very exciting ideas. Most of these related to the end of the season. Mr. Wright also reminded us that the heart of our show is the family and the unity and commitment of humanity to survive. A real buzz got going around the table. Everyone was jumping in with ideas. As someone behind the scenes, these are very exciting moments in the life of a series.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mr. Eick took the notes and went off to write with his newly established writing staff. The script arrived several weeks later.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now, the first draft of this script was, by far, the biggest most complex script I've ever read for the show - and if you've been watching these last few years you'll know that's saying something... Our previous Season 2 opener, and the Season 3 opener both had HUGE sequences in them. But this script opened with a gigantic action scene to rival any that we'd ever done - and then kept going! We were going to have to build a whole new "ghetto" environment, and hotel to house Tom - and this environment was loaded with action and visual effects (new creatures - flying skitters, motorcycles, flamethrowers, etc.) We were going to have to find, build or create an environment that Lexi's followers could live inhabit. (Originally this was written as a mall, but eventually it became "Chinatown" - more on that later) And we were going to have to find an environment for the Nazi-like youth camp where Matt lived.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now my job along with producer Grace Gilroy's is always to figure out how we can accomplish whatever is written on the page. But there are, of course, limits. David Eick was very understanding, and understood that we'd "been there done that" for three seasons. So... In great co-operation we honed the script and it's big sequences and made some compromises along the way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the most part we kept the opening as written. It was extremely complex in that it, literally, covered a lot of ground - the characters traverse hundreds of yards. There are are 10 or 12 main characters and a couple of dozen extras. Then there are dozens of visual effects shots, lots of explosions and gunfire - and the key story that has to be told is of how the group is split into four. Because so much else what going to be shot in the body of this episode, it became slowly (and painfully) clear that I was going to only end up with two days to shoot this whole sequence. Except it was not a two day sequence. Every time we did the math it came out to 2 1/2 days or maybe 2 3/4 days. (In prep, we sit in meetings over and over, tediously, and go through the shots and the game-plan and the logistics and we calculate how long it will take to do each shot. Typically we factor in a best-case-scenario, which we all know is unrealistic - equipment breaks, cast and crew get lost on the way to set, confusion reigns. Best-case almost never happens) (*See storyboards at the end of the post for a small segment of the shots we planned out)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An idea that was suggested by Director of Photography, Nate Goodman, was that we could be more efficient if we told the whole story from Tom's point of view. The script indicated cutting around to all of the many characters and their individual stories - which would be very time consuming. By telling the story in a way that every shot shown was either Tom, or What-Tom-Sees, we could drastically reduce the number of shots. (To clarify, this technique couldn't practically begin until the deadly alien beamers appear and the battle begins, before that there were too many stories to tell.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I loved the way that the story opened in a halcyon, calm way - that we begin with what feels like the end - i.e. the end of the long journey back to Charleston that began at the very end of season three's last episode. The dialogue opened with the idea of climbing a steep hill, and at the top of the hill the city of Charleston is revealed.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That meant that we had to find a beautiful pastoral setting with a steep hill. Not the easiest location in Vancouver. After much searching we went right to the edge of the Canada/US border where there is farmland. I knew I was close to my home country because my Verizon plan worked again! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We walked that location with every department several times and talked through exactly how we were going to shoot it (one of the photos below shows the crew following me through the then-soggy grass as I laid out the game plan) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Another problem we had is that this big action had to be done on Day one and two of our season two shoot. This is never an ideal way to begin (with big action.) Normally one would start with smaller dialogue scenes. But because all of the other locations had to be built and because many of the character's went through haircuts and other changes after the opening - we decided to start big!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But, while the scouts were wet, the shooting days were gorgeous, sunny and blazing hot! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is always fun when the whole cast comes together again after a long 6 months away! This group of actors have really become friends over the years (and believe me, this is not common) Everyone was happy and gung-ho - and really ready to dive back into the season. But, despite the tireless enthusiasm, the work was very hard and we were walking and driving on steep slopes and on uneven ground. Of course we got way behind and many shots that had been carefully planned had to be dropped or combined along the way.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The two sequences where some compromises were made were in Lexi's world, which originally had more scenes and more characters - and Matt's world - which originally had a bigger skitter presence.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As mentioned, Lexi's commune was originally designed to be in a mall. This was a very interesting idea because, much as the "Dawn of The Dead" movies did - it would explore the materialism of the lost world as this new world evolves. But... Malls are very hard things to achieve. (Ironically the writers in Season 1 had the same idea which we also were not able to achieve in Toronto - and which became the Season 1 high school.) The problems with malls is first, that no empty malls tend to exist in the real world that will allow a film company to control them for a film shoot. And, secondly, malls are FULL of products which are both expensive to rent or buy and which TV networks won't allow you to show, because the amount to "advertising" ...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So, since a traditional mall was out, after much searching, production designer Rob Grey had (what I thought was) a genius idea. There is a small mall in Vancouver's Chinatown and next to it a small museum with a courtyard and a beautiful tea garden and temple. Now, the temple was very diffucult and impractical to shoot - and the idea was a little difficult to sell visually... But, there was something unusual and graphic that appealed to me. Malls can be visually bland - but this Chinatown mall was going to be quite interesting.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is actually one small part of the show where we shot in a real mall - this is where Ben wakes up... But to spell out the difficulties... we had to shoot that sequence between midnight and 5 AM, and we had to be 100% wrapped out by 6AM - VERY restrictive! At first we thought we'd go back to that location again as the season went on - but we never did - it was just too impractical.</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NOAH BETWEEN TAKES</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">THE BATTLE BEGINS!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ME ON SET</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">BUILDING A MECH PART 1</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-87825238166196479002013-08-04T22:53:00.000-07:002013-08-05T05:16:33.494-07:00SEASON 3 - EPISODE 10: "BRAZIL"<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Season 3, episode 10:</span><b style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: xx-large;"> "BRAZIL"</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Written by:<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041469/?ref_=tt_ov_wr" target="_blank"> Remi Aubachon</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Directed by: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0066439/?ref_=tt_ov_dr" target="_blank">Greg Beeman</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Wow... So the last episode of the season is already here and gone...</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If it's any consolation to the diehard fan - the production office for season 4 just opened this week, the crew is coming aboard, a first draft of the first script has come out - and season 4 looks <u>very</u> exciting with a lot of big changes and many twists and turns... Also, if you haven't heard, we will be doing 12 episodes and not just 10 next time - so that's 20% more FALLING SKIES for you!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As for this one... </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">This was the first
time FALLING SKIES has ever used a helicopter! </span></span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Now, I’ve filmed
in helicopters a few times and truthfully, I don’t love them. They bounce and they rise and move in
ways that are unnatural. I hate
heights anyway, so heights while I’m swooping and diving and pitching I hate
even more. I have to say though,
that the pilot of this particular helicopter was quite good. The ride was smooth and I even had some
fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">The opening sequence,
which takes place on the barge sailing into Boston harbor, was a big
project. Half of it was filmed
with the crew sailing in Vancouver harbor, the Boston skyline was digitally
overlaid onto the Vancouver skyline.
This part amounted to all of the big wide shots and helicopter
shots. The other half was filmed
with the barge docked a day later.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Because I was
going to be in the helicopter with Director of Photography Barry Donlevy and
the cast and crew and Assistant Directors were going to be a couple of hundred
feet below me – we decided it was important to rehearse the whole sequence well
before filming.</span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">So, a day before
filming, the AD’s and art department guys marked off the whole barge in chalk
on a parking lot floor. They also
marked off the position of the shipping container the 2</span><sup style="font-family: Helvetica;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"> Mass was
hiding in and the position of the guns, etc. I took all of the actors and all our of regular 2</span><sup style="font-family: Helvetica;">nd</sup><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">
Mass extras and we rehearsed the whole scene several times – including how
everyone would move into position and what positions we would take and the
order of dialogue, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">It was a little
weird to do it that way, but it paid off – because the day of filming went very
smoothly. The whole cast and
extras and the barge crew had to show up before dawn to take a couple of water
taxis out to the barge, which had been towed into the harbor and was awaiting
us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Right after sun-up
the helicopter landed. The
helicopter cameraman mounted the camera on the spacecam which is a special
gyro-stabilized camera mount specially fitted to the helicopter. I made rounds with the cast and
crew at base camp before they went off in the water taxis and then boarded the
helicopter about an hour after it first landed. I took off, and with walkie-talkie communication to the crew
below, we ran through the scene a dozen or two times.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Not two hours
later, we had all the helicopter shots we needed and I landed and boarded the
boat for more filming!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Never
underestimate the power of rehearsal!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Seychelle Gabriel
had a lot of fun on this one. Her character, Lourdes, has been pretty
reasonable and placid up to now, but here, infected with a head full of eye
worms she got to go a little crazy. The first scene we shot with Lourdes
in this state was the tent interior, where Hal comes to see her. I had
supervised her makeup in the makeup trailer, making sure she looked pale and
that there were dark circles under her eyes. There's a makeup trick I
like to use, which is to turn the actors eyelid down and draw with a red grease
pencil on the inside of the lid. This creates a subtle red rim at the bottom
of the eyes and adds to the freaky effect. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">When we were
shooting the scene, I got right in there with a spray bottle of warm water and
I used it to sweat her up and to arrange her hair so that oily strand framed
her face and that one eye was almost blocked, but just peaked through.
Then, I just encouraged Seychelle to "go for it". I told
her that there was an animal force that was pulsing and shuddering through her
body and that she should feel this energy moving through her body. I also
encouraged her to go for it vocally and yell and scream or growl or gurgle - to
"get ugly." As a director what I can do is set the stage
and let the actor feel a sense of freedom and guidance in what direction they
should head in, performance-wise. After that I sit back and watch.
Seychelle really did go for broke, growling and snarling and shuddering.
I loved what she was doing and was glad she was having fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I can't talk about this episode without talking about Doug Jones and the amazing work he did on this one. If you were at ComiCon or read a transcript of our panel there, you heard Doug joke that there was only one suit. This was true. So as the character of Cochise's father came about we all knew that meant Doug would have to play both roles. (Truthfully, there was also one other stunt suit that had been built, it was unarticulated, and the Volm characters seen in the background are all played by one stunt man.)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">As you can imagine, this was a daunting task for Doug. The scene in the Volm spaceship where Tom and Weaver are presented to the Volm commander was quite long, and that meant Doug had to memorize <u>two</u> parts and <u>a</u> <u>lot</u> of dialogue. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Tod Masters used Doug's lifecast to carve a new Volm face. He designed Washaskabab (Cochise's Dad) with wrinkles and veins and created a new character. And then Doug brought it to life. I don't know how or when Doug does his preperation, but in stance and manner and vocal quality he created a completely new and different character from Cochise. (Later, in post production, a different actor re-voiced Doug as the father, but Doug laid all the foundation for the character.)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Since I only had one actor playing both roles, the shooting of this scene was quite challenging. I had to shoot every shot that involved Cochise first, then wait while Cochise became Cochise's father and then go back around the horn filming the scene again with every shot that involved the father. Any shot where we see them both at once had to be a split screen, meaning I had to lock the camera off and shoot it twice with Doug acting to air. This took a certain amount of planning and math. Charts and graphs were drawn by myself, my cinematographer and my assistant director to figure out the best, most logical order to film the scene.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">If you've been
following this blog, you've also been following how, because of Moon
Bloodgood's maternity leave, we had to finish filming any and all scenes with
Moon in October. The finale was filmed in December. The scene with
Anne in the coffee shop was a little better worked out, because the story for 8, "Strange Brew", was pretty well developed back in October. But this episode was still undeveloped except for in the broadest sense. Remi was struggling with
how we should present Anne in it. We had funny conversations
where he would say stuff to me like, "Well, I'm pretty sure she'll be
coming off of a spaceship. She might be lead out by Karen, or maybe by an
Overlord. I'm toying with the idea that Tom has to trade Hal for Anne,
but I'm not sure." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">We both agreed we
needed to keep it simple and compartmentalized so that he could have as much
freedom as possible to revise in the future. Then one day he said,
"It may be that they’re on a ship." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">"A space
ship?" I asked. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">"No, a ship.
Like a tall ship, headed to Europe." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Since I had no
idea where he was headed with that I just said, "That sounds potentially
complex. Who is Anne with?" </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">"Maybe
everybody. The whole 2nd Mass." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">"And they're
all headed on a tall ship to Europe?" I asked."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">"Maybe." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">In some ways my
job is easy. A script comes
out and my job is to realize it on film with actors and sets and lights and
camera. The job is certainly hard
enough and there are many, many ways to realize a script – but no matter what I
am making just <u>that</u> <u>one</u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"> script.
But the writer starts with the blank page. Anything is possible, and in the “anything” is a lot of
potential for overwhelm. The
writing process needs to be creative and evolving. And the prospect of
shooting one scene that’s going to play near the end of the finale episode when
you really don't have the story and you don’t even know where you are headed is
pretty daunting. So I had a lot of
sympathy for Remi.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">A few days later he came back with,
"No, we're going to have Anne coming off the ship." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">I started asking
questions like, "Cool. So, is
it Karen or The Overlord?" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">"No,"
Remi replied, It’s a Volm ship." </span></div>
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</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">"A Volm ship?
How did she get on that?"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">"I'm not
sure, but I have a really cool idea it's just not completely worked
out."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">I trusted Remi that the idea would be cool and waited, but in the end Remi decided that the safest
decision, the one that would allow the him most flexibility later, would be for
Anne and Lexi to have already been offloaded and, as the ship takes off,
(whoever was on it and whatever kind of ship it was) Tom would be looking up
and then he'd turn and there would be Anne. "Okay, great."
I said. "Now, it shoots Saturday, so last question is this -
Is Anne in the woods, in an urban rubble environment, or by a waterfront. We could do any of those?”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Remi wasn’t sure. It was a random choice and one we both realized didn't at first blush matter that much, but which would drive the locations of a yet-to-be-written script. A choice had to be made. Finally he decided… “Fine, the woods!”</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">A couple of months later when he was writing
the script, he said. “Aagh, I wish I’d picked urban environment, that would
have been way better.” And so it goes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">The night we shot that scene was one of the
hardest, most painful nights I’ve ever been through. There was this huge obligation to get Moon shot out –
so we scheduled the coffee shop scene from episode 8 and the scene where Anne
and Lexi have come off the spaceship as well as a few other scenes and bits and
pieces that hadn’t been completed on a Saturday to be shot by a second-unit
crew.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">We scheduled for Noah and Moon to only work
half days on the Friday, we also scheduled Noah to be able to come in late on
Monday, to protect his turn-around coming off of Saturday night (“turn-around” is the amount of hours
an actor or crew member has to have off before returning to work as mandated by
the actor’s guild SAG the crew’s unions and federal law. In the case of the
actors it’s 12 hours.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">But I forgot to think about myself. The shooting of episode 4, which I was
directing, was taking longer hours than was planned. And the main unit didn’t wrap until 4 AM on the Friday
night. Moon wasn’t working, Noah
wasn’t working and a whole new crew was reporting for work on Saturday at 11 AM. But <u>I</u> was the only person
working <u>both</u> shifts. I
suddenly realized that, after a week of 14 to 16 hour days I had only 7 hours
between finishing a 15-hour day on Friday and starting another 12 or 14-hour
day on Saturday. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">I decided to just sleep in my trailer, so that
I wouldn’t lose the half hour both ways it would take to get to my
apartment. I woke up and felt fine
on Saturday and we shot until about 9 PM with the café scene and the other bits
and pieces. Then I made a fateful
mistake. I knew the move to the
woods location and the initial lighting was going to take a couple of
hours… So I decided to take a nap. I lay down and passed out. It seemed like only minutes later a
surreal knocking was echoing through my room “We’re ready for you, Mr. Beeman”
It was the chipper, yet faraway voice of some unknown P.A. It felt like thousand miles off and I dully realized that my hands and
feet and voice would not work. I
felt like I was in “The Matrix.”
It was horrible, and it took me a long time to roll off the couch and
onto the floor. Every minute or so
the knock recurred and the chipper voice reiterated, “We’re ready for you, Mr.
Beeman.” It was a hellish kind of
hell. I eventually staggered out
of the trailer and was driven to set.
But the whole time I directed that scene in the woods my vision was
swimming, and the ground felt like it was undulating and I was worried I was
going to throw up. Noah and Moon
and my director of photography, Barry Donlevy helped me through the
ordeal. But it was a special kind
of awful night. Never again!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Since we didn’t really know what was going to
happen in the story before the scene we kind of had to make some parts of it up. Noah decided that he was, most likely,
going to have gone through some kind of ordeal before finding Anne. So he instructed the makeup department
to char him with soot and to add a big gash and streak of blood across his
brow. That made sense to me (in my
extreme-sleep-deprived state), so we did it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Months later, as we began to stage the battle
with Karen, my perpetually on-top-of-it assistant Ashley reminded me for the
100<sup>th</sup> time.
“Remember… We’re going to
have to figure out how Tom gets that wound on his head.” For some reason, I’d been avoiding the
issue for a while. I was just
counting on the fact that at the last second something would come to me. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">On the night of shooting I finally just blurted
out the obvious answer. “Okay, a
skitter’s gonna have to smack Tom across the face.” So as we staged the scene, I created the moment where, after
Tom shoots Karen a skitter lunges forward and smacks Tom. The Tom stunt double was there – and so
we ad-libbed a stunt. We put the
stunt double in a harness, wrapped a line around him and ran it to a pulley
that we, literally, attached to a nearby stump. Then two of our biggest guys (including Brad Kelly) grabbed
the line and pulled hard. The
stunt man flew back about 8 feet, spinning in the air as he went. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">The budgeting and prep of this episode had been
quite intense and fast paced (finale’s always are) and while most everything
got buttoned up before we began shooting, truth be told, we went to camera with
a lot of unanswered details regarding the final battle with Karen. Partly this was because, in prep, we
were super over-budget, and we kept pulling big sequences and putting others in
their place, and moving things around right up until the last second. Because of Jessy Schram’s shooting
schedule on ABC’s LAST RESORT, the Karen scene was going to be shot last. Human nature kicked in and we let some
of the decisions drift regarding the scene. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">The other factor was that, creatively, there
were a lot of discussions and debates about what would happen regarding that
scene. Discussions such as, <u>should</u> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">Karen die? And once we got past
that to “yes” – it was – who should shoot her? Tom had to, that was clear. Karen had certainly f-ed up Tom’s life. But what about Hal? And Weaver? And Maggie?
They all had a lot of reasons to do it as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">The draft of the script that we went to camera
with actually had <u>everyone</u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"> blast her to death in a hail of gunfire.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">As we got closer to shooting though, myself and
the entire group of actors kept discussing this issue. I was on the phone with Remi and we kept working it over as well. It <u>really </u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"> felt like Tom <u>had</u> </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">to be the one to shoot her. To do
otherwise would diminish it. But
we also wanted to finalize the Maggie-Hal-Karen triangle. Sarah Carter pulled me aside and let me
know, that Maggie <u>really</u></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;"> wanted to shoot Karen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: large;">So, we brainstormed how to lay the scene
out. We came up with the whole
scenario where, after Tom shoots Karen, and after he runs off hearing Anne’s
voice, Karen would revive and with her last breath she would call to Hal and
Hal would hesitate and Maggie would blast him to death. I liked it. Noah liked it.
Sarah Carter and Drew Roy liked it. I’m not sure Jessy liked it (she was dying after all.) Midnight calls to LA were made to get
approval. Remi liked it and
finally TNT liked it. And then we
shot it. Like right then and
there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Now, let’s be clear, this shoot-from-the-hip,
Cowboy style of production is not the norm for us. But we were in kind of an extreme duress situation at that
time of the season – and so it seemed appropriate.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Thanks for watching all year. Thanks for reading this blog!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">See you next season!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Goodbye and Anon,</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Listen to the director - He commands respect!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Yee-Haw! It's the finale of Season 3!!!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Drew 'n Sarah - firelight is so romantic</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The set at night</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The team huddles in a tent on a cold Canadian night eating Cup 'O Noodles to stay warm</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Brad Kelly and Collin Cunningham on set</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Riding the taxi boat to set (I like this pic cuz it looks like a cheesy vacation photo... but with aliens)</span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Prepare to fire (at the blue screen)</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Designer Rob Gray on board</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Nobility thy name is "Mason"</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Cinematographer Nate Goodman (I'm riding in that helicopter in the b.g.)</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> The Mason boys on board!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Then throw me in</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> It's cold as shiznazz in Canada</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Even for Volm</span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-27575717479055233762013-07-30T04:36:00.003-07:002013-07-30T05:35:56.283-07:00<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SEASON 3 - EPISODE 10: <b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2910616/" itemprop="name" title="Journey to Xilbalba">Journey to Xilbalba</a></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Written by: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859918/">Bradley Thompson</a> & <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859918/">Bradley Thompson</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Directed by: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000408/" target="_blank">Jonathan Frakes</a></span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">OK HANDS DOWN THESE WERE MY FAVORITE COSTUMES AT COMICON - THERE WAS AN AWESOME ZOMBIE WOLVERINE, DEADPOOL AND SPIDERMAN TOO - BUT CHECK OUT THIS OLD SCHOOL X-MEN -- AWESOME!!!!!</span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">So sorry - Life is moving 1000 miles an hour for me this week - I just couldn't get a proper blog up... But here' som pictures!!!!</span></span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">DREW ROY WAS INTERVIEWED BACKSTAGE AT COMICON</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SO WAS DOUG JONES</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">THIS IS US WAITING TO GO ONSTAGE AND GREET YA'LL</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">THIS IS WHAT I SAW FROM THE STAGE...</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r61_dUVGUM8/UfA5ngXFymI/AAAAAAAADqA/AmMG--WZ8kY/s1600/IMG_2463.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r61_dUVGUM8/UfA5ngXFymI/AAAAAAAADqA/AmMG--WZ8kY/s320/IMG_2463.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">AND THIS...</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">... AND THIS</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fURGWfK79D0/UfA561rTaRI/AAAAAAAADqI/AiDs9K3vNv0/s1600/IMG_2465.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-fURGWfK79D0/UfA561rTaRI/AAAAAAAADqI/AiDs9K3vNv0/s320/IMG_2465.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">US ON STAGE AT COMICON</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SARAH CARTER AND I AT COMICON (SHE HAD LANDED YESTERDAY FROM A MOVIE SHE WAS SHOOTING IN JAKARTA AND WAS SHE WAS SEEING STARS! - BUT OF COURSE, SHE CAME TO GREET THE FANS)</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HRfJiJ6v0hE/UfA6a_X8yoI/AAAAAAAADqQ/z4rsRg0eMGM/s1600/end+027.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="240" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HRfJiJ6v0hE/UfA6a_X8yoI/AAAAAAAADqQ/z4rsRg0eMGM/s320/end+027.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">JONATHAN FRAKES AND NOAH WYLE ARE OLD PALS</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I TOOK THIS PICTURE OFF OF ONE OF THE PLAYBACK MONITORS, CUZ I THOUGHT IT WAS COOL</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SEYCHELLE HUNKERS DOWN BETWEEN TAKES IN THE MISTY MIST AND THE DUSTY DUST</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DIRECTOR FRAKES COMMANDS ON SET</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">DALE DYE ON SET</span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-8159183026951527182013-07-22T19:28:00.003-07:002013-07-24T13:28:20.081-07:00SEASON 3 - EPISODE 8 - "STRANGE BREW"<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SEASON 3 - EPISODE 8: </span><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace;">"STRANGE BREW"</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Written by: John Wirth</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New", Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Directed by: David Solomon</span></span><br />
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<u><b><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red;">WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SPOILERS. SPOILERS MAY MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOUR BRAIN IS BEING SUCKED OUT THROUGH YOUR NOSE BY ALIEN HARDWARE. IF YOU EXPERIENCE THIS SENSATION, STOP READING AND GO TO ANOTHER WEBSIGHT.</span></span></span></b></u><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First an apology for getting the blog up late. I was at ComicCon in San Diego on
Friday and Saturday doing press and a panel with the cast. Sunday had it's own craziness - and now here it is - Monday and I'm just posting.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ComicCon was a big success. The room we spoke in was filled with
over three thousand people. They
laughed and cheered and when we showed the clip in which Tom shoots Karen in
the head, they gasped and then cheered long and hard. I was most impressed when moderator Will Wheaton took
questions from the fans. The
questions were really smart and thoughtful. I thought, “Dang, our FALLING SKIES fans really pay attention!”
Anyway, if you were in the crowd that day (or even if you were not)
thank you for your dedication to the show. Believe me, everyone on this cast and crew is very aware of
you and all that we do, ultimately, is for you!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I haven’t downloaded my ComicCon pictures yet – but I’ll
post the blog without them, and then add some later – so come back and review
the blog if you don’t see some ComicCon pix at first.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Okay, so I hope you all will agree (or at least most of you,
cause “all” is too much too hope for) that this was an excellent episode.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In my many years in the business, I’ve come to learn that
you only get a couple a year where the script is great from the get-go, the
process goes smoothly, the editing is additive and it all turns out
fantastically.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And that’s how I feel about “Strange Brew.”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">John Wirth, who sadly for us, during the shooting of this
one, announced that he was going to be leaving in Season 4 to run “HELL ON
WHEELS”, wrote the episode. Well,
he left with a bang.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This storyline was pitched out to me way back in August
before we had started shooting, by Remi Aubachon.
And he and I both quickly reached the same conclusion. Because Noah Wyle was going to have to
shave his beard, we would have to shoot this episode <u>last</u>, in December,
<u>after</u> we’d completed the season finale.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That was complicated enough, but it became doubly complex
when we learned that Moon Bloodgood was pregnant and would have to leave the
show in October to have her baby.
The implication of this was that we were going to have to shoot <u>half</u>
of any scene involving Moon two months before we filmed anything else, and two
months before we had a completed script for the episode. (I say “half” because, remember Noah
still had his beard in October. )</span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And, as crazy as it was we did exactly that. If you remember, a couple of blogs ago
I mentioned that I chose to direct episode 4 because that was Moon’s last
episode of the year – but I also knew that we’d be directing scenes of her for
this episode. John had to write
the scene in the coffee shop with Tom and Anne, before even starting the rest
of the script. He tells me that he
had a pretty good outline and idea of what he wanted, but he was also busy writing
his half of episode 6 at the same time.
Anyway – it was crazy. We
went out and scouted the coffee shop location, it was great but it was in
downtown Vancouver and as we worked the schedule out for episode 4, there was
no way we were going to move the company to downtown for half of one
scene. So after getting assurances
from my location manager that we definitely, absolutely positively would be
able to use that coffee shop in December, two months from now – our production
designer Rob Gray built half of the set on stage.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was literally that – half a set – three walls. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My invaluable assistant Ashley spotted an extra she thought
would be a good “shaved Tom” double and we brought him in.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Filming that half of the scene was bizarre. We didn’t have the script, just the
scene. Noah and Moon worked
the dialogue together, and Noah tried to work through all the details of his
performance, like when he’d point, when he’d slap his palm on the table, when
he’d stand, how many steps he’d back away from the table, etc. After he worked it out he tried to
teach the photo double how to do the physicality. The man was lovely, and he did have Noah’s physique and
jawline – but he had never done a job like this before. I’m sure it was an odd experience for
him to have Noah telling him, “When I say these words, jab your hand at her –
like this…” And, “On his line grab your scarf with your right hand, and stand
up…” Etc. During the scene
Moon had to look and act to the double, while Noah stood close by reading the
lines. Two months later, when it
was Noah’s turn to do the scene, he had no such luxury. Moon was off having a baby, so he had
to act completely to Moon’s stand in, who learned the dialogue for the scene.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also, creatively I wasn’t sure what techniques to employ to
convey the weirdness of it all. I
knew I wanted to heighten the surrealism of the scene – but I hadn’t had time
to really prep it, and I wasn’t even going to be directing the episode – that
was going to be done by David Solomon who, in October, was busy directing an episode of ONCE
UPON A TIME. I went to an old
favorite of mine, the swing-and-tilt lens. It’s a lens that swings the plane of focus to the diagonal,
and was invented for architectural photography as a way to keep the whole
building in focus when you were photographing it from the ground. When you use it on a traditional
subject it has the odd and unsettling appearance of making something – say the
human face- only partially in focus.
Say, for instance, one eye and half of the lips are in focus and the
rest of the face is out. When you
move the lens during a shot the plane of focus shifts and it’s very weird – but
at the same time somewhat subtle.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I used this technique on Moon’s face during the scene for
the parts where she starts to get angrier and more confrontational to Tom.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In editing, my brilliant film editor Don Aron added very
subtle jump cuts and effected dissolves to further make the scene become
bizarre.</span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Another idea that I think worked out great was beginning the
episode in blackness with a sound montage from all of the previous
seasons. Remi got this idea from
watching “Zero-Dark-Thirty” which opens in a similar way. The script originally called for the
episode to open on a Boston sports radio talk show, and we had that in the cut at
first. But once the sound montage
was in, it became clear to me that something more jarring was needed. I suggested to Don that we find the
most annoying alarm clock buzzer we could, and that we bleed it through as if
it were a sound effect from the battle at first and then it reveals itself to
be an alarm clock. All of these
techniques were complimented by the excellent opening shot David Solomon made,
which began on a close up of Tom’s eyes, too tight to see he was beardless, which
then panned to the alarm clock radio as Tom reaches over to turn it off (at
which point we’re realizing something is off here) and then pans back with
Tom’s hand but now wider to see he is shaven and then continues as Rebecca
rolls into frame. An excellent
first moment!</span></span></div>
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</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think the fun part of this episode was seeing, or
imagining we see life before the invasion. Steven Spielberg has always been adamant that he doesn’t
want to see “before” or the day of the invasion. But this was a way to have our cake and eat it too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It was also a fun way to have all of our cast re-imagined in
different roles within Tom’s mind.
Of course you noticed the return of Peter Shinkoda, who died as “Dai”
last season. Peter was
greeted by much hugging and adulation by the cast that loves him so much when he showed up (literally on our last day of filming for the year.) But did you catch Doug Jones (who plays
“Cochise”) as a teacher in the lounge with Tom? I think, though, that the actor who loved their new role the
most was Will Patton. When we told
him, “And you’ll be playing a crazy homeless man.” I could see his eyes light up. Will dug into his part with relish, and
had a lot of fun.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The other thing I think is worth noting is actor Jennifer
Ferrin who plays Rebecca Mason.
This was a big role to step into – because the Mason wife and mother has
been much discussed and eulogized
and fought over by Tom and the boys over the three seasons. John Wirth had worked with Jennifer and
strongly recommended her. To tell
you the truth, none of the rest of us were that familiar with her, and we went
after some bigger names at first – but no one was available. Noah didn’t know her work, and was,
perhaps a bit nervous. But halfway
through the first take of their first scene (which ironically was the last
scene where Tom, still bearded, imagines his wife is there in his old bedroom, pushing him to not
look back) their chemistry
came alive immediately. There was a tenderness and familiarity and history. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">That’s what I love about the craft of
acting. When two actors really
know what they’re doing, and even though they might have just met thirty
minutes before in the makeup trailer – they can create a life together – a whole
world in fact – with they’re bodies and their voice.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I love my job!</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">NOAH AND WILL, HAPPY TOGETHER!</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ON THE CREEPY ESPHENI SET , CONNOR JESSUP WITH DIRECTOR DAVID SOLOMON IN THE B.G.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">ME 'N THE SHRAMINATOR (IT SNOWED FOR TWO DAYS ALL WINTER IN VANCOUVER - BOTH WERE THE PERFECT DAYS FOR US TO CREATE XMAS IN BOSTON... WE GET LUCKY LIKE THAT ON "FALLING SKIES")</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">LACI MALLEY AS TOM'S ASSISTANT</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">THEY CALL HIM "MR. SHINKODA"</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">THIS WAS OUR VERY LAST DAY OF SHOOTING FOR THE YEAR</span></span></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">WILL AND OUR CAMERA OPERATOR MIKE WRINCH - DO YOU NOTICE ANYTHING UNUSUAL ABOUT THIS PHOTO?</span></span></td></tr>
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Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-83150452728465858512013-07-14T22:49:00.000-07:002013-07-14T22:49:09.780-07:00SEASON 3, EPISODE 7: "THE PICKETT LINE"<br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: black;"> <span style="font-size: x-large;">SEASON 3, EPISODE 7: <span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"<b>THE PICKETT LINE"</b></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590790/" target="_blank"><span style="color: black;">DIRECTED BY:</span> </a></span></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590790/" target="_blank">Sergio Mimica-Gezzan</a> </span></span></b><br />
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<tr><td valign="top"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm3080904/">Heather V. Regnier</a></span></span></b></td><td><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
<tr><td valign="top"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1819118/">Jordan Rosenberg</a></span></span></b></td><td><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span></b></td><td valign="top"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>“The Pickett Line” is another episode where it rained, and
rained and rained!<span> </span>Oh my God, did
it rain.<span> </span>During the opening scene,
where Tom and Ben walk along below a cliff face and encounter the dying rebel
skitter, it was POURING rain, the wind was HOWLING and the temperature was just
above freezing.<span>
</span>Assistant Directors rushed into flapping tents that night, huddled over
barely working cell phones to hurridly discuss with the Producers whether we
should pull the plug on the night.<span>
</span>But the decision was made to press on.<span> </span>Noah Wyle and Connor Jessup, for their part, wanted to keep going.<span> </span>At this point in the season, Noah had
been through three particularly physically grueling episodes in a row ("Be Silent And Come Out," "Search And Recover" and now this one) </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>He’d been either
standing in the pelting rain, sloshing around in freezing cold rivers, been
beaten up or thrown around in various ways for about a month.<span> </span>There was something of a thousand
yard stare in his eyes.<span> </span>He was
beyond complaining or even resisting – he just wanted to move forward, one foot
in front of the other.<span> </span>Luckily, Noah
works well under duress, and on this night and on the rest of this episode, the
elements fueled a certain passion in his performance.</span></span></span>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>The good news was that Noah really liked this script.<span> </span>He was excited about, and had been
advocating for, an adventure like this – in which it was all about Tom and his
sons, on the move – a family - together.<span> </span>He also knew the work of </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></span></span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0382216/?ref_=tt_cl_t8" target="_blank">Christopher Heyerdahl</a><u><span></span></u><span> who plays Duane Pickett, the patriarch of his clan.<span> </span>You may recognize him as "The Swede" in <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1699748/" target="_blank">HELL ON WHEELS</a> ... (A series writer <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936210/" target="_blank">John Wirth</a> is taking over as head writer this year btw.) We had had an excellent cast
read-through on this episode and Noah was excited to work with Chris as a scene
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Remi Aubuchon, our head writer, saw this episode as an
opportunity to explore “what if?”<span>
</span>What if, Tom and his sons had made a different choice than to engage the
fight against the aliens and to join up with the resistance and eventually the
2<sup>nd</sup> Mass.?<span> </span>What if,
instead, they had gathered their supplies and disappeared into the woods –
determined to survive as a family.<span>
</span>To Remi this was a question that he imagined Tom had been asking himself
for quite some time – what if, selfish or not, they had just gone into survival
mode – would things have been better? </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Remi had attempted to explore this storyline at least once
or twice before.<span> </span>In early drafts
of the Season 2 premiere episode, there was a lengthy subplot where Tom, having
escaped the alien ship, found himself living with a woman and her two children
who had been surviving in the woods – at first seemingly quite happily.<span> </span>In that story Tom began to regret his
decision to fight, and to imagine that he could find Ben and Hal and Matt and
bring them to the halcyon woods.<span>
</span>(Of course all was not as it appeared and the perfect bliss of the woods
eventually turned ugly – but that is another story - one of many stories that were
explored, but remain untold.)<span> </span>For
various reasons that subplot was abandoned before we began production – but the
theme stayed in Remi’s mind and he kept looking for a way to explore it.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>The opportunity came now.<span> </span>When Tom and his boys (Pariah’s in Charleston to some
degree) left on horseback to find Anne and Lexi, the writers created an
alternate-universe family who were living and surviving away from the fight.<span> </span>In this story Tom sees, quite
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Meanwhile – back in Charleston – </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0004834/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1#Actor" target="_blank">Stephen Collins</a> </span></span></span> returns as
President Hathaway.<span> </span>The opening
image we see of him is Cochise is carrying him in.<span> </span>This posed a problem, because </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427964/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Doug Jones</a> </span></span></span> – who plays Cochise
– is already weighed down by about 50 pounds of latex and rubber – and he could
barely see out of his mask.<span>
</span>Carrying an adult male, even the slender (but tall!) Stephen Collins, was going
to be impossible.<span> </span>I had
encountered this problem before on </span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallville" target="_blank">SMALLVILLE</a> </span></span></span>.<span> </span>On that show Tom Welling, playing Clark, was always having to carry
unconscious people around and it had to look effortless.<span> </span>He was Okay for a few minutes with the
petite Kristen Kruek – but anyone larger and we had to use an elaborate crane
that held up the unconscious person, who wore a harness, and the crane had to
move around wherever Tom walked – and afterwards we digitally removed all of
the wires.<span> </span>That concept was
discussed in prep here – but FALLING SKIES moves faster and shoots much more
page count per day than SMALLVILLE did.<span>
</span>Our Skitter-creator and prosthetics effects maven, Todd Masters,
suggested an alternate idea.<span> </span>He
had a lifelike human dummy made of a kind of foam rubber that only weighed
forty pounds or so.<span> </span>He suggested
that he and his and his team would roughly carve a Stephen Collins face onto it and that Doug Jones would be able to carry that much more
easily.<span> </span>And that’s what we
did.<span> </span>The dummy is excellent and to
this day when I watch the scene I can’t tell the one from the other.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>There are two scenes in this episode that weren’t filmed
until weeks after the completion of principle photography.<span> </span>The first is the scene where Cochise
takes President Hathaway, Marina and Weaver down to see the big Volm gun.<span> </span>When I first read the scene that
concludes our first episode of this year – the one where Tom takes Weaver down
to see the big gun – my strong instinct was that this was a location that was
going to recur more than once in the season, but which would recur in a limited
way.<span> </span> I confirmed with
Remi that this was likely to be the case – and then I proposed that we delay
shooting the scene until we had a block of scenes from various episodes.<span> </span>That sounded good on paper – but there
were two problems, which I didn’t foresee.<span> </span>First – we budgeted the visual effects properly for the
scene, but we didn’t really put enough money aside for the set.<span> </span>It wasn’t irresponsibility, it was just
that we (a) didn’t know exactly what the set was going to be and (b) the
natural instinct to push off to tomorrow what doesn’t have to be done today
kicked in (like – why fix a leaky roof on such a sunny day?)<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>The concept of “what was the location where the Volm built the
gun” wasn’t really resolved right away.<span>
</span>Rob Gray and I talked about it a lot, but slowly and over time.<span> </span>We eventually landed on the idea that,
before the invasion, across the river from our main Charleston set – was a big
skyscraper that was about to be built when the invasion hit.<span> </span>When the Volm arrived they commandeered
the underground space (the six or seven stories below-ground a skyscraper will
always have.) And that the Volm gun had been built there in a space still
surrounded by rebar and steel girder infrastructure.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>When it came time to actually build the set (months after
episode 1 and weeks after this episode, 7) Rob Gray and his team really had to
scramble. They built they built the tunnel, seen in the first episode, and the
platform our actors stood on (which was surrounded by only a few feet on every
side by art-directed dirt.)<span> </span>This
was surrounded on all sides by blue screen. As always the work, though quickly done, was excellent!</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>The second problem I hadn’t foreseen was the idea that President
Hathaway or any other non-series-regular being part of the scene.<span> </span>So, because we couldn’t finish the
scene in the body of episode 7 we had to wait until Mr. Collins was
available to return to Vancouver.<span> </span>These two scenes were
almost the very last things we shot at the end of our shooting year.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>But when it’s all said and done, I’m very happy with the way
the scenes look.<span> </span>I love the big
camera moves that swoop in and out past the big gun.<span> </span>And I love the way our VFX team at Zoic made the gun look.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>The other scene that wasn’t shot until much later was the
one scene between Maggie and Pope.<span>
</span>This scene came about because, when the episode was first edited
together, it came in several minutes short.<span> </span>This necessitated us scrambling to add something.<span> </span>In the original story, and in the first
draft – there was a running storyline that followed Maggie, who, distressed
about Hal and the Mason’s leaving…<span>
</span>Decided to follow them.<span> </span>We
saw her tracking them once or twice, and then she appeared and joined the fray
as the action was heating up near the end.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>In the end, the powers-that-be decided to drop this story.<span> </span>For one thing, the storyline was adding
shooting time we just couldn’t afford and for another – it felt better to keep
the integrity of an all-Mason-boys episode.<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span><span></span>But when Maggie's story was cut out it left her (and Sarah Carter)
as a woman without an episode.<span> </span>All
the other parts of the story, Pope’s antics with Weaver and the President
Hathaway/Lourdes story were finished.<span>
</span>We discussed trying to retrofit Maggie into those stories, but it didn’t
make sense.<span> </span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>When the idea began to circulate, that we
may have to shoot another scene for time, Sarah Carter came
to me and suggested the essence of the scene that’s in the episode now.<span> </span>She suggested that a scene between she and
Pope would be valuable, because there was so much between those characters that was as-yet unexplored.<span> I passed the idea on to Remi </span>– and Remi loved it. <span>He wrote the scene quickly and we shot it a few days later. </span>The
scene as it stands is a bit of a one-off, in that it’s not especially connected to the
rest of the episode…<span> </span>But I really
like the energy both Sarah and Collin bring to the table.<span> </span>I really like the scene and am glad it’s
there.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>Alright! No more words... Pictures!!!</span></span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>I TOOK THIS PHOTO FROM A MONITOR ON SET - THOUGHT IT LOOKED COOL!</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>THIS WAS ANOTHER ONE OF OUR RAINY DAYS</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>ON SET - ON HORSEBACK</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>THEY CALL ME MR. POPE</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>DREW AND MAXIM RELAX BETWEEN TAKES (THEY WERE UNDER A TARP AND SO AWAY FROM THE PELTING RAIN)</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>SARAH CARTER WAITS TO BE CALLED TO SET</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>WILL PATTON ADDRESSES THE CROWD</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>WAITING IN THE WINGS BEFORE "ACTION"</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>STEPHEN COLLINS AND DOUG JONES AS COCHISE (AN INTERESTING ASIDE: STEPHEN HAD MANY SCENES WITH DOUG IN THE TWO EPISODES THEY DID TOGETHER, BUT BECAUSE DOUG SPENDS THREE HOURS GETTING INTO HIS MAKEUP BEFORE THE REST OF THE CAST ARRIVES - STEPHEN NEVER SAW WHAT DOUG LOOKED LIKE UNTIL THEY MET AT AN EVENT MONTHS LATER.)</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>SERGIO DIRECTS STEPHEN</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>ANOTHER DAY AT WORK</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>MY OLD PAL FROM "SMALLVILLE" - DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0232575/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">BARRY DONLEVY </a></span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>DEATH BE NOT PROUD</span></span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span>YOU TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON HERE - WINNER GETS A DOUGHNUT</span></span></span></td></tr>
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Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-89677556471207115502013-07-07T23:14:00.001-07:002013-07-08T05:28:15.397-07:00SEASON 3 - EPISODE 6 - "BE SILENT AND COME OUT"<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SEASON 3 - EPISODE 6: <b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"BE SILENT AND COME OUT"</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Directed by <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0437246/" target="_blank">Adam Kane</a></span></span><br />
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<u><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>WARNING: THERE ARE SPOILERS CONTAINED IN THIS BLOG. IF READING SPOILERS MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE AN ALIEN ORGANISM IS SPREADING THROUGH YOUR BLOODSTREAM, CAUSING UNBEARABLE PAIN - STOP NOW AND READ NO FURTHER</b></span></span></span></u><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>!!!</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This episode was hard.
Every episode of FALLING SKIES is hard, but this one was right up
there. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remi Aubuchon and the
writers had always designed this episode to be under-budget. The idea was that the whole story would
be very contained, to our standing sets and have a minimum of visual
effects. The original goal was
also to shoot the episode in 7 days instead of the normal 8. But as they say about “the best laid
plans of mice and men”… none of
that exactly happened. We
did end up saving some money on this one – but not as much as we hoped. The VFX (Visual effects) budget was low
– even with the “removing-the-eye-worm-from-Hal” sequence, and the production
company was able to stay all in one place for the whole shoot, which always
actually saves a lot of money.
But, despite Herculean efforts to do so, there was no way we could’ve
shot this in 7 days. There were
just too many moving parts – too much cast – too much action and too much
necessary coverage (i.e. shots needed for editing.) </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">All that aside, however, I am personally very happy with "Be Silent and Come Out." It greatly follows the rules of</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classical_unities" target="_blank"><b>Aristotelian unity</b></a> </span></span> </b>which, to me, means
that the story is told within a
confined and definite amount of time and it all happens in a confined and definite
set of space. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From Wikipedia:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In their <a href="http://www.blogger.com/null" title="Neoclassicism">neoclassical</a> form, Aristotle's rules for drama are as follows:
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<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The <i>unity of action</i>:</b> a play should have one main action that it follows, with no or few subplots.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The <i>unity of place</i>:</b> a play should cover a single physical
space and should not attempt to compress geography, nor should the stage
represent more than one place.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The <i>unity of time</i>:</b> the action in a play should take place over no more than 24 hours.</span></li>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think this story, for the most part, does all of this. (Even though it actually divides into almost two perfect halves - 1. in which Tom is captured by Hal and the group at Charleston organizes to save Tom and take down Hal - and 2. In which Hal is de-bugged.) It’s a taut,
exciting episode and I think that all of the players did a great job. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">First of all, I think that director Adam Kane did fantastic work in
keeping the story moving and the camera moving and that he kept track and
modulated both the emotion of the piece and the internal pacing of the
piece. Trust me, on paper there
was a danger of many of the scenes in the standoff section of the episode
becoming repetitive and flat. But
Adam kept all of the balls in the air in a very excellent way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Our whole cast always does a great job – and I’ve certainly
praised Noah Wyle and Will Patton and some of the other vets enough in this
blog… But today I really need to
recognize how hard and how well Drew Roy did. First off all, what Drew was playing, veering back and forth
between two totally different personality aspects that are struggling to
dominate his body – is hard. And
this also needs modulation, planning and organization on a purely technical level as an
actor. Also, Drew went for it... He did not hold back in his performance at any time. I value this very highly. When he's screaming and writhing in pain - he goes all the way. When he's begging for Maggie to untie him - it's intense and urgent. And at the same time, I don't believe that Drew, at any time, went "over the top" and overacted. All in all - well done!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One of the most important
things to me – as a producer of this series is: Is what’s happening clear? I’m a pain-in-the-ass about this with all levels of the crew
and cast and especially
in the editing room. On a very
basic level – the audience has to be able to follow and understand what is happening. Again,
and even though I thought this was an excellent script, there was a great deal
of potential danger of “what is happening?” to not be clear. What was happeing to and within Hal, at
any given moment, was the main place where lack of clarity was potential.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was especially relevant when we got into the editing room. The first cut was good and exciting - but, more so than usual, I found myself sitting with the editor and <u>really</u> talking about where and on which characters we should be at any given moment. There were so many choices... at any moment in the story we could (for instance) be on Hal yelling from the window, Tom worried for his son and strategizing an escape, Weaver conflicted about what to do, Pope angry and resentful at what he sees as injustice, Maggie worried about the man she loves as well as her culpability for not telling someone sooner what she knew... etc. etc. We went through the cut in painstaking detail trying every choice. And, of course, every choice yielded different results.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This writing and prep of the script was interesting and unusual too. Even though the story had been planned from the beginning - what happened in the course of the season is that we got behind due to re-writes on previous episodes... While never desired, this is all very normal in the course of a TV season - but it put the writer's behind at this moment in the season's schedule. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I'm not sure what the original plan was for the writing of this script - but I know that late in the game - Remi assigned the team of Bradley & David and John Wirth on it - and that they wrote it relatively quickly. This group had never written a script together before, and, while it was done quickly it went very smoothly. I believe the strengths of the team were well realized. In my mind Bradley & David are specilalists at complex action and rising drama. John is very strong at character development and writing both internal and external character conflict. Now, I don't mean to short change any of these guys by simplifying their work down like this - all of them can write many, varied aspects of a story. But, from where I sit, these are their strengths... And this story brought all of that out.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While under the gun, and maybe <u>because</u> we were under the gun - we had excellent communication between the writer's team and the production team on this one. I remember a couple of long teleconfrences - one one side were Adam, myself and cinematographer, Nate Goodman in a small trailer in the pouring rain... And on the other side were the writer's in LA. (It was probably warm and sunny down in LA, grrr...) On these calls we <u>really</u> hashed through this one. And it helped a lot - both in terms of the physical organization and prioritizing and in terms of the drama.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One last thing worth mentioning for fun. Nate Goodman and Adam Kane are old friends. For many years Adam was a cinematographer and Nate was his camera operator. Adam was the cinematographer and Nate was the camera operator on the pilot of HEROES. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Later, on HEROES, when I was working on it, Adam got his chance to direct for the first time and Nate got his chance to move up to cinematographer. Neither men have looked back since then. Adam has consistently been a director and even a producer/director on series such as <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183865/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">ALPHAS,</a> and Nate has been exclusively a cinematographer ever since.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But they've never had a chance to work together in their new capacities until now. I think their ease and familiarity with each other, also helped this episode run smoothly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Thanks, and until next week...</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our </span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span id="taw" style="margin-right: 0;"><a class="spell" href="https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-a&hs=Xvc&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=grizzled&spell=1&sa=X&ei=d9fZUdeELMnWiwL7yoCgBg&ved=0CCwQvwUoAA"><b><i>grizzled</i></b></a></span> vet: Will Patton</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Amidst the wreckage and ruin (also - keep in mind - we <u>built, constructed or hauled in </u>everything that you see in all of these pictures!)</span></span></td></tr>
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<br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-77252552840479812592013-06-30T22:34:00.000-07:002013-07-03T17:23:28.086-07:00SEASON 3 - EPISODE 5 - "SEARCH AND RECOVERY"<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b>SEASON 3 - EPISODE 5: </b></span><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"SEARCH AND RECOVERY"</span></b></span><br />
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-large;">WARNING: THIS BLOG CONTAINS SPOILERS - IF SPOILERS MAKE YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'VE BEEN CHASED BY SKITTERS AND THROWN OVER A WATERFALL - STOP READING NOW!!!</span></span></span></u></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tonight's episode was written by: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1819118/" target="_blank">Jordan Rosenberg</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">And was directed by: <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0590790/" target="_blank">Sergio Mimica-Gezzan </a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It rained every day on this episode. And not just a little. Hard core pounding rain. It’s the main thing I remember about
it. And to make matters worse,
there were only about two days shooting indoors. The cast and crew were wet to the bone – the horses were wet
to the bone – the sets were waterlogged – all day – every day.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Vancouver crews however, are experts at shooting in the
rain. And the weird thing about
rain, which I only learned by working in Vancouver a lot is, if you don’t <u>want</u>
to see the rain – you don’t. To
see rain you have to back-light it.
(To see snow, oddly enough, you must front-light it.) (Oh yeah, also the ocean – if you want
to see it – front light!)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On almost every scene in this episode, the crew hung tarps
from trees and on huge poles which they extended and they kept the rain off the
set. Most of the time you don’t
sense it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I think, in fact, Noah was a little disappointed when he
realized how little we saw of the sleeting rain. For he and for <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0192271/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Collin Cunningham</a> – this was a physically
arduous episode. They were not only
wet, but they were running and jumping and fighting and moving around in heavy
water-soaked clothes for twelve hours a day, all-day, for days on end.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Even if the rain doesn’t show up that much, I <u>do</u>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The inspiration for the film, from Remi Aubuchon and the writer’s
room, was an old 1958 movie called:</span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051525/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank"> THE DEFIANT ONES</a> in which <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000348/?ref_=tt_ov_st" itemprop="url"><span class="itemprop" itemprop="name">Tony Curtis</span></a> and
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001627/?ref_=tt_ov_st" itemprop="url"><span class="itemprop" itemprop="name">Sidney Poitier</span></a>, play two prisoners chained together after a prison break. Remi thought it would be fun to see perennial adversaries, Tom and Pope, forced to be together and to survive together.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Noah was excited about this idea from the first time he heard of it, early on. He and Remi talked together a lot about how the two characters would interact and evolve. To both Remi and Noah it was important to learn more about the characters than we had known before - and to see both dark sides in Tom and light sides in Pope that we hadn't seen before.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The two most memorable of these moments (for me) were the story Tom tells, in bits and pieces, about how his father was a drunk and ran a hardware store. This presents a very different history of Tom Mason than we may have suspected. I also love the way Noah played the scene. It was scripted that Tom was buildng a fire, but the director, Noah and Collin evolved it just a little differently.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The script said this:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"Tom starts searching for dry dead wood. Pope shakes his head, but can’t think of anything else to do but get up and help."</span> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But what occured during the rehearsal, was that Noah began to build a fire in a focused and intense way. Pope sits in the background egging him on. As Tom talks, and as painful small details</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> of his life story come out, he stays focused on the fire. I think that Noah's intensity around the fire building adds intensity to the story that would have been too direct and maybe even</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> saachrine</span></span>, if he'd been looking directly at Pope and engaging with him. I think the fact that Tom was turned away from Pope, also gave Collin Cunningham a chance to do a great reaction of surprise when he hears this story, without giving away any empathy to Tom.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Now, I don't mention this to put the script or screenwriter's down in any way. The screenplay is the roadmap that directors and actor's follow. Without a script we would be lost at sea. But our job is also to use the script as a jumping off point, and we strive to maximize the effect both visually and in terms of performance, and enhance it if we can. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On Pope's side of the aisle is the very lengthy and intense story that Pope tells of how he lost his family and ended up in jail. Collin was a bit anxious about this scene going in, because it is a very long story, unbroken by anything other than a few small interjections by Tom. It also had the potential to get </span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">saachrine or self-pitying. </span></span></span></span>The trick in a scene like this, again, is to not be too direct or too "connected" to the emotions of the scene, but instead to get lost in the telling and remembering of it. To sublimate the painful emotions and to tell it in a detached way is better. And Collin, working with Sergio, picked his way down this path. When I started to study the film in the editing room, I saw that Collin had done a number of variations in his performance - some were bigger and some were smaller. In one version he got almost angry as he told the story. It was great that he gave us so many colors and choices - and we used pieces of many takes to put together the vesrion we have in here. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Also, Noah, for his part - just listened - intently. I feel when I watch Noah's very focused reaction to Pope's story, that there is both incredulity at what he's hearing and some empathy as well.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the end of course, although they may know each other better - Pope and Tom will always be on the opposite sides of things. The line that sums this up best (that I <i>think </i>John Wirth wrote) is the line from Pope in the final scene - "Next basket wins."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The other half of this episode is, of course, the search for Anne - lead by Weaver of horseback.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What's interesting is, that coming out of his first reading of the script, Sergio always saw this story as Matt's story. Matt is the one who strayed from his fathers side, and had had words with Anne in episode 2 of this season. Matt is the one who is coming of age in this harsh world, and who is wanting to fight. But here he is the observer - the one taking in the harshness and the determination. He is the one who insists on burying the woman they find, and on eulogizing her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">If you watch the episode again, notice how in many scenes there are group shots of the cast, and maybe the occasional medium close-up - but the close close-ups are reserved for Matt, watching and taking things in.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Finally I'll talk about some of the complexities that go into what end up just being a few seconds of film. When Tom and Pope are chased to the edge of the cliff by skitters - Remi, really wanted Tom and Pope to leap off the edge into the water (taking a page out of <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064115/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID</a>) - we searched for cliffs over rivers - but nothing was available in range of our production. The nearest decent sized waterfall was 100 miles away. Sergio came up with the idea to do the jump virtually - his plan was to film Tom and Pope in the woods on the edge of a small cliff - to make their POV (the "down" angle) a backplate of a distant river with Tom and Pope on blue screen. And the jump would be done with stunt men.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This was a good plan but it didn't quite work. We couldn't find the appropriate sized cliff's edge in the vicinity where we were shooting. So the art department built an eight feet tall twelve feet wide "cliff edge." It was made from plywood and covered in scenic dirt and grass and weeds. Noah and Collin ran up to the edge of this and stopped abruptly - then they backed up and jumped off-stage into an air bag.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The waterfall was harder though. We found the right one, but the Canadian Conservation Corp. wouldn't let people jump into the water (the river became a source of drinking water downstream.) So we sent Visual Effects Producer Curt Miller, up to the river to film a backplate which we would later add a CGI Tom and Pope into. But the complexities continued. Curt needed two splashes in the water - so something heavy had two be thrown in. Well if Canada wasn't going to let two humans jump in - they certainly wouldn't let two blocks of metal either. After much thought - Curt came up with a plan... The special effects team built two catapults side by side and loaded them each with 100 pound blocks of ice. The ice was catapulted into the water... Splash! Splash! We were happy! And Canada was happy!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />And finally, finally... Matt Frewer meets his demise in this episode. I've talked over the years in this blog (in regards to this show and others) that I've had the repeated and unfortunate task of telling actors they're being killed off. Most recently it was Crazy Lee. And now I had to tell Matt.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">But - unlike most, who take it with grim acceptance - Matt took it with rather well... "I was wonedring when you guys were gonna kill me off!" He told me, with a big smile. "I'm surprised I lasted this long!" Anyway - I haven't talked about Matt enough - but he was a great and very fun guy to have around. And I will miss him!</span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">SARAH CARTER IS AN EXPERIENCED HORSEWOMAN. IN REAL LIFE, SHE VOLUNTEERED TO TAKE CARE OF MAXIM ON SET. THE WRITERS LIKED THAT AND PUT IT IN THE SCRIPT FOR MAGGIE.</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">THIS IS THE KIND OF DETAIL THE ART DEPARTMENT PACKS INTO EVERY FRAME OF OUR SHOW...</span></span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">AND THIS</span></span>...</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></span>Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-848995559352804032013-06-23T22:48:00.000-07:002013-06-23T22:48:17.608-07:00SEASON 3 - EPISODE 4 - "AT ALL COSTS"<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">SEASON 3 - EPISODE 4:</span></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;">"AT ALL COSTS"</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">EPISODE 304 “AT ALL COSTS”</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Tonight’s episode is the second one I’ve directed this
season – the first being the first hour of the season opener.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Directing episodes of FALLING SKIES is a particularly
exhausting thing to do. It is a
fast moving train with high expectations, and the only way to succeed is to
constantly be going at a bullet-like pace. SAMLLVILLE and HEROES, two of my other shows, were, I
believe, comparable in scope and complexity – but both of those shot for at
least two more days per episode than FALLING SKIES.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Partially because of this, and also because I find it hard
to stay on top of the other ongoing complexities of the series (i.e. my
producing responsibilities) if I direct too frequently – I normally don’t
direct two episodes this close together.
Yes, in both season 1 and 2 I directed two episodes back-to-back, but
those were conceived, written, prepped and shot as a block.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But this episode had special circumstance. You see, last summer, a few months
before we began photography, we learned that <b>Moon Bloodgood</b> was
pregnant, and that her due date was late December. Just a few weeks before shooting began, we further learned
that Moon’s doctor had recommended that she not fly past late October. Since she would be delivering in Los
Angeles and we shoot in Vancouver, Canada – that meant that she would be
leaving the show for the year in the middle of episode 4!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Within a day of hearing this news, head writer Remi Aubuchon
and I sat down and began to form a plan.
The writers would effectively have to write Anne out of the season
before we were even halfway in.
Furthermore (and I can’t spoil too much here) if there were to be any
scenes with her that occurred in later episodes, they would have to be written
and shot during the production of episode 4… <u>well in advance</u> of when
they would normally be written. A conundrum by anyone's standards.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">These factors, obviously, posed enormous creative and
production challenges, and for this reason – and because I really love working
with Moon and feel that we have a great collaboration, <u>and</u> because I
wanted to make her exit from the season comfortable – I chose to
direct this episode.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Now in episode 1, when Anne Glass was <u>supposed</u> to be
pregnant, we had the rare luxury of having Moon be conveniently pregnant. The only problem was, Anne also gives birth
in the first episode...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(By the way – a worthy sidebar – is that during filming of
the birth scene, Moon’s real-life husband came by to watch Moon huffing and
puffing and screaming in imaginary labor, and then, a bit later to watch her
cuddle a goo covered newborn. I
could tell while watching that this was an oddly wonderful moment for the
couple, as they got a very unusual opportunity to practice what would soon be
happening to them in real life.)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In episodes 2 through 4 we had to go through the complex
(but relatively frequent problem that occurs in TV and movies) of having to
hide our leading ladies pregnancy.
If you look carefully in these episodes, you’ll find that Anne is
frequently standing behind tall counters or that there’s a stack of files, or
piece of laboratory equipment placed in front of her mid-section. Sometimes, luckily, she could carry an
actual baby in front of her to hide her belly.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">One of the more fun scenes to direct in this one, was the
final scene where Anne is running away from Charleston, to who-knows-where,
with her baby. Her maternal
instincts have kicked in and she knows that, without Tom, she will have no one
to help her protect baby Alexis once the baby’s hybrid status becomes
known. Smart or not, she decides to
flee taking her chances in the wild.
As she’s fleeing she, her path in intercepted by a skitter and a
harnessed girl – as she turns to run away Hal blocks her path. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">This kind of stuff is just a fun for me in general, rubble
and aliens and creepy, harnessed girls are the kind of stuff I enjoy. But on this night there was another odd
thing I noticed… Between takes
Moon was holding one of the twins who plays baby Alexis. <b>Kieth</b> <b>Arbuthnot</b>, who plays the skitter was in full makeup, a few feet away, bobbing back and forth
and making weird skitter gestures.
And then I notice the baby, who is no more than 3 months old, is just
staring and staring at the skitter.
For a second I was freaked out, like “Oh no, the skitter puppet is going
to scare the baby.” But then I
realized that she wasn’t scared at all.
She was just staring and staring at it, very intently. Now, to us, the skitter is a really
frightening looking thing. But, I
realized, to a three month old it must be no odder than seeing a dog or a deer
or elephant for the first time. I
don’t know, it may have just been me, and nobody else seemed to notice this at
all – but I found it both interesting and amusing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The idea of the real
President of the United States being alive, was an idea that was very important to Noah Wyle,
and which he promoted and protected during the evolution of this script.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I think, for Noah, he
felt that the idea of the real President still being alive was something that
would give, both his character, and all the survivors a sense of hope and continuity
about the world. I think he also
felt that Tom shouldn’t get bogged down in the politics of Charleston. Both Noah and his alter ego Tom are
very aware that the position, while important, has a limited importance as long
as the Espheni still control the planet.
To make this position clear. Noah ad-libbed a wonderful line in the
first episode… When Anne talks to
him about the workload of being President, Tom shoots back “President of ten
square blocks.” It was a nice
touch.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">When the script was
written and it was time to cast the president, after some debate and a number
of different names bandied about…
It was easy to get a group consensus on Stephen Collins who, as I’m sure
you all know was the lead on the
hit series "7th Heaven" for 11 years. Stephen was a true gentleman and after meeting him at his
wardrobe fitting, Noah and I pulled each other aside and said, “Yeah. He seems truly “Presidential.” So we were happy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">I’d like to talk a bit
about Doug Jones, who plays Cochise.
Doug spends 3 hours every day getting into his special effects makeup,
and one and a half hours getting out of it. Once he’s in, he’s in for the day – which can be 12 to 14
hours. The makeup is heavy, hot
and oppressive. The Masters FX
team has made whatever considerations they can – there’s a port that comes out
of Cochise’s facemask so that he can eat, for instance. But to just <u>wear</u>
the suit, forget about acting, is a challenge. Doug likens it to being an athlete. He has to manage his energy all day. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">But then Doug <u>acts</u>. I’ve done a fair bit, not a lot, of
creature fx makeup work over the years – but I’ve never seen anyone be able to
transform 40 pounds of rubber into a character and a performance like Doug
does. It’s truly remarkable.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">At the script stage,
the studio and we producers raised concerns about the long monologue that
Cochise has in the middle of the episode (the one about the Catarious flower on
the Volm’s home planet.) It’s not
that we doubted Doug, but it was a lot of critical emotion and exposition to
hang on a man in a mask. Remi
Aubachaun hung firm in his belief in the importance of the speech, and we
pressed on. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">On the day we filmed
the scene, on the first “take” – I was blown away. Doug (with his character’s hands tied behind his back no
less!) imbued Cochise with so much emotion and history that I was truly
touched. It’s fascinating for me
to watch and I’m glad that I get to keep continue learning after all these
years of doing what I do. But
everything Doug does to make the character come alive is done vocally with
tone, cadence and inflection – and with the smallest movement of the head and
shoulders. What he does is really
an art form that he is quite uniquely skilled at!</span></span></div>
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Drew Roy’s performance as Hal and as Evil Hal. This was another thing that created quite a bit of
discussion in prep. Again, we all
believed in Drew, and I felt that the moment he did at the end of last season when
the eye bug crawled into his ear, was fantastic… But here was a whole new persona, that, frankly, done wrong
could be a bit cheesy. We talked a
lot about how to portray “Evil Hal,” and how not to not overdo him. I had a couple of brief conversations
with Drew about it, but not much.</span></span></div>
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filming, just as Doug had, Drew stepped up and slayed both of his roles. He was clearly in a “zone.” Normally Drew is happy-go-lucky and
loves to talk and joke around on set.
But the day we filmed the scene at the mirror he was quiet and focused
and intense. His performance, I
thought, was great – and I really directed him almost not at all. (One of the keys to doing my job well
is to know how much or how little to work with an actor. I have to be prepared at all times to
get in there and give an actor everything from intentions, history, technique
and even line readings if they’re really struggling. Or if an actor is right where they need to be, I have to
have the discipline to back of and let them do their thing.)</span></span></div>
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scene where Drew speaks to himself in the mirror and see if you can figure out
how we did it. Notice also one of
the later shots in the scene where the camera pushes in further than it should
be able to into the mirror. It’s
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about the dogfight that ends the episode. The model of plane used in the episode was a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Model_12_Electra_Junior" target="_blank">LockheedElectra</a>. For some reason, this specific model
was very important to Remi (who is an avid pilot). Grace Gilroy, our whiz line producer, actually found two of
these planes. One was lovingly
preserved and could actually fly.
The other was in an airplane museum and couldn’t fly, but the interior
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to build the plane interior. He
advocated quite strenuously that we needed to have a proper mockup with walls that
could pop out and so on. Anything
else, he said, wouldn’t be practical for filming. The problem is the interior of this plane is tiny – with low
head room and with barely enough room to move around in. (It’s hard to believe this was used for
cross-continental passenger flights in the old days.)</span></span></div>
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didn’t have the money to build the plane interior – and so we just rolled the
shell of the museum plane into a hanger and draped blue screen around it. The effects guys hooked a forklift to
the tail so that they coukd jostle it a bit but not much.
We were SQUEEZED in there big time. Noah and Matt Frewer were elbow to elbow and the camera
operator and focus puller could barely fit in the back, especially with Collin
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the action works at all, if there’s any sense of pitch and yaw – it’s because
of the actors – mostly Noah, and camera operator Mike Wrinch slamming them
selves around and Mike tilting the camera at critical moments. Also, the VFX guys from Zoic did a
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Head writer, <b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0041469/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">Remi Aubachon</a></b> told me<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>weeks before the season was started that episode 3 of the
season was going to be a “bottle show<span style="font-size: large;">." </span> I’ve talked in this blog <span style="font-size: large;">before </span>about what a bottle show is – basically it’s an episode designed to be under
budget in order to make up for the excesses of the over budget ones (like the
season 3 premiere and second episode.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To be under budget on this show, ideally we
would shoot in 7 days and not 8 (which is our norm) and we would have no, or at
least limited, action and visual effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some of our bottle shows have been our best episodes, IMHO, because
without the effects and action to lean on the writing has to step up… And I
certainly think that’s the case with “BADLANDS."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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before, but the folks at DreamWorks had, and <span style="font-size: large;">they </span>had nothing but the highest praise
for him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is a former editor,
who became a director long ago…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Among his many credits he was the producer director on <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118276/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER</a> </b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>- which made my assistant, the
impossible-to-replace Ashley Shields Muir quite happy as she is quite the Buffy
fan.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has also done a number of
<b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1843230/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">ONCE UPON A TIME</a> </b>episodes - which I directed one of as well – and the guys over
there are big fans of his.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So,
while it’s always unnerving for me to work with people I have never worked with
before, I had a degree of comfort going into it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The writer is </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936210/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">John Wirth</a>.<span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">John is an
old friend of mine.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">We worked
together in the mid 1990’s on the CBS series </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/find?q=Nash+Bridges&s=all" target="_blank">NASH BRIDGES</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">, starring
Don Johnson.</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">That was my
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">A number of people from that series
went on to do quite well – </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0193681/?ref_=sr_2" target="_blank">Carlton Cuse </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">was the creator and showrunner, and he
famously teamed up with another young writer from NASH BRIDGES </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0511541/" target="_blank"> Damon Lindelof </a> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">to run LOST.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0752841/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Shawn Ryan</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">who
created THE SHIELD and LAST RESORT was also a <span style="font-size: large;">novice</span> writer on NASH.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And John Wirth, went on to executive-produce
and run shows like, THE CAPE,</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0851851/" target="_blank">TERMINATOR: THE SARAH CONNOR CHRONICHLES </a>,</span><span class="itemprop"> </span><span class="itemprop"><span style="font-weight: normal;">and T</span></span><span class="itemprop"><span style="font-weight: normal;">HE DISTRICT </span></span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>as well as
many others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> I'm not sure why NASH was such a breeding ground for success - Maybe because Carlton was such a good mentor, maybe because the show was so crazy challenging that it raised everybody's game - probably a bit of both.</span></span></span></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">Our NASH BRIDGES bond
has kept John and I in touch over the years – and during the shooting of this
episode John, Carlton Cuse and I actually got together for a rare NASH BRIDGES reunion
dinner one night – as Carlton was up in Vancouver filming on his latest series</span>
<a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2188671/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">BATES MOTEL</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">…</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Much
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As I described last week, FALLING SKIES took over the Ajitan
studios in Vancouver.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ajitan has a
small sound stage, where, this year we built the “Pope’s Nest” bar set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It also has a small (about 1 ½ city blocks
long) urban-street-exterior set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
made arrangements with the studio the largely reorganize and, in some cases
even level, portions of their street set in order to create the above-ground
portion of Charleston.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think,
when John and the other writers conceived the story of this episode, they were
trying to be responsible, setting the entire tale in Charleston. The only
problem was that much of it was written in the perimeter, called, in the
screenplay, “The Badlands.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well,
the badlands, as described <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>didn’t
exist in what we’d built.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
were supposedly an series of outposts that the 2<sup>nd</sup> Mass stood watch
in, in the leveled, scorched-earth, outside the city walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They needed to be surrounded on all sides by rubble and
collapse – not by buildings we’d just established in the first two episodes.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> </span></o:p></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, Production Designer Rob Gray and the art
department – who had only just finished completion of the main city set, in a
grueling 6 week time frame – now had to create a new series of small sets which
we built on the blacktop parking lot where we usually parked the shooting crew<span style="font-size: large;">. This was </span>about
100 yards from the main set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
sets were mostly rubble and beams and twisted metal – which sounds easy to make, but which is really an engineering nightmare. The goal was, that as you
face into the sets, the rubble behind would block the view of the Charleston
exterior, and as you faced away – we would add big blue screens (sometimes 100
feet wide and 30 feet tall), where we would add matte paintings of distant
destruction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was quite a project and Rob and his team –
after much of the usual debate about how to proceed, which happens in
pre-production, they ended up with only a few days to build the whole thing. They gathered scrap steel and wood and brought in truckloads of <span style="font-size: large;">broken-up concrete. Rob even found <span style="font-size: large;">the shell of a burned up helicopter - I'm not s<span style="font-size: large;">ure from where. Meanwhile, Grace Gilroy and the production team had to figure out where to relocate the parking for our 120<span style="font-size: large;">-man shooting and prepping crew. (Some of the behind-the-scenes work is quite mundane, but it drives us nonetheless!)</span></span></span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The things that I loved upon first reading of
this script was the way the characters moved forward despite a simple and
contained setup.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think John
brilliantly put every character under a lot of strain and pressure – the
pressure of boredom <span style="font-size: large;">and </span>long hours waiting and the pressure of<span style="font-size: large;"> </span>an impending
battle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There were a number of things explored in this
script that we hadn’t explored before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pope and his relationship to his<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
team of </span>“Berserkers,”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hadn’t really
been delved into.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Matt Mason’s
story evolved, as he moves away from the moral-center of the Mason family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the politics of Charleston are
explored – both in terms of Gloria Rueben’s character, Marina, evolving and
Tom’s role as President changing dramatically when the idea that the <u>real</u>
President of the USA may still be alive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">There are three actors who play Pope’s “Berserkers.”</span><span style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0730455/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">Ryan Robbins</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">, </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">whose character, “Tector,” was flushed out quite well in
last year’s episode </span><span style="font-weight: normal;">DEATH MARCH<span style="font-size: large;">.</span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Lyle”
is played by former stuntman, now actor, the irrepressible </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0446219/?ref_=sr_1," target="_blank">Brad Kelly </a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> who I’ve talked about in these pages quite a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the last member of the gang is
“Crazy Lee” played by</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"> </span><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1382781/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">Luciana Carro</a><span style="font-weight: normal;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s worth
clicking on her link to see that in real life, Luciana is a beautiful young
woman who usually plays much more glamorous parts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When the part of “Crazy Lee” was written in
season two we had a hard time casting it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The part, although small, was very colorful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She was meant to be a rough, tough, snarling, but somehow
sexy (or at least horny) biker chick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We read a number of rough, tough, women and actual biker girls for the
role – some of whom were quite colorful.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But no one was right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was really committed to the idea that this small character would be
realistically rough around the edges and not glamorous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Remi proposed Luciana, who he'd worked with on BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - I
resisted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She read on tape in Los
Angeles, and her reading was quite good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But she was so damn pretty – and I really wanted to avoid the st<span style="font-size: large;">ereotype of </span>a hot sexy biker
chick<span style="font-size: large;">. </span>I wanted what I thought would be a more realistic post-apocalyptic
character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my mind, if she was
going to run with Pope and his gang she would have to be pretty gnarly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as the audition process waned on
and time became short, it became obvious that Luciana was the best choice…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, “Okay,” I thought to myself, “We’ll
just have to mess her up.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">My first encounter with Luciana was over the
phone, just after she’d landed the role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
She was very excited to have just gotten the part - and<span style="font-size: large;">, a<span style="font-size: large;">lthough I wasn't there to burst her bubble<span style="font-size: large;">, I <span style="font-size: large;">think <span style="font-size: large;">I did. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">I couldn’t see her, but I could <u>feel</u> her shocked expression as I
described to her how we were going to portray her character – dirty, rough and
gnarly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I could tell by the timber
of her voice that she was in shock.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But she went along, cheerfully, with what I was saying.</span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">On her first day on set, in the makeup trailer, I
think that sense of shock remained.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We were covering her with dirt, ratting up her hair, staining her teeth,
and putting her in less-than-form-fitting biker clothes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> A</span>s she sat in the makeup
chair<span style="font-size: large;"> that day,</span> she was being a good sport – but I think she was still in shock.<o:p></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> </span></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">But –
as soon as Luciana hit the set on her first day – I saw a transformation
overcome her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First off, it was
probably comforting that EVERY person on set was smeared with dirt and has
makeup bruises and scratches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
soon enough, she really got into this character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
Her body language and the way she carried herself changed, becoming rogher and less fem<span style="font-size: large;">i</span>nine. She began to explore a raspy, grating voice. In general, s</span>he threw herself into it, and I’m quite sure that “Crazy Lee” is like
no<span style="font-size: large;"> role </span>she’s done before.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Well,
tonight was the night that for Crazy Lee, like many before her on our show, it
was game over.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The real genesis of
<u>why</u> we killed her, came from Steven Spielberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has nothing against Crazy Lee, but he wanted us to show
Pope’s vulnerable side – he wanted to show an emotional side to Pope that the
audience hadn’t seen and that he (and we) knew Collin Cunningham could deliver.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">As
I’ve talked about it before, that one of my unhappy jobs on this show is to be the angel of death. Actors fear when I ask them to come privately into my office. And here, once again, it was my task to pull Luciana into my office and let
her know that the end was near.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>She took it well, but later I heard, she got really sad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>FALLING SKIES is a close-knit family
and it’s a lot of fun on set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So
leaving is hard.</span></h1>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Luckily
for Luciana, John Wirth’s poignant script gave her a lot to play. The whole story of the pipe through the
head (which I guess is based on some real-life story of a construction worker
in Brazil – who SURVIVED!) was very interesting and unique. And the fact that Crazy Lee knew she
was going to die for many hours before she did, gave her a lot to play with. My favorite of John’s dialogue is the
stuff about Disneyland – and how Pope can’t go because he got into a fight with
Goofy. Of course, in our world,
Disneyland is no more – and I think both of the characters know it. It is a dialogue of farewell and
friendship between two friends who can't speak more directly, because of the
nature of their characters, who must ma<span style="font-size: large;">in<span style="font-size: large;">ta<span style="font-size: large;">i</span>n an exterior of st<span style="font-size: large;">rength</span></span></span>. Very
nice!</span></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Another
aspect of this script that I enjoyed, and that I’m enjoying this season is how
Matt Mason’s character is evolving. </span></span></h1>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">(By the way... Did any of you ever have a MAJOR MATT MASON, MAN ON THE MOON toy as a kid - like me? Check it out: <b><a href="http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/167/" target="_blank">http://www.dialbforblog.com/archives/167/</a>.</b> Matt Mason's name on our show has always bugged me because of this - but I'm not sure if anyone else knows about this toy.) </span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">Remi<span style="font-size: large;">'s point of view was that</span>, while Hal and Ben have been given much of Tom Mason's attention, even if it's in the form of conflict or worry - Matt has been largely ignored by Tom of late. Not for any malicious reasons, but because of Tom's overwhelming workload as both President and Alien Fighter. Because of this, Remi presumes that Matt would have a tendency to drift away from the moral center of all that is Mason-ness. And who better to enjoy taking in this wayward boy and lead him to the dark side, than Pope? I find this story quite interesting and, frankly, necessary because Maxim Knight is getting older and we, as filmmakers, have to address that he's no longer the wide-eyed little boy who's close-up is the first live action image in the whole of the Falling Skies Universe: </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S09-gl3z2o" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S09-gl3z2o</a></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;"> </span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">
<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;">The question, going forward is - how much trouble will Matt get into? Or will Tom be able to pull him back<span style="font-size: large;">?</span></span></span></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 16.0pt; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"><o:p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></o:p></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">Another aspect of this story, originally, was Tom Mason's ongoing political life. John Wirth and Remi really wanted to show the machinations of how the tedious and time consuming aspects of Presidency were wearing on Tom. The nature of re-building the United States and the <span style="font-size: large;">w</span>orld into a government that can oversee the people, very much interests many of us behind-the-scenes. There was a more elaborate storyline in early drafts of the script, that showed Tom's trevails around vetting a vice-presidential candidate. There were a number of scenes between Tom and Marina, and there were <span style="font-size: large;">several </span>small scenes with potential vice-presidents. I'm sad that some of this went away, because it developed the Tom/Marina relationship well. But, frankly, and despite John's strong dialogue and writing<span style="font-size: large;">, </span>those of us behind the scenes deemed that the storyline was a little tedious<span style="font-size: large;">,</span> when compared to spikes through<span style="font-size: large;">-</span>the<span style="font-size: large;">-</span>head and imminent alien invasions. The story was truncated down to it's bare bones before we ever shot any of it.</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;"> </span></span></h1>
<div style="font-family: Arial;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large; font-weight: normal;">It was fun to watch Noah Wyle and Gloria Rueben work together. As you may or may not know, they acted together on the long-running series "ER". Gloria fell into step with our group quite instantly. She is professional and prepared. My <span style="font-size: large;">quickly formed impression is that she was <span style="font-size: large;">a true lady, in the classic sense of that word. </span></span>And when it came time to do the long "oner" shots in our show (like the one in the first few minutes when they discuss politics and end beside Jeannie at the "Liberty Tree") she and Noah fell right into step. The long oner was a staple of early "ER" - and quite groundbreaking at it's time.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Finally I'd like to discuss the song sung at the Liberty Tree service at the end of the episode. Wri<span style="font-size: large;">ter</span> <b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734441/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank">Robert Rodat</a></b><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0734441/?ref_=sr_1" target="_blank"> </a>who created FALLING SKIES, was literally obsessed with the song <b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMsUIUw5mEM" target="_blank">ONE VOICE</a></b>, originally sung by the group "The Wailin' Jenny's". He felt it was very thematic to the vision he had for FALLING SKIES - the idea of many pulling together as one to survive.</span></div>
<div style="font-family: Arial;">
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the first season there was an episode that ended with the 2nd Mass breaking bread and saying Grace. Originally, Robert pushed hard for that to be a scene in with Loudres, followed by Anne and then followed by others spontaneously sang this song. At that time, and being a new and very over-budget series, we couldn't afford the licensing rights and/or get it together. But in season 3 we had the chance. I think Remi and gang wrote the song into the episode without even telling Mr. Rodat about it - so he must've been quite happily surprised when he saw the episode.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">EPISODE 301: "</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier Final Draft"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier Final Draft";">ON THIN ICE"</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">EPISODE 302: "</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "Courier Final Draft"; mso-bidi-font-family: "Courier Final Draft";">COLLATERAL DAMAGE"</span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><u>WARNING: THERE ARE SPOILERS
HIDDEN BENEATH THE SURFACE HERE – IF YOU CAN’T HANDLE SPOILERS – RUN!</u></b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">PART 1 - BEFORE WE BEGAN </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Wow!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Season 3 is finally here!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You guys have been waiting
for nine months!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’ve JUST now
finished with post production and am already meeting with the writers, lining
up directors and crewmembers and having creative meetings with TNT for season
4!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Considering that FALLING
SKIES only makes 10 episodes a year, it’s an oddly round-the-year job for the head-writer, Dreamworks and myself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We completed
shooting Season 2 in Vancouver Canada in February of 2012 and I concentrated,
almost full time, on editing immediately upon my return to Los Angeles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because of the many visual effects and
the complex sound design, postproduction – it takes a lot longer than most
television shows.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have the
added benefit of not having to be on the air immediately, so this also allows
us to take our time getting things right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Nevertheless, the editing, sound mixing and color correcting process
took me into May of 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Which, ironically is just about exactly when the writer’s room started
up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I suppose Season 3, of
FALLING SKIES really began for or me and the writers in May of 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remi Aubachon came back with most of
the same writing team from last season, with the notable addition of <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0936210/" target="_blank">John Wirth,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></a> </b>an excellent writer and veteran show runner who has
been the head writer on many TV series such as THE DISTRICT and SARAH CONNER
CHRONICALS.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John and I had worked
together an eon ago with Carlton Cuse on the wild and wooly Don Johnson series
NASH BRIDGES.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(There are many
exciting tales from that era, but that is another story.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The most notable writers-room loss from Season 2 was <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2913498/?ref_=tt_ov_wr" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Joe Weisberg </b> </a>who left our show to
create another DreamWorks series FX hit, THE AMERICANS.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In early June we had our
annual meeting with both Steven Spielberg and Michael Wright, the president of television
of TNT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">These are always exciting meetings to
be in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For one thing, being in a
meeting with Mr. Spielberg and watching how his mind works is just a rush.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He truly gets excited about this series and when he
gets on a roll, creative ideas flow out of his mind like a gusher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Michael Wright is also an ideal boss to
work for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He loves FALLING SKIES
and he has been it’s strongest advocate from the very, very beginning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">One of Remi’s key ideas was
that the third season was to begin many months after the final moment of Season
2.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The alien who stepped out
of the pod at the end of the final episode was going to become an important
character.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told us he wanted to
name their race “The Volm.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also,
the basic construct of the third season, from Remi’s point of view, was that
Tom and the 2<sup>nd</sup> Mass would now be housed full-time in the ruins of
Charleston South Carolina.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Two
storylines would proceed from this setting, one was that Tom and co. would be
going out from the base of Charleston to do various missions, and the second
was that Tom would have become president, and we would explore the political
nature of rebuilding a new society.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jumping forward in time would allow the writers to skip ahead past the
potentially tedious mechanics of how all this came to be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Among other things, Mr.
Spielberg was very interested in how the new race of aliens would interface
with humanity and what the differences in their technology would be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He wanted both their worldview and
their technology to be very distinct from the Espheni.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among other things, Mr. Wright has
always been fascinated with the political aspects of New America and how Tom’s
character would evolve as a Warrior/Statesmen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Within half an hour or so, the story meeting devolved
into and exciting round robin conversation about “the end game” – where was
this series headed and how would it end!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> It's a</span> lot of fun when you have some of the top creative minds in the world
tossing ideas around!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">In the course of the
meeting, as Remi described the role he saw the new alien(s) playing in the
season, Mr. Spielberg suggested that Tom nickname him “Cochise,” as an homage
to the famous Apache leader.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochise" target="_blank"> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochise</a></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Remi
felt it was important that the new alien be bipedal and relatively
humanoid.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He really wanted to hire
an actor to play the part, versus a fully CGI creation, so that our cast would
have someone to really play scenes with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Beyond that - a fully CGI character would never be economically feasible to have as a main character. Every time our motion-capture Espheni overlords appeared last year they were several thousand of dollars - per shot!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Figuring he was the foremost
expert in the mechanics of aliens in cinema, I asked Mr. Spielberg his take on
how he thought we could achieve this. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was hopeful that we could create a prosthetic makeup suit,
which Todd Masters ad Co. (our skitter creator) could design and that it could
be enhanced by CGI later.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr.
Spielberg was enthusiastic that this <u>could</u> work and offered me several
tips in ways to make the process work best.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After that meeting, Remi and I met a
couple of times as he was forming the storylines…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a handful of new ideas that were going to
affect production and which we’d need to get ahead on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Among the most important was designing
Cochise and hiring an actor to play him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The character who stepped out of the pod at the end of the season was
fully computer generated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While we needed the design to be as similar as possible to the CGI Volm,
some modifications would have to be made in the design to fit human
anatomy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Remi wrote some special
scenes to audition Cochise and we began to make lists of LA-based actors and to
audition Vancouver actors to play the part.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was Todd Masters who suggested <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0427964/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1" target="_blank">Doug Jones</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was unfamiliar with Doug’s work at
the time, but he is undoubtedly the premiere make-up suit actor in the world,
probably in the world: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
God sake, he was ALL the creatures in PAN’S LAYBRINTH, he was Abe Sapien in
HELLBOY, and he was The Silver Surfer in FANTASTIC FOUR 2….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And my irreplaceable assistant was most
impressed by the fact that he was The Gentlemen in the “Hush” episode of BUFFY
THE VAMPIRE SLAYER.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Doug also has a significant
non-makeup-effects resume as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Todd pointed out that, while it might sound like a great idea to hire an
actor, unless someone <u>knows</u> how to wear 60 pounds of latex rubber
covering their whole body and face for 14 hours a day – they will scream like little
children and want to quit.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Todd also told us that the
design and fabrication of the Volm suit would require 10 weeks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Unfortunately, by the time the
machinations of hiring Doug occurred… only 5 weeks were left.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Masters and Co. worked 24-7, but we didn’t
quite have the face and body ready for episode 301.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So in some shots from tonight’s first episode Cochise is
fully CGI and in some his body is practical, but his face is CGI.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">The other MASSIVE project
that took place was for Production Designer Rob Gray and the art
department.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key location in
Season3 is going to be the above ground ruins and the below ground infrastructure
of the city of Charleston.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By the
time TNT picked up season 3, we had only 6 weeks to shooting…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Realize that this show has never had
<u>any</u> sound stages to work from, the way every other TV show in the world does.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In season 1 we housed much
of our story in a real abandoned school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In season 2 we were all on the road and shot on location all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We saw Charleston from afar and used an
abandoned mall as our underground studios – but we’ve NEVER had a proper set.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now we were going to first take
the Ajatan studios buildings which we’d used in season 2 and build a whole
post-bomb city!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were also
finally going to recreate, on a proper sound stage, Tom’s office, a war room, a
medical clinic two other bedrooms and two labs and a bunch of connecting
corridor.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">We also were going to build <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a big new set walled “The Nest” which
was to be Pope’s bar and hang out.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Now, I don’t know if you’ve
ever done a small addition to your house, like add a bedroom or maybe you've remodeled a
kitchen – but it takes more than 6 weeks!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Rob had 6 weeks from the time he arrived, suitcase in hand, to the time
we started shooting to build EVERYTHING!!!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And to further hamper him - the money he had to do it can best
be described as – highly inadequate.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Watching all of our new sets go up, knowing they were
being produced with next-to-no money, was a marvel!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rob is a superhuman!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But you’re probably
wondering about the actual show too, right?<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As you can probably tell,
the first two hours were really written and filmed as two distinct episodes,
and they were grouped together by TNT for the premiere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remi wrote the first hour, which I
directed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brad Thompson and David Weddle
wrote the second hour, and my old SMALLVILLE compatriot, James Marshall
directed.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">PART TWO – THE EPISODES<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Remi discussed with me his
vision for the opening act of Season 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He was definitely living in the “Go big or go home” philosophy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His initial vision was to film the
whole sequence on the ice glacier that exists about 50 miles north of Vancouver
at Whistler Mountain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the
episode title “On Thin Ice” comes from that idea.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Now I’ve shot on the glacier
before and it’s spectacular.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For
the Season 4 finale of SMALLVILLE, when Clark Kent was transported to the
fortress of solitude, we were able to pull it off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that was because it was a very small crew and there was
no actor there besides Tom Welling, and it was the last day of filming for the
season.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom and I flew in the
first helicopter, at dawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then
two more helicopters transported our equipment in very slowly – and once
everything was there we began filming with snowplows and snowmobiles to help
move us around.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was very slow
work and I don’t think we did more than 6 or 7 shots all day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tom Welling and I have talked since, that that day on the glacier was one of the most spectacular days of our filmmaking
lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, as you can tell from
my description, and if you’ve seen the opening sequence – there was NO way we
were going to be able to achieve a scene as complex as the Season 3 opening
under those kind of conditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I tried to get Remi to let
go of his icy vision, and he did so…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I scouted for
alternatives and found, after much searching, a rock quarry that was both spectacular
and quite remote-looking.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
presented Remi the idea that it could be a mine, and that the skitters were
using the harnesses kids to mine ore for some unknown purpose.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He accepted this, and encouraged me to
invent the sequence based on the location.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">What was important to Remi
was that we introduced the characters in layers, first we see just Matt and
Weaver and Jeanne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have one
mission.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Ben and a new set of
de-harnessed kids arrive, then Maggie and Hal and Pope and then when it becomes
clear that a trap has been sprung on our heroes Tom, and our new ally Cochise
arrive.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Beyond that, Remi let me use
the environment I had to develop the specific details of the action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was in Los Angeles and I was in
Vancouver and we communicated almost daily as I fed him ideas of the “we can’t
do that, but we can do this…” variety.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">It was Remi’s idea to have
our heroes on horseback – and Noah fully supported this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noah has done some westerns over the
years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He’s a very good horseman,
as is Will Patton.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sarah Carter
also used to ride horses competitively as a girl.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And even Connor Jessup rode horses as a kid on a series
filmed in Australia called THE SADDLE CLUB…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>SO<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>with his many experienced riders, and post-apocalyptic fuel
running low, the question of horses becomes an inevitability – and here they finally are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://s71.photobucket.com/user/bearkiller1/media/ManyArmedGoddess.jpg.html">http://s71.photobucket.com/user/bearkiller1/media/ManyArmedGoddess.jpg.html</a></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">The other idea was that more
Mechs came out from under the ground to trap our heroes and to show the
audience that the whole operation had been leaked to the Espheni.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the original script there were 4 or
5 regular Mechs who came from under ground.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> This would require us building deep holes which the effects department could put pneumatic "shakers" which would then be covered with both real and plastic boulders. </span>But I didn’t have the physical space for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, truthfully, Remi and Noah and I
all agreed that the Mechs have kind of lost their threat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I felt like this was an opportunity to do something I’ve
been wanting to do for awhile and that is to bring in a new bigger and more
badass mech.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Why not just have two “Mega-Mechs?!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So designs were drawn.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea would be that they would be
huge and powerful with numerous arms – like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva" target="_blank">Shiva</a> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The opening sequence was a
monster to plan and shoot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It had
to be fully storyboarded and planned to a “t” – an then It took three full days
to film, which is equivalent to, like, a year on a feature film.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was running around crazily the
whole time – with two full camera units pointing in different directions
filming different things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all
three days we filmed from sunrise to sunset – there are about 800 separate
edits in the sequence and 120 visual effects shots -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>all that is a monumental amount for less than 10 minutes of
TV.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">And even so, there were
ideas that never made it to the screen, either because we cut them our for
budget or time reasons before we shot, or because I couldn’t get to them on the
day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Specifically:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Ben was supposed to drop in
with four or five other de-harnessed kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the desender rig was complex and expensive so one-by-one we cut it
down to just two kids.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I wanted there to be a
second Mech guarding a high road above the quarry.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a cool scene where Maggie drove in, in the Humvee,
while Hal on the 50mm gun blasted the big robot down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mech was going to roll down the hill and take out an old
guard tower. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were going to use
steel barrels rolling down the hill to accomplish this – but for time reasons
we just couldn’t get to it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was also a scene which
Remi <u>really</u> wanted where Pope leaped onto the back of a Mech, and while
it bucked him around like a bronco he ripped off it’s (already disabled from
battle) arm and then fired his weapon into it’s chest cavity until it was
incapacitated.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We built a
green-screen bucking bronco rig for Pope to ride, and we were going to drive it
around on a little <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gator-golf-cart
contraption with both Collin Cunnigham and a stunt man riding at various
times.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But a day or two away from
filming, it became clear we were NEVER going to have time to get to it in our
schedule – and so it was dropped.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There was one sequence that we
filmed and then omitted in post production.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Originally, after the battle with the mega mechs was
over,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A beamer came flying in from
above to bomb the 2<sup>nd</sup> Mass.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Cochise leapt from his horse, grabbed a big Volm Cannon-gun and blew it
out of the sky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was intended
to demonstrate clearly the superior Volm technology…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But when the sequence was edited together, and after
much deliberation – we all concluded that the scene was anti-climactic and we
omitted it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Beyond that - let me give you a few tidbits from the second hour...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Robert Sean Leonard is an old friend of Noah Wyle's and he was Noah's suggestion. They did a movie together long ago called <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108265/" target="_blank">SWING KIDS</a></span></div>
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<a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005349/" target="_blank">Gloria Reuben</a> was suggested by Noah, TNT and Dreamworks almost simultaneously. She had just completed filming on <a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0443272/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1" target="_blank">LINCOLN</a> when she got to us. She is a lady and a professional and I adored working with her,.</div>
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</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The flamethrower used to fight back the crusty kids was not scripted. The stunt man and the effects team proposed it to the director on the night of filming.</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times;"> </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">The scene where Maggie blasts crusty kids in the hallway was not scripted, Sarah Carter and director James Marshall came up with all that badass action together and shot it all in less than an hour.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">During the shootout in the woods there were so many automatic weapons fired so many times that the budget for the entire season of ammunition was used up in one night</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">The location of the nuclear power plant was an old paper recycling mill in Vancouver. The nuclear towers and dome were added with digital visual effects.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">On the day of filming of the opening scene of the episode, Conner Jessup had just taken a red-eye flight from flown Toronto, where he had received an award at a film festival, to Vancouver and had had no sleep. He still got all of his dialogue perfect.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Some of the harnessed “crusty kids” were played by real children and some by little people who were stunt performers. It took each of them over two hours to get into their makeup and a team of twelve special effects makeup artists to get them ready on the day of filming.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">In the scene where Matt yells “You’re not my mother” to Anne, the director secretly told Maxim Night to yell an unexpected curse word to Moon Bloodgood, which resulted in her genuinely shocked reaction which you see in the episode.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: large;">Whew that's enough for now - enjoy the pictures and storyboards and I'll be back with episode 3 behind-the-scenes next week.</span></div>
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<br />Greg Beemanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01193087984175490915noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32203569.post-11242293086673208512012-09-30T22:03:00.000-07:002013-06-08T11:42:57.230-07:00YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED (FINALLY!)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>SEASON 3 BEGINS TOMORROW!</u></b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u><br /></u></b></span>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><u>NEW BLOG POSTS BEGIN AS WELL!</u></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><u>BE HERE</u></b></span>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: red;"><b>BEEMAN ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS:</b></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Dagnabitt fans – Sorry for the delay in answering –
and thanks so much for all of your questions…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Last year, when I did this same thing we hadn’t
starting shooting yet – we started Season 2 in October. This year, in season 3
of FALLING SKIES, we began shooting in August.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was done partly to get more of what good weather there
is in Canada and also so that we could be done shooting by Christmas.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it HAS negatively impacted this
blog – because I am so dang busy making the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I hope you can tell by watching, that FALLING SKIES is a
very difficult, complex show to produce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Not quite 24-7, but certainly 16-18/7 with a few hours of sleep thrown
in.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Anyway, on set a few days ago Lucciana Caro, aka “Crazy
Lee” said her twitter fans were asking her to ask me to get the questions
answered”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Also there is one question in here I haven't answered yet - about action-figures. It's taking me awhile to get an answer about that one, and it was delaying the blog by too many days. If you care about FALLING SKIES action figures, keep checking back in and I'll add that answer as soon as I have it!</span></span></span></div>
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<b><u><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Also - Remember – all my answers are my own
opinions – whether presented as fact or opinion – they are mine and mine alone
and do not necessarily reflect those of TNT, Turner Networks, Dreamworks,
Steven Spielberg or any of the other writers, cast or crew on the show!</span></span></u></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So, thanks to her prompting, here are my answers to
your questions:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><o:p><span style="text-decoration: none;"> </span></o:p></span></u><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Michael Horne</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> said...</span></span></div>
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Absolutely love the show. Especially the walk-and-talks in-one scenes. I was
noticing in the last, say, 3-4 episodes of this season, that the pace was a
bit... uneven. Obviously, we're not expecting epic action sequences every week,
but were there some cuts/alterations for the later episodes to overcome
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Answer:</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the planning of the
season, TNT creates a specific per-episode, “pattern” budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also allow for a few episodes to be
“over-pattern” like our season openers and season closers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every once in awhile we get bit by a
surprise “over-pattern” episode in the middle.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writers and production team try to allow for this in the
conception of the show and create a couple of “under-pattern” shows to
compensate.<o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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under-pattern, to be simplistic, is to have less action and visual
effects.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last season, the least
expensive show of the year was episode 6, the one where Karen is discovered in
the woods with the dead de-harnessed kids.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think it’s one of our better episodes of the year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taught writing and character work
always trumps explosions and CGI (IMHO).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b>If you didn’t like
the later episodes, it wasn’t because we cut them late in the game – they were
designed that way. Maybe we just
didn’t design them well enough… <o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Tamara Tipton</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">So
many questions......but most of them would probably qualify as
"spoilers". I guess my questions would be: 1. Is it possible that we
might learn more about the past of our favorite characters (for me Pope, Ann,
& Maggie)?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
longer the shows on the air, the more we’ll have a chance to explore the
nuances of every character… So, keep watching!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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How closely do you watch and abide by the budget for the season? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We try hard.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But it’s not a perfect science.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But our line-producer Grace Gilroy (She’s the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>producer specifically in charge of the budget) is a
whiz.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some episodes go over, a few
under.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The key, from TNTs point of
view, is that we come out even in the end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Last year, miraculously, and largely due to Grace’s
cleverness – we did.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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IS being over budget why the last few episodes of season 2 seemed (to some of
us at least) not quite as smooth or well thought out as the 1st episodes? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I answered this above – although the fact that a few of you
feel this way makes me have to pull out the “sad-face” icon </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I
really do love Falling Skies. I just want MORE. More story, more detail, more
back story, and to be honest, more Pope. :)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll tell
Collin Cunningham – I’m sure he’ll agree!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span style="color: blue;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Oscar</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Hi,
love the show! This may already have been answered elsewhere but how long does
it take f<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>rom
start to finish to complete a season? With only 10 episodes I figure it could
not take as long <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>say
a 22 season show but it makes me wonder why we have to wait almost a year to
see the next <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>one</span>? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writers began in May 2011.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I came up to begin prep on September 1,
2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We stared shooting in mid
October 2011 and we were done Febuary 1 2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The editing and post-production was full steam ahead until
March 2012.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">So… For the
writers, shooting crew and editors it’s about 6 months (staggered because the
writers are ending just as post is getting going full-steam ahead.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the actors about 4 ½ months.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the producers who stay from
beginning to end about 10 or 11 months.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Peter
said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Hi,
first of all thanks to you and the whole Falling Skies-Team for another really
good season and for bloging about all the episodes. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">1. I
would like to know which directors we can expect for season 3, old and new. And
because you are also producing the show, does that mean you are always on set
and supervise the other directors? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I schedule in the summer and what
happens sometimes changes – as a few fallouts and additions sometimes happen in
progress – But, as currently planned:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I will be back directing, Sergio Gezzan from season1
is scheduled, Adam Kane will be back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Most of the others we wanted back, but because of scheduling conflicts
they weren’t available.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> 2.
This is a Smallville question: The show was released as a complete set on DVD
but unfortunately not on Blu-Ray. Do you remember on what season the production
team started to produce the effects shots in HD. I understand that some of the
earlier seasons not having the FX shots in HD is the main reason the show could
not be released on Blu-Ray. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve heard about this, but am not 100%
certain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HD didn’t really exist in
2001 when I started the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When
I left after season 5 we still weren’t doing HD.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they began in season 7 or 8 but I’m not sure.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><u style="text-underline: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">Steve</span></u><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Thanks
for making such a terrific show! My 15 and 13 year old sons and I can't wait
for the new season to begin next year. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> I
asked this on a previous blog post, but I'm hoping you can answer it here. My
question is about how you decide that a major character is to leave the show.
My 15 year old son gets really mad every time one dies. :) The cynical part of
me says people die off to save money for production. Is there anything to that?
Or does that happen to show anyone (except for maybe Tom) is fair game?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t make the decision for
financial reasons.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We try to do it
for the shock and impact.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But
sometimes, it’s a scheduling conflict.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the case of Jamil’s character, the actor (<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Brandon J. McLaren) </span>had a previously booked pilot that was in
first position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We didn’t think
he’d be available in season 3 and so the grim reaper (in the form of crawlies)
came to visit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">dawnmarie0301
said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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This can be construed as a blog, but questions lie within! Really! :-) </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OK <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">dawnmarie0301 – I’m going to cut and paste a bit…<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> I
had a marathon where I watched all of Season 1 (spent as little time sleeping
& working my daytime job as I could)(heh) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve heard of this happening…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just remember to drink plenty of fluids
and eat healthy snacks if this phenomenon occurs to you!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I
cannot WAIT until Season 3. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Good.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Now
to end this piece of my ramble and ask my QUESTIONS: I admit to a morbid
curiosity regarding harnessed/deharnessed kids. In Season 3, do you think there
will be even more background on the relationship between Skitters and their
harnessed kids, especially since there is now a relationship between rebel
Skitters & 2nd Mass? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It will probably take a new form, but
yes, the topic will be explored.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">It
would be interesting if the 2nd Mass asked questions of the rebel Skitters
regarding the mutation process. Im sure Tom in particular has burning questions
on what is going on with Ben, and Anne may have questions on alternate ways to
remove the harness (after all, the rebel Skitters came with other deharnessed
kids…how did they get their harnesses off?). <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, all valid points – which we’ve
tried to think about…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Also,
in Season 1, the harnessed kids were mostly zombies following the commands of
their Skitter. When Ben’s Skitter died, all of the kids went into shock &
they all would have died if the harnesses hadnt been removed. In Season 2, we
meet Jenny, who is creepy crawlie crusty but is surviving without her Skitter
aka Guardian. Is it because she is mutated enough to not need it? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, Jenny had, I believe, mutated
enough and she and her brother were actively searching for a new skitter to
re-attach to.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At least that’s what
we thought</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">And
since she seems to classify herself as anotherâ</span><span style="font-family: "Kaiti SC Black"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Kaiti SC Black"; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> instead of
human does that mean we have the potential of kids acting independent of their
Skitters as potential enemies? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes, I think once
the kids mutate enough – they evolve and become independent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they would probably still be in
psychic/radio communication with the skitters and overlords through whatever
network<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>is used by the invaders –
but, as I say this, remember I and we just make this up as we go along…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We try to think it through, but
sometimes old ideas don’t end up working out as stories evolve, and sometimes
new, better ones come along….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
reserve the right to have the collective “we” of the show’s creators take it in
a different direction later.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Is there a possibility of more deharnessed
kids becoming regulars as scouts etc. like Ben in Season 2? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>Sure…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I can’t spoil.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Will we get more history on the Berserkers
why is Crazy Lee called Crazy Lee, for example? <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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happen... But even if it's not "history" per se - we will explore more about Pope and the Beserkers<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Loyal Skitters with Red-Eye gone? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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for that.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Your blog has mentioned/had pictures of fans
that had won the right to come onset to watch an episode or (joy of joys) been
in an episode. Do you have any suggestions on where I can find these contests
to throw my name in the magic hat?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My sterling
Assistant, Ashley tells me you should check out: <a href="http://www.fallingskies.com/">www.fallingskies.com</a> </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Pete said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Hi, thanks for answering questions again! My
question is a little bit technical, if you don't mind. I saw on IMDB that
Falling Skies is one of a few shows left that is actually shooting on film and
not digitally. You as a producer and director where probably involved in making
that decision. Do you prefer to shoot on film and if so why? I really like the
show and it's look but the release of the first seaon on Blu-Ray was a little
bit uneven with crush, banding and macroblocking all being an issue, especially
in the first half of the season. I remember that Heroes which apparently used
the same cameras had similar "issues". Is it truly an issue or is it
just a result of the more gritty look that the show seems to be going for?
Thanks and keep up the great work!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Steven
Spielberg insisted on film in season 1.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Because SMALLVILLE (during my tenure) and HEROES shot on film, I had
never shot in any digital format.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In season 2 we switched to the Arri Alexa, our DP Nate Goodman, who I
worked with on HEROES convinced me it was the right tool, because of it’s
amazing ability to film in low light situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We ran tests that satisfied Mr. Spielberg and we made the
switch.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As for the blu-ray’s technical problems, that is outside my knowledge
bandwidth…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I consulted with
Scott Schofield who runs post production for us… and he said the following:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">1. The
problems this fan is talking about are not created by film, or<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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format on the master tapes. I watched the Blu-Ray of the<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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night and noticed some compression issues with the Blu-Ray<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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description. I only watched the pilot, so don't know<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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other issues are, but my guess is the compression on some<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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have been better on the Blu-Ray authoring by the studio,<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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in the dark areas. Compression doesn't handle detail in<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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we saw, are they accumulated from a bunch of planets conquered by the overlords
who turned out to look the same because of the arness metamorphose, or they are
all from the same planet?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve
definitely discussed this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
skitters, in our collective imagination, were from a planet of happy, peaceful<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>six-legged, two armed creatures – the
harness mutated them to have strength and armor-like skin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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and her brother were, but with great strength, agility and armor skin.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Kerns said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As
a biologist, I am hoping that there will be some sort of natural history for all
the different aliens <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>on
the show. Any chance of that happening? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This
could definitely happen in the right story-context… And we <i><u style="text-underline: blue;">might </u></i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>be introducing a character in season 3 who could be the right
person to accomplish this.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> David
F</span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Great fan of the show! What I think makes
this series truly unique is that we finally have aliens that act like aliens.
The audience has no more insite into their DNA, intent, actions than the cast
does...I love this about the show. My wife and I find ourselves talking about
this way after the credits roll. Can you expand on this? Is that intentional?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is
intentional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a key rule laid
out to us by Mr. Spielberg, who is very attentive to the way the aliens
function and behave within the series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span></b>
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">That the show is shown, exclusively, from our characters point of view,
that it’s happening in the “immediate present,” and that we, the audience, only
know as much as the characters is the way he and creator Bob Rodat designed the
show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writers and I try to
stay attentive to this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We did
break this rule in Season2 episode 1 when we had a “flashback” of Tom’s journey
to get back to the 2<sup>nd</sup> mass..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But even in that context, which was just a better storytelling technique
for that story… we had two concurrent timelines that held to the rules.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Z. said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I honestly can't wait for Season 3!!! </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">So
here's my question, and I do apologize if it has been asked or answered
before: When is <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Season
3 Coming out and can we expect new characters in it?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mid-June 2013 (I think) and yes…several new
characters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here’s some links as
to who they are:<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://screenrant.com/falling-skies-season-3-details-spoilers/">http://screenrant.com/falling-skies-season-3-details-spoilers/</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Thank's for being Awesome enough to answer our questions :D</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do it for love! (Of the fans!)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Alyssa
S said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Have
the writers envisioned the story to be wrapped up with an "ultimate
end" or has it purposely <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>been
left open ended so the story may lead where it may?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Bob
Rodat certainly conceived of an ultimate end and it was included in a
super-sercret show “Bible” that only a very few people got to see.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Having said that, while I think we were
working towards that in a general way – the addition of writers Graham Yost and
Mark Verhieden in Season 1 and Remi Aubachaun in Season 2 and now 3 – caused us
to drift away from the originally envisioned, ultimate end.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I suspect that Michael Wright, the
president of TNT drama has a version of the ultimate end he’d like to see…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>he’s mentioned ultimate end-ish
scenarios once or twice….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, I
guess the answer is, there are no probably several probable ultimate ends
possible from where we now stand.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We have them vaguely in mind – but they shift.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">anthony
pego said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Are you familiar with George Adamski, his stories, or any other
"witness" to extraterrestrial contact, and from which sources do you
favor pulling inspiration? Anything from your personal experience or childhood
imagination you'd like to mention, as far as writing is concerned?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not
familiar with this author… but will look him up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As for my personal experiences or childhood imagination… I
benefit immensely from having been the “weird” kid in school who was always off
playing by himself, living in my mind in a host of imaginary situations.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think most of the creative types in
the film and TV world were the nerdy oddballs in school.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That I get to imagine professionally now
makes me quite blessed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Anonymous
said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Big fan of the show and thank you for
answering questions. 1. Why do you have to wait so long between seasons even
though the seasons do not have as many episodes as some other shows. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Simply put this
is TNT’s business model.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They want
the show to run in the summer and 10 episodes is the number that makes sense to
them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s possible we could do a
handful of more episodes in upcoming seasons, but not a lot more.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I don’t understand it all, frankly…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I answered above, I come from the nerdy-imaginative clan
and the doings of the business-decision clan are sometimes beyond me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">2. Is season 3 planned to be the final
season or will is it planned to continue into season 4?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We want to do
more and plan to do more seassons…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as
long as there is a strong audience for FALLING SKIES we will.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, keep watching<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Blair said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I'm a little too excited about this opportunity to ask questions, so
it's quite likely I'll be back and forth on here. Falling Skies was a show I
fell in love with instantly. The idea that something on such a huge scale with
such solid production values was going to be a television series caught my
attention indefinitely. Every week, my mind was blown by the scale of the
series and the depth and development behind the aliens and their technology, as
well as the plight of the second mass. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yay!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You
made my day.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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"Oh GOD HOW LONG DO I HAVE TO WAIT" However. Let's do this. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah… that’s how we roll.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We <u style="text-underline: blue;">want</u> you to want to
come back.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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pun. I am not) was pretty heart-breaking, because he's survived so much and
he's always been there and been on the right side of the fight and such. Loyal
and a good soldier. With the nature of the show being based on a war, making
death an inevitability, is it hard going into a show knowing that you won't be
working with some of the characters or the actors for the entire duration? (I
just really like Dai, okay.) Then, how do you actually deal with it on set,
knowing that someone who's always been there is now going to move on and be
(hopefully) working on other projects elsewhere? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The writers are always looking for the shocking
moments, and, as you say – this is war where any life can be taken and we want
the show to feel real.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We want to
avoid the STAR TREK “red shirt” phenomenon, where characters are introduced
just to be killed off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">On set, lurking in the background of
the actors mind, is – I think – a knowledge that they could go at any time (like in
real war.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes they joke
about it, mostly they don’t think about it and just do their job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Like in real war.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">But, of course, unlike in war, a script
comes out a week or two in advance letting someone know that they’re not going
to make it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For some reason, over
the years, it has fallen to me to be the one who pulls them aside and lets them
know what’s what before the script comes out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first person I ever told he was going to die was Eric
Johnson, who played Lana’s boyfriend Whitney in Season 1 of SMALLVILLE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was very distraught about this task
and I took him out to dinner and broke it slowly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Eric was sad, but a smart guy and he has seen it coming –
because Clark and Lana’s story couldn’t really progress with his character in
the way…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since that time I’ve let
at least a dozen or more actors know they aren’t gonna make it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Over time I’ve become more clinical
about it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In general, actors take
it well and know that imaginary-character-death is part of the imaginary life
of being on TV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">I believe I’m generally well liked
amongst the cast but they must also see me as an “angel of death.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve heard some jokes about not going
alone into Beeman’s office.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In the case of Peter Shinkoda, he was
(and is) an extremely well liked member of the cast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pulled him aside on set and told him one night, just
before the episodes 10 script went to the cast.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took it well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He asked a few questions about how he was going to die, and so on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then he went back and told the
others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were hugs and
handshakes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The shooting was very
smooth and Peter, as always, did his best job professionally all along.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we were finished with Peter in the
episode there was a huge cast and crew standing ovation – and I believe a
number of after wrap farewell parties occurred.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter, I know, is still in touch with many other members of
the cast and crew<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">2. I don't know if you can answer this, but Season 2 started after a
'break' in the Falling Skies!verse timeline. Like, time had passed from Tom
hopping on board the ship to Pope and everyone in the city with the attack. Is
season 3 going to start immediately from the point season 2 <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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like Tom remembering his torture. I now realize this question is probably
spoilery, so feel free to pass on it if you can't answer. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yep.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s
too spoilery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s like Christmas
– you <u style="text-underline: blue;">think</u> you want to know what’s in the
present <u style="text-underline: blue;">now </u>– but, really, it’s better to
wait.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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there any chance you'll be releasing any of the footage of all the assistants
and crew acting out the skitter battle, because it sounds absolutely
fascinating, hilarious, and wonderful. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve let the TNT post people know about it’s
existence – it would probably need some commentary to play as a
behind-the-scenes element…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I agree
it would be fun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But whether it
happens or not is out of my control.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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over for now. Undoubtedly, <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I'll
be back.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The
Regenerate Degenerate said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Hey, just one question. Why aren't the fighters riding horses yet? Tell
me it wouldn't be a logical and totally badass method of fighting aliens. Also
it would create imagery that would play to the revolutionary war motif that's
woven through the story. It's just a thought I've had since I started watching
season one.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Okay.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Great idea!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll mention it
to Remi! Maybe we'll see horses in Season 3 as gas and diesel get harder to find and/or make.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">The
Regenerate Degenerate said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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stockton said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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one problem tho. we have to wait for months for the next season . are u insane
to put us thru that. we waited 10 months for the second season and we have to
do it again. i know you guys are trying to drag it out, but give us a break.
this is rediculous. we are fans not patient fans. hurry it up people.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah, I
know… Sorry…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I answered above
about TNT’s business model and all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I <u style="text-underline: blue;">am</u> insane, but not because I want
to put you through torture.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Sanchez said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">I absolutely love Falling Skies! Its the best. Questions: Are the
harnessed kids turning mutant? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was answered in
more detail above.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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answer that would be to spoil – but Ben has an important role as the liason to
the skitters – so…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> I cant really think of anything else right now, but very clever what
happened to Hal; but still hoping he and Maggie settle down. Karen turned super
creepy. I cant wait for season three.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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stockton said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span>Okay, whew…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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</span>If they come back it will have to be as re-animated zombies or holo-projections,
or ghosts…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>None of which is really
the tone of our show – but…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll
see what I can do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Love Falling Skies, but severely disappointed
in the boring, clicheed "surprise" pregnancy. The whole Tom/Anne
thing is unrealistic and annoying for many reasons and this soap opera mess is
far beneath the fine FS writers! I hope Season 3 will find her losing the baby.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>We’ll do our best to surprise you.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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found his wife murdered by alien invaders is simpering and giggling with
another woman just a few months later? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I don’t know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Life is
intense and life in wartime is very intense…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think it’s easy to just assume that <u style="text-underline: blue;">any</u>body <u>would</u> or <u>would not</u> definitely do something…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this case, we’ve tried to make it
clear that both Tom and Anne really loved their spouses and that they entered
into the relationship slowly and cautiously and respectful of each others past.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IMHO we’ve tried to avoid simpering and giggling – but I
guess that’s in the eye of the beholder.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Hickman (adimike55) said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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"feeling" (season one was a defensive position set primarily in one
place, season two was nomadic and as it was called, almost a "death
march") will Season Three have it's own feel or style to it?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t say too much, but – short
answer – “yes”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will be<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>shifting the situation and storytelling
a bit once again </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Also, through the first two season, the civilian population has been
relatively passive, except for a couple of instances where one civilian
questioned what was going on in the first season. Adding in the civilians
living underground in Charleston, will there be seeds of unrest coming out of
these so far passive people? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer: <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The idea of building a society creating conflict being
inevitable as the result of internal political and personal struggles is something
we’ve definitely discussed.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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remove popular characters and elements for an episode or two to advance the
story. It was very brave to not have Ben in two whole episodes, since he has
become the defacto heartthrob star of the show. The same goes for whole
episodes without aliens, which helps to make the scenes WITH aliens that much
more powerful.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I had mentioned last year how much I
love the original music and the song cues (Dude, using Debussey CLAIR DE LUNE
palyed on guitar was wonderful), any word on a commercial release of some of
this?</span><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As I think I mentioned in a previous blog – this was
originally editor Donn Aronn’s idea.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He is great with music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mr.
Spielberg loved it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We actually
recorded our own version – but in the end we went with an existing piece.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">It is commercially available – and
Scott Schofield in post tells me that it’s the <o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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"A Touch of Class" </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">version.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Finally, with all the losses to the 2nd Mass, can we expect a ZOMBIE 2ND
MASS to rise from the dead anytime soon :) ?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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chose earth and humans? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I can’t spoil,
but the we will definitely begin to reveal this answer in season 3.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Ronnie, Texas
said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">In the finale the new alien's armor reminded me a lot of the comic book
superhero, Blue Beetle. Was that intentional, are anyone who works on the show
comic book geeks or was that meerly a coincidence? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That was not
intentional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The suit and alien
were both designed by Aaron Simms<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>and final approval was made, as always, by Mr. Spielberg.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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that the design continued to evolve throughout post production, there was one
version that even had a high-tech cape. The shoulder pieces that loom up were, in fact, a late addition to the design.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Kamil M said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Hi, Fan of the show bigtime, Just wondering whether the introduction of
the new alien race/species will ruin one of the themes of the show? One of the
reasons I enjoyed this show, was that it its unique way, was a survival sci-fi
series, similar to that of The Walking Dead. The Walking Dead is all about a
'realistic' post-apocalypse, and that theme was also what Falling Skies started
with. My actual question would be, With the introduction of the new alien,
does this draw away too much from the 'realistic' post-apocalyptic world of an
alien invasion? Already there is the skitter aliens, along the with Fish Heads,
is it too much to bring in a new alien? I believe it seems that the show is now
focused on the aliens too much, rather than the 2nd mass and its 'realistic'
survival.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You bring up a good point.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Internally we have a lot of different,
very creative people, who are always trying to both push the show in new
directions and keep it on the course of what it is meant to be... We try to succeed in that balance more than fail...</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Kerstin
said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">No hate here.. Only love! First I want to
say thank you for making a show that parents can watch with their kids! We
don't have to edit sex scenes, talk and all the rest. I love this show for
this, and the who aliens vs humans because I'm a geek. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> Unfortunately every question I'd love to ask
is more a spoiler then anything. But the following are my askable
questions: 1. Is it possible to get more then 10 episodes a season? I realize
SyFy doesn't have the money of ABC but they really have a massive hit on their
hands and a devout following. And I do appreciate that SyFy has renewed the
show and not pulled an ABC and turfed a great show to the curb after 10 or 20
episodes because it's not a Grey's Anatomy. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s possible –
maybe 12 or 13 in future seasons…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But I don’t know and can’t say for sure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve already answered this question to the best of my
ability above.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> 2. When you
post fun extra videos and trailers we can't see them here in Canada and only
Super Channel (a paid extra channel) carries the show, so can't we at least
have access to the online content as they certainly aren't promoting the show.
It would be better if Space carried it. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think Space
just did make a deal to carry the series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Top-notch assistant Ashley looked into this for all you Canadians and
here’s what she found out</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">:<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Falling Skies will be premiering on Space
Channel in Canada, October 8<sup>th</sup>, 2012. Check out more information at
this link <a href="http://www.spacecast.com/FallingSkies.aspx">http://www.spacecast.com/FallingSkies.aspx</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">As a fellow Canadian, I’m very excited </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Wingdings; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-char-type: symbol; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;"><span style="mso-char-type: symbol; mso-symbol-font-family: Wingdings;">J</span></span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> 3. Will we learn what the red eyed skitter
said to Ben to make him stay with his family? And will he continue to change or
is there hope he'll remain 'human'. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, I don’t
think so…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have to use your
heart and guess as best you can.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>IMHO it was about Tom carrying on the good fight and not forgetting the
importance of his loved ones.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> 4. Is there more to Maggie's past? Pope made
it out to be such a huge deal.. but in the end it was much more tame then I was
expecting. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There may be
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And we may dig into it
more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ll see.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">The rest you can't answer. Thanks for taking
our questions! <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You bet!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">I was really positively surprised to see season 1 focus on relationships
between family members, friends and soldiers. It was very refreshing and a
change from all the soap-operesque "drama" shows lately. (I'm looking
at you, TWD.)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">With that in mind, season 2 was a slight disappointment, as the romantic
relationships were moved to a much higher priority - frankly, if I want to see
that, I don't watch a show about an alien invasion; I watch a soap.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Now, the worst case scenario came into play: a pregnancy, possibly the
most ridicolous and overused "shocking twist" in the entire genre. I'm
in touch with many fans and really everyone rolled their eyes about that.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Oh.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sorry to disappoint – we’ve got plans to make the best of it
and surprise though.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;">So I guess
my questions are... <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> 1. Is there any chance the pregnancy will not be a major topic? ANY? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Wait and see!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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romantically involved? Such as Crazy Lee and Lyle and their reasons to side
with Pope?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sure… </span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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deals with the end of the world. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Mpho is a great actor, who is does excellent work for us wether his role in an episode is big or small... </span>We plan for Anthony to take on an
important role in Season 3, as a matter of fact.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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become a Tank Girl? Because, y'know, that would be really really awesome.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Uh…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll bring it up – but I’d categorize that as “unlikely.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Awesome show please dont
end it..... <o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ll do my part.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Only 1 thing the show wasn't clear on is the differences in strength
between Karen Nadler, Ben Mason, and Rick(Daniyah).. They were all at one point
harnessed. Karen seems to have SUPER DUPER strength while Rick has a bit less
but can still climb on walls and such, and Ben has the least of the 3 or so it
seems. Does Karen posses more strength because she is STILL harnessed? Or is it
that Ben hasn't yet fully tapped into his potential?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Rick and Ben and were harnessed by
skitters and Rick was harnessed longer than Ben. By far most harnessed kids
serve skitters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karen was
harnessed directly by the overlords – and she served an overlord directly,
which is rare.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Karen is also
still harnessed and therefore her dual role as being still harnessed and
serving the overlords directly gives her more powers and more potential than
Ben and Rick.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But Ben and Rick <u style="text-underline: blue;">are</u> much more powerful, alert and connected to
the skitters and overlords than anyone else, because some parts of the harness remain
in their spine after their surgical “de-harnessing.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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gonna be any blacklash from Tom's son over Anne having a baby.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Cloud said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Again, not my department, but I’d
guess “probably not”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Director’s cuts
in episodic TV are not common.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
bet there will be loads of other extras though!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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affects, and why not a real series of more than ten episodes.. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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above…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></b></div>
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lacking in special effects…” I can only reply, “Really?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I mean we ARE a TV show, working on a
comparitive shoestring budget.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
opening episode of the season and the finale had A LOT of special effects
shots!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the overlord’s
spaceship competes well with many feature films… as does the concluding battle
between red-eye and the overlord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Sure we can’t do it at that level every episode, but when we can, I
think we do well.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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you’re not happy you’re not happy.</span></span></b></div>
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going too far into soap operas. Pregnancy is done on every show and getting
old. Making everyone have a boyfriend/girlfriend...when is there even time for
that? They're trying to survive. Hope you're not planning to give Ben a
girlfriend. His character is a loner and should be.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To me, the thing that makes our show
special is that we explore character and personal stories in the midst of the
big picture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How does one hold on
to one humanity – i.e. family, love, group dynamics – in the midst of
unforeseen chaos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe even Ben
could find a kindred spirit in all of this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But we’ll see.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>OK.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Did we have a dead dog?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Why am I forgetting this?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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obsessed with Falling Skies (and Connor Jessup) Sadly none of my friends are
fans of the show ( yet , im working on it) </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I visited
Ireland about 6 years ago.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is
one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> I am very excited about season 3 but
quite annoyed about it being 10 months away. <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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only episodes in the seasons.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve covered
this above.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Question: In the first season the 2nd Mass
were all about saving harnessed kids and unharnessing them but in season 2 the
2nd Mass' focus changed to fighting the ailens. In the third season will they
begin to unharness kids once again. I had thought that in the second season
they would have had more of a drive to unharness kids because anne figured out
a safe way of unharnessing kids?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, we, the
creators of the show, feel we have to keep moving forward with new angles and
new storylines…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We will address
the de-harnessing of kids more deeply in season 3 though – but not exclusively.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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and hopefully to reply x (also if you happen to see connor jessup can you tell
him an Irish girl named Roisin Is his biggest fan hahahhaa) <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told him
today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He said “Thank you”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also told him to go to Ireland.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Pritchard said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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how awful the totally expected pregnancy is. I was a huge fan but currently not
planning to watch Season 3 because of how angry I felt at having that plot turd
thrown at me. From talking to fans all over, it seems to be a large number of
us who feel the same. I'll read reviews online next year and hope Anne
miscarries or dies to see if it's safe to watch again.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ouch.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A bit harsh – but I see a recurring anti-pregnancy
thread here…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noted.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">I loved the first season and most of the
second, but grew bored very quickly with how the writers were catering to the
lowest common denominators: the squealing fangirl and the dissatisfied
middle-aged housewife. Romance is fine in small doses but very quickly threw
Falling Skies offtrack.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, those are
the parts others love that best about the show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our trick, creatively, is to service all of our board fan
base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think I personally feel
that if I’m happy with what we’re doing, then we’re probably on track.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I’m not (and for sure there are
times when I’m not) then we probably aren’t…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But, for sure, there is a BIG pile of people who love and
hate different things out there.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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focus was his family. How did he lose track of that and does he even remember
that he had a wife who was killed less than a year earlier? Please scrub the
whole Anne/Tom fiasco and go back to what made us watch FS in the first place:
action, survival, and the strong Mason family dynamic.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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we will not lose the action, survival and Mason family dynamic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>IMHO there was more of it in season 2
than in season 1…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But that’s just
me.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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fantastic second season, and cheers to an even better third season to come.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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emoticon for blushing)</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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twist? I don't think we got to know Boon well enough...</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well, in the
directors office we put up pictures of the main cast…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right now there are 24 pictures…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That’s A LOT of stories to service…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>True Boon was cool, and he had his
moment in the sun…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But alas, alas…<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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O'Connor said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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answers: 1) Some of the fighters are using submachineguns and other *very*
small arms against big critters. With access to the arsenal in Charleston, will
the 2nd Mass upgun a bit?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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than a year from the invasion (at least according to Tom's speech in season 2
episode 9). Can we expect to see some decay added to the destruction (I'm
thinking along the lines of Life Without People)?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Production designer Rob Gray and I
definitely talk about that and want to do it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s harder and more expsnsive than it sounds though on our
tight budget and schedule.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Still,
we’ll try our best!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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the badguys stopped using nukes and massive airstrikes in season 2?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(adimike55) said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">I'll go in a different direction. I've trusted the show runners and
writers to reward my viewing with a storyline that surprises and isn't always
what it seems. So far, they done that amazingly well. You may be able to guess
how something will turn out but you won't be able to guess everything.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well put.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Their ability to work in a situation but not make it ordinary or cliched
has been great. So, as to the pregnancy, I don't understand the uproar? If
you've been a fan of the show, you know that this is NOT basic storytelling,
but very informed screenwriting, touching on sci-fi, histort, human emotions,
war, and other topics that you don't always see so intelligently blended like
Falling Skies has done.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks, that’s what <u style="text-underline: blue;">I’ve </u><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>been trying to say.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">So, while the pregnancy on the surface seems like an intrusion, I would
venture this is NOT turning into a domestic comedy. Trust the writers to know
what to do with the story lines and how to make them work in a way that you
probably are not expecting.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks Adrian Hickman!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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kicking guest stars lined up for next season, I'm very excited! So has filming
begun with Mr. Robert Sean Leonard and Ms. Gloria Reuben yet? I know they both
worked with Noah before so absolutely can't wait for the epic reunion! :D</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes we have
begun filming with Gloria and Robert.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They are delightful, and their roles within the series are opening up new angles for storytelling.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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characters affect the dynamics within 2nd Mass? Will their stint have a
significant influence on where the story goes in season 3 and beyond?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are trying to use their characters
in significant ways…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But beyond
that, I can not reveal.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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in my opinion) ever!!!</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks for the kind opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The answer is one step at a time – slow
hard work, carefully done and always with the fans in mind!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Adam said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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"Last Resort", do you have an option on her for any episodes next
season? I know on "Justified", Graham Yost came to an arrangement
where they get Natalie Zea for at least three episodes every season. I hope
"Falling Skies" has a similar arrangement with Schram.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have worked out a deal with ABC to use Jessy a bit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond that I cannot reveal.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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"Perception". How does being a producing director like you are on
"Falling Skies" compare to stepping in as a guest director on someone
else's show like you did with "Perception"?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">For many years, when I first started
directing television, I was always, only, a “visiting director.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a great and fun career
path.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I liked about it
was that, first of all, things happen quickly – My agent would call me up and
say “Would you like to do a WONDER YEARS?”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’d say… “Sure.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And he’d say “Good.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Go in
an meet the producers, and if you don’t !*&% up the meeting, you start
Tuesday.”<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Previously to that I had been
languishing in the world of feature films, I had been full time on two projects
in a row where I had spent 9 months of my life (18 months total) on projects
where the plug got pulled at the last minute and they didn’t happen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">As soon as I started doing TV, I loved
it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like I said it <u style="text-underline: blue;">hapened</u>.... unlike movies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And the pace and energy of it suited my
tempermamnt better than features had.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, I travelled around as a visiting director for many years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I loved it because it was an amazing
opportunity to quickly cycle through lots of genres and filmmaking styles.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>WONDER YEARS, JAG and BRISCO COUNTY
JUNIOR were all really different and I had to adapt my style to fit them –
which was really fun and learned fast.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">After awhile though, I grew weary of
it, because as the visiting director I had only so much control…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t hiring the main cast, I wasn’t
picking the key locations or designing the key sets the way I would have on
features.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Back in the early 90’s THE X-FILES was
one of the first TV series that began to use a director in a permamnant
director-producer role.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I
set my sights on that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The first
gig which I was the producer-director on, was<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the late 90’s CBS Don Johnson series NASH BRIDGES…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a 1000% crazy show and I learned
more than ever before.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I met, what
became lifelong friends Carlton Cuse and writer John Wirth (who had previously hired with
me on the just-mentioned BRISCO COUNTY JR.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>John Wirth has now come aboard FALLING SKIES in season 3 and
the re-uniting is fantastic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>People are also surprised when I say that I learned more from Don
Johnson than any other person I’ve ever worked with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He is an incredibly smart man, a strong film-maker and he
really opened me up in terms of performance direction and also in realizing how
“big” TV could be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He had touched
the highest level of TV greatness on MIAMI VICE, and knew what a huge influence
one show could be to the entire culture.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I tried as hard as I could to learn from him every day.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was also quite tough on me and the
crew and on the scripts – and this toughness made me tougher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’ve said many times that – for the
rest of my life – after NASH BRIDGES, nothing will ever be hard again.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Anyway – that was all a long-way-round
introduction to say that the role of poducer-director suits me…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But would not be for everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It has the best aspects of feature
directing – I AM involved in casting, locations, set design, I create the
“look” and the on set technique of how we achieve that look.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am hands on involved in the shooting
scheduling and am fortunate to be allowed by the writers to be involved in many
big picture story decisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am
very involved in deciding how we distribute our limited budget to the various
departments and usually have to decide what cuts to make and what to keep on
budget-crunch day….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also, of
course, give hands-on supervision to all of the visiting directors to this show…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it’s a great job.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s also very INTENSE.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Especially on big shows like
SMALLVILLE, HEROES and FALLING SKIES.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It’s like having hundreds of bowling balls, baseballs and golf balls
shot at your head every day….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There are non-stop problems to solve from the time I wake up ‘til the
time I pass out asleep in bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some are crisis level problems.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Some are straight-up pain-in-the-butt problems I’d rather avoid but
can’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What I love about the job
is that I literally never know what I’ll be doing or where I’ll be doing
it…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I love it, but it’s not for the faint of heart.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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a very brilliantly conceived series by my old friend and SMALLVILLE alum Ken
Biller – I have to remember to relax and focus only on what are the immediate
needs – i.e. making that ONE episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The episode director is in the unique position of only thinking about
THAT episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Everyone else on the
series is consumed by sometimes a dozen other episodes at various stages.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In some ways, it is very
relaxing – all I have to focus on is that one episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I also have to remember that I am
now there to serve that show’s creator and network and I may need to subvert my
style to the style of that series.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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different things in this one lifetime.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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help but wonder, how does all this input from the fans effect the show? Between
this blog, the official Falling Skies site, Facebook page, twitter, and lord
knows what else, it seems like a lot to process. So, how important are our
opinions to the direction of the show (if mine matters at all, I want more
Pope, please)? At what point do you say "these people are just nuts
(except that nice lady who wants more Pope) and get back to work? I want to
believe that my thoughts might in some small way influence a show that i really
love, but does it? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another good question…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think some producers read blogs and
review pages and fan sites more than others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think the real answer is that we producers do become aware
of the fan’s opinions, but in more of a statistical way.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And remember, on this show, the
episodes are finished months before they air – so there is nothing really to do
about it, until we have a chance to react the next year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Way back in 2001 on season one of
SMALLVILLE - I got super into fan reaction…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was new to me (as was the internet in general.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But what I eventually realized
was that for every opinion there was almost always an equal and opposite
reaction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For everyone who HATED
Lana, someone else LOVED her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>There were times when the fans were united in loving or hating something
and there were clear majority opinions that we had made a mistake (or that we
were doing something right and should keep doing it)<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">In 2012, I am more experienced, and the
answer for me personally breaks down like this:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have learned that I must trust MY OWN opinions and gut
feelings first and foremost – if I lose that I’m doomed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Secondly I trust the opinions of my
fellow collaborators wether they be the writers or the crew down to the craft
service gal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I have to filter
them through my gut check – I have also gotten into trouble strongly advocating
a position that, upon reflection, I realize was really not my own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I also have to listen to the desires of
the people who pay for the show and have hired me – i.e. Steven Spielberg and
TNT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is possible to argue with
them if I really feel they are wrong – but, truthfully, and in all earnstness,
they are both amazing employers who trust us. And their opinions are always very
reasoned and well-though-out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
finally, I DO listen to the fans – but as I said, more so when it is a clear, widely-held opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I take
in all the feedback I hear, but I definitely run it through my own gut
check.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If not I and we would end
up chasing our tails.</span></span></b></div>
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add more Pope next year!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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show!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in your previous episode blog entries as comments, and hope you can get to them
as well, but no problem if you don't. Here are some new questions. I may have
to split up this post to accommodate the HTML character-limit restrictions.
Thanks very much for taking the time to provide your viewers this forum! 1.
How do you personally relate to this, or similar end of the world
scenarios? *In terms of constantly having to live on the edge of survival, what
would you personally do differently than that which has been presented in the
story so far?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>one should probably work to build community with their
neighbors, relatives, church-members, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That all just makes common sense in case of natural
disasters and so on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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undprepared…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’m not worried
about an impending alien invasion or societal collapse, if that’s what you
mean.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">*In the past two seasons, what have you learned of practical and moral
value about surviving an apocalyptic event that you would find critically
useful to your and your loved ones survival, that you would implement or pass
on should such an event take place?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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take the time to prepare at the level your describing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe this off-season</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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how to personally deal with such a situation?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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storytelling devise.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I haven’t
taken, personally, advantage of what FALLING SKIES teaches about survivalism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I should.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I feel pretty good about things…
Except how much sleep I get.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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humanity might be destroyed, subjugated, or irreversibly changed by an
encounter with extraterrestrials?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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could relate, or is it mostly just business as usual for everyone?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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be a sensitive subject, as does the quantity and race of the various characters
that have gotten killed off in the show so far. Besides the network (TNT) and
censors, who in the production/creative staff ultimately has the last word on
deciding how far to go when exploring relevant, yet sensitive issues that could
be presented on the show?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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or story detail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes they’ll
veto an idea they really don’t like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>So, all those decisions are made by the writers and other creators…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes things like “who dies”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>are driven by either contact or situation – i.e. someone’s
contract's up and they have another show to go onto in which case we have to
“kill them”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Otherwise it is ONLY
story that drives this and the desire to keep the show off-balance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We killed Jimmy for instance because of
the way we wanted it to affect both Ben and Weaver’s story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boon was killed to show how malicious
Karen had become – we picked him, probably, because he was the last-introduced
of Pope’s Bererkers, so last in, first out…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could have been another Berserker probably –
but we also wanted it to affect Tector who we knew was a character with a big
role coming up in the next episode.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>When Rick died it was mostly because we felt he’d served all the story
purpose he could and we wanted him for one last hurrah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, Daniyah<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>lives in Toronto and, since we didn’t have a series contract
with him it wasn’t possible to fly him cross-coast all the time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brandon J. McLaren, as I mentioned, had
a pilot which he had a previous commitment to go to….<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We were worried that if the pilot got picked up (which it
did) he wouldn’t be available in Season 3.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Etc…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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mundane of contracts and cross-continental flights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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which a cast member reacted to his or her part being so totally different to
how they actually perceive themselves? That is, when compared to who they
portray in Falling Skies, were there any memorable times when anyone's
reactions were like, Geez, why did my character just say/do that?!</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>And on some shows the actors are more prone to knee-jerk “I’d never say
that” reactions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our cast, lead by
Noah Wyle’s good influence, always comes from a place of trying to make the
words work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But both Remi’s and my
door and cellphone are always open for the cast to call with issues big and
small.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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script, where with myself the writer and the director present, the cast reads
the script out loud around a table.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>That is usually a day or so before we shoot and it can become a forum
for discussion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With all this in
place by the time we go to shoot the cast is usually good
with what we’re doing.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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do you believe in the existence of the following intelligent human-like life
forms: Vampires Extraterrestrials Zombies Cannibals Werewolves Superman-type
super ability beings Witches and Warlocks that can cast magical spells <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have no numerical answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think about or expect any of
those entities to appear or to have any influence on my life any time
soon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I’ve also seen enough to
not rule out anything in this crazy mixed-up world.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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projects?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I come from the fantasy, imagination
fanboy world, where – in my head and in the comic books I read and movies I
watch ANYthing is possible…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I
never expect it to in my real life<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"> *How do you feel about taking on a project about something you may not
personally believe in, even if its presentation might well induce others to
possibly believing in such things?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try never to work on things I find
morally offensive.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Otherwise I assume the audience has an
unspoken agreement with the filmmakers that it’s all just good clean fun and
not something to take too seriously.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">*In relation to your current project, Falling Skies, where do you draw
the line about what sort of stuff, as above, is allowable?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ditto<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">*Is the presentation of harnessed children the closest this production
will go towards portraying zombie-like characters?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t think they are zombie like
characters – they are mind slaves.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">*Were zombie-like characters an intentional idea to get a certain viewer
segment to watch this series?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nope.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pilot of this series was written and shot well in
advance of other notable zombie shows currently on TV.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Plus, I don’t think any of us thought
that zombie-like characters <u style="text-underline: blue;">are</u> a draw.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The reason they walk kind of zombie
like is because when I was first beginning to direct them, there’s a limited
number of was to portray mind slaves – we actually tested a few different "harnessed walks" on
camera – and this is what we came up with.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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participate as background extras, say for example when they are included in a
large group of about three hundred like those that were present at Jimmy's
funeral? (Season 2, Episode 3, Compass)</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are deals in place with the Unions we work with both
in Canada (and similar ones in the USA) that a certain number of higher-paid union extras are
mandatory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After that, lesser paid
non-union actors are allowed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Extras get more if they do a featured activity and in Canada there is
another category if they do things like fire guns or drive cars that is less
than a stunt man but more than a union extra.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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sure that ALL of our extras are well treated and thanked and encouraged for all
they add to our show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And, I
believe, we have a very happy group of extras on FALLING SKIES.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, every one of them requested to
come back and work again in Season 3.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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metaphorically draw parallels between the cooperative-to-inimical spectrum of
relations between the different fictional races/types of alien
extraterrestrials on one hand, and the similar issues and challenges that
actually exist between the different races/ethnicities here on our planet?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not at all.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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or spin-offs will have any affect on changing the existing story and plot as
currently envisioned by the producers and accepted by the network?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Partly because there are no plans as such.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they came up – some interface might
be necessary.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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sorts of thought provoking questions from the viewers of this show. If that is
to be the case, (and given that Falling Skies will continue to be told from the
characters point-of-view), what do creative and production staff face when
trying to strike a balance between concretely answering questions to satisfy
viewers needs for closure, and the possibility of leaving major story-lines and
the story itself, open-ended (in order to elicit viewers questions/speculation
as Remy stated)?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a tricky question, and not to short-change your answer, but
that, to me is the essence of what writer’s do.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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being told in Falling Skies intends to thematically explore the possibility of
humanity being faced with life-altering changes that may not allow the
survivors to go back to the way they once were, and how they handle those
issues as groups and individually. Given that, what other TV shows, motion
pictures or books do you guys look to as inspiration for setting such high
standards of both cinematic and thematic quality, that you and your fellow
producers/writers strive to approach or emulate? Or is this virgin territory,
do you guys feel that you have a groundbreaking phenomenon here?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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this particular story genre </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-family: Calibri;">(including much of the work of our boss, Steven Spielberg) </span></b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">that it’s impossible to be truly unique What we are trying to do is create a great “version” of this
oft-told tale.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> </span></b></span></div>
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of Gold and Lead” and “The Pool of Fire.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Books I loved as a boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s
been developed for years as a feature – maybe it could be a TV show.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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did the whole story have to be revealed to them? That is, is there an
“endingâ€</span><span style="font-family: "Kaiti SC Black"; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Kaiti SC Black"; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"> that already had to be approved by TNT
so they would green-light this series? </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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about the general direction of the series.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I wasn’t there but I understand both Robert Rodat and Steven
pitched this idea to TNT.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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forum organized by topic and seasons/episodes, to replace the existing
scrolling one?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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may just go tsunami on us.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></div>
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there are several Russian immigrants to Canada who work on the show.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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to finish the season on intriguing moment?" Because if it was closed
series fans would be left with the "nose".<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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expression) so that you would come back next year.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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best experiences of my life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m
loving, also, making Season 3 – but I think I always forget how intense and
overwhelming the show is to make until I’m actually making it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Maggie how about a happy ending for these two!?thanks!!!)))</span>)<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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SKIES never lasts for long.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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many times (mostly London)!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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invasion somehow reaching the 2nd Mass and having the opposite view to Tom
mason about the Revolutionary War? This could be worked into the struggle
against the aliens and the Brit could allude to the struggle against the nazis
by Britain in 1939-1940 before the US became involved. You could have some
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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the entire Falling Skies team. Two fantastic seasons down, and hopefully many
more to come! </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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first: What exactly is going on between (or went on between) Maggie and Pope.
He seems to know quite a lot about her...when no one else really does.
According to what she told the captured 2nd Mass team, she was only with him
and his gang for three months...and it took Hal a heck of a lot longer to get
close with her. So what is their deal? If you can't answer specifically, can
you at least say whether or not we will learn more about them in future
seasons?</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is
definitely something goin’ on there.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Graham Yost created both of these characters in Season 1…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He may know more than he’s told
us…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Maybe I’ll call him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(But I won’t be able to say what he
said cuz it’d spoil.)</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">And second: this may be a bit morbid...but
how come the 2nd Mass never comes across any dead bodies. If most of
civilization was wiped out...where'd they all go? The houses and buildings are
empty, the cars are empty...whenever the 2nd Mass is scouting anything, they
never come across anyone who as died. This just seems a bit odd.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We tried to
create technical rules to explain this…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I’m not sure how well we did.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Short answer, it would add a major expesnse of dead extras laying around
or prosthetic bodies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also,
certain of the powers that be find this idea distasteful – since the essence of
our show is the hope and strength of the human spirit.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">And just an added side note...I hope we get
to see more back story on our characters. The character development definitely
stepped it up a notch in season 2, but I'd love to see more about who they were
before. It just gives us that much more of a chance to see how far they've
come!</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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best.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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Can't wait until season 3!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is a FAVORITE show of mine and the season seems to be over as soon as it
started.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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addicted to the show, love the characters, even the Skitters, so please don't
take this wrong, but i'm with the ones who don't like tom and anne or the baby
idea. Babies on a show are never interesting, especially since there's no way
to feed or keep them quiet. Please leave that and go on to the characters and
action!</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Got it!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dang as soon as I’m done typing I’m
calling Remi and making sure we start kicking ass on that Anne pregnancy
storyline!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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Degenerate said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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pretty good photographer. Check it out. http://johnsturdy.com</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But I don’t hire set photographers –
they come from TNT.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I’m sure your
work is great though.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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I've LOVED reading your blog and the focus on production, directing details,
even location scouting and how one handles killing off a character with the
very human person who is the actor. Now for my questions My questions: 1. What
is your involvement in post production? In your first entry for this season I
think you mention about the long post production phase which is unusual for a
lot of tv shows that are still filming while airing - so I was hoping you could
comment a bit about that. Or maybe someone in post production could be
convinced to have a tag along blog that talks about that from a technical
perspective.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am very involved in post on this
show, which makes me very happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>On SMALLVILLE I was much less involved because cutting happened in LA
and I was in Vancouver and most of the shows aired by the time we finished
shooting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>HEROES I was more
involved because we were in LA, but there were also a lot of other producers
and Tim Kring was very hands-on in post.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Here, I’ve been given a lot of
responsibility.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am involved in
the picture editing of every episode, along with Remi Aubuchon, and Dreamworks - and it is our
cuts that are presented to the studio and network. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Dreamworks team, Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank often
come into the cutting room – but usually to spot solve problems that they
have.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have great editors on this
show (both of whom I met and brought with me from HEROES) so generally the job
is easy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We get notes from TNT at
lease twice during the cutting process of each episode and we must address
these notes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I get less
involved in the music.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sometimes I
go to the music spotting sessions, sometimes not, Remi is more into that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Visual effects is a big element of this show and there will
usually be an initial spotting and follow up DVDs and frequently we have to go
to ZOIC to watch shots being developed and weigh in with our opinion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dreamworks is all over this element of the
show as are Remi and I.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I care a lot
about certain sound effects (but not all the mundane ones) and will either
dictate through our post production supervisor or directly with the sound
effects editors about those.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
also care greatly, maybe mostly, about color timing – which is the final
process where the colors in the show, the dark and light levels and the
lighting are finalized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I try to
go to and oversee every color timing session (and I did this same job on
HEROES, especially in season 1).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
also try to go to every sound mix (but sometimes can’t) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a place where all of the
producers and the Dreamworks team and some TNT executives will show up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the last viewing before it goes on
the air and the last time we can fix any problems or mistakes that might have
slipped through.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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know fans are nervous about it as it has been badly done in many sci fi shows,
so I imagine someone on the show would have also felt nervous about how the
public would react to that storyline. I know Moon is pregnant - but I
understand the storyline was written in before.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>I had no tredidation until I heard how much all of ya’ll hated it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now I’m trepadized as hell!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Just kidding – it’s gonna be great!)</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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availability or to limit exposure to the cold!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not really.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’ve started in the warmer time of
year for one thing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But of course
we will always take care of her.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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answer them - so a request instead. Please make Karen redeemable and not
obsessed with Hal. There are so frequently evil attractive women in sci fi
shows (BSG, V, um.. i'm sure there are others) who's only human element seems
to be something romantic. I really like Karen's character - but it's becoming
harder and harder to see her as anything but "evil character who's weakness
is a romantic obsession". Which is fine of course, it makes an interesting
story, I'm just disappointed because I had hoped for something different from
her (not better just different). I don't know what's coming up in the future,
but that would be my hope. Heck, she and Ben could take over all the mechs and
run into the wilderness together. :) Her dynamic with Ben (distrusting on both
sides - yet have something in common) where she no longer has leverage over
him, can't fool him, could make for a very interesting storyline. Pull her out
of her constant control - because she knows she can't turn the situation to her
advantage so she will be more likely to be straight (he will never be an ally,
and he doesn't have influence with the "humans"). Oooh... </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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a lot of them were covered here. Oh, one more. How does one get to be a trainee
on set of Falling Skies!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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card so that you are allowed to work – and look us up.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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educated people to produce an unwanted pregnancy. a 5 year old can tell you
that unprotected sex leads to babies, but not a doctor? Sorry, but really
disgusted with this and I'd like to echo many fans' hope that it goes away
somehow.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yeah.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But it’s not unprecedented. This kind of thing happens to educated and uneducated people all the time - and that's in the "non"-post-apocolypse!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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take is noted along with the others</span></b><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;">.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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watching it and she's picky about her sci-fi. Anyway, my questions are: 1)
How long does it take for one of the kids to turn into a Skidder? I noticed
that the girl on the bus and the one in the woods from the first season had
changes in their face. But Karen and Ben haven't done that. Were they just not
harnessed long enough to make that full transition?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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maybe close to a year.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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as he was in the first season? He is by far my favorite character so maybe it
was just me, but I felt like he was just filler in this season and someone to
be Tom's punching bag. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>I though he was in a lot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Well anyway well make a point of putting him in more.</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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season 1 and was more complex. For instance, if it wasn't for Pope's online
blog I wouldn't have known his motivation for keeping Jimmy's compass. On the
show it appeared that he stole it and just didn't want to give it back. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Okay, just one more comment. I wasn't thrilled about Anne being preggers
because I didn't feel the need for another Mason. I love the Masons. Just
didn't see a reason to take up more airtime with another one. However, I like
Ann and Tom and she's all ready lost Sammy, so I think it would be cruel to
have her lose it at this point. </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Dang!</span><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> I lied. I
have one more comment. I don't mind romance on the show. They gotta scrounge
out some happiness somehow, but sometimes it just happens at the worst possible
time. Especially, with Maggie and Hal. In a hospital basement with aliens
attacking and hiding in a car from Mechs is not the best time to have a
relationship discussion. And giggling while doing it? It just wasn't a good
time for it. Okay done. Thank you for answering questions!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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(including giggling) in the face of imminent danger. But I don't think they really "giggled."<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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said...<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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characters regarding the parasite escaping from the jar as observed by Lourdes?
Itshould have been addressed. Perhaps it was an out take in the end.it just
didn't make sence not to address it.</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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was a failure.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were some
outlines early on that included a scene to deal with that issue and they fell
away in the rush of other stuff.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
agree that is a hanging chad.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Times; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Hi Greg!! I guess I'm still holding on to Smallville because my
question, although about Falling Skies, is related to Smallville! </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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least that’s what Pa Kent said in the cave in the series finale I directed… And
I agree!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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crew, will you have any more Smallville alumni coming over to Falling Skies as
crew or *fingers crossed* cast? BTW we are lucky in Australia, Falling skies is
shown pretty soon on pay tv after the US! </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Australia once and LOVED IT there!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was in Brisbane and Gold Coast and a little in Cairnes and
Sydney…<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I want to retire there!!!<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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when your on set. Your hilarious and its great how you talk to everyone and
joke around. Just thought you make it fun on set.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thanks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We love you guys too.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Come say “hi” so I know who posted
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information for my favorite summer show. I find it fascinating.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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is the Mason family. I think that the strength of their bond really shines in
the acting, writing, and directing. How conscious are the
writers/directors/crew on keeping the focus on the Masons and does it affect
your decisions for how to shoot a scene?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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you, as does TNT, very strongly – we are very conscious of this when writing
and directing the show.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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relate to the most? Who would you be in this post-apocalyptic world?<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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fast-talking blowhards – but we should add one.</span></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"> <o:p></o:p></span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Dear Mr. Beeman, I really appreciated
your blog and that you took the time last year for a Q&A from the fans last
season. And I was happy to see you doing it again this season. Some of my
questions may be spoilers or may be answered in the next season. But I still have
to ask because I am curious! Obviously I am a rabid fan of this show. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;"><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Charleston How many people are in <o:p></o:p></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">Charleston? </span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We say 5000 – with more arriving all
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;">o</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: Calibri; font-size: large;"> </span><span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">How long ago did they
get the lights on? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">o Are they mainly from around the
southeast or from all over the east US? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">o Do the humans remain underground
all the time, or are they allowed outside at certain intervals? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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dangerous – but they have to forage for food – so I think they do so in a
controlled manner.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">• The skitters obviously have mind
control over the harnessed kids. Do the Overlords have mind control over the
skitters? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">If so, how to the Rebel Skitters keep
their thoughts from the Overlords? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have learned how through
careful control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also, it’s not an
“open channel.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The overlords have
to open the channel to communicate to them, and this gives the rebel skitters a
chance to “shut down.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
harnessed kids could do the same with the skitters if they learned how.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Karen is “harnessed” to an Overlord
rather than a skitter. Is that why she does not seem to be all scaly? Will she
“evolve” into a creature that is more similar to an Overlord than a Skitter? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">Karen did not seem upset when her
Overlord was killed. Why? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #181818;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">I really like 2nd Watch. The first episode was about 40
minutes. However most of the rest of the episodes in the season were between
10-15 minutes. I would really like to request that 2nd Watch be extended to 30
minutes per episode. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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will mention it to the powers that be at TNT<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-size: large;">What do the aliens want from the
planet earth? That is, is there a natural resource that they want to mine? Or
are they just conquering earth for the sake of gaining new territory? <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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in season 3 and beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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made reference that the Overlords invaded the skitter planet about 100 years
ago. So are the skitters now that old? Or are they the children or
grandchildren of the originally captured skitters?</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #181818;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I think they are the original
harnessed skitters and they have a long lifespan. Although that's just my opinion/impression - I've never had an in-depth conversation with Bob Rodat or Remi about it.<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: 新細明體; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Answer:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Can't go into detail - but we will explore that concept</span><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue;">Again, thank you for appreciating the
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it or hate it, thanks for watching FALLING SKIES!<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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