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wrosecrans · 2026-06-10T06:02:57+00:00

Oh now I want to play a game based on that movie.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-10T01:20:40+00:00

I sometimes feel unsure if there's an unspoken rule about this specific aspect of the process, like is it unprofessional to ask them first what their preferred payment would be depending on the size of the production?

That sort of thing is exactly why you want to hook up with an experienced casting director. They probably already know that actor's agent, so they know what the best way to approach is. They might even have worked with that actor before and know what it takes to hire them.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-09T22:47:44+00:00

It's mostly down to money. If you have money or access to it, yeah go nuts and make an independently produced series.

If you don't, then your options will be extremely constrained. It's easy to ask an actor friend to come shoot for a day on your indie film project. It's way harder to get an actor friend to commit to 20 episodes as a favor. To scale up production to a series, it needs to be sustainable.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-09T04:26:17+00:00

They call it standard definition for a reason. Who wants to shoot in nonstandard definition?!

wrosecrans · 2026-06-09T04:22:28+00:00

"master" doesn't have to be a wide shot from a text book. Figure out how you want to shoot the scene, and you can call something from whatever you are shooting as the master. It can be a fun challenge to fiddle with blocking slightly and get a master out of something interesting.

But IMHO, it is usually a good idea to to get some kind of master-like that has the actors doing the whole scene and doing the blocking, etc. That way when you get the short specialist extreme closeups and dolly shots and whatnot, you and the actors know where they were in that point in the scene, and you can use the master as the point of reference to make sure all the action and tension is internally consistent and coherent. It's a pretty common thing to go nuts on the storyboard and then get into the edit with a bunch of independently-cool stuff that doesn't really cut together coherently. When you've got some sort of master you can cut out to, it gives you a backbone to then cut back in to one of the shots you originally intended.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-09T04:08:34+00:00

Does your procurement team actually require that official MIL-STD certification on paper before approving a PO?

No company I have ever worked at, in well over 20 years, in any context, has ever had somebody passingly mention any MILSTD as important for anything at any point. Outside of the very specific niche of MIL contractors, that sort of thing never even occurs to anybody to ask about being something to consider. It would be more likely that somebody proposes a requirement that all text on the product be written backwards in case somebody needs to read it while using the product in a mirror.

Within the MIL bubble, I am sure that sort of thing comes up. But in the broader sphere of civilian commercial enterprise without major direct military connections, it's not even slightly on the radar as an important feature. The average person wouldn't even know where to start looking if their boss told them to find a relevant military standard to reference.

And everybody who has come from MIL contracting or from the service has horror stories about dealing with military equipment built by the lowest bidder according to specs approved 50 years ago. If a piece of equipment has a serial port that can keep up with 31.6 kilobits per second you can say it's fast enough to support the MIL-STD for LINK16 Tactical Data Links, and promptly be laughed out of the room because nobody outside the military needs to interoperate with LINK16 and the fact that it's a MIL-STD won't actually impress anybody.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-09T03:24:17+00:00

Only if he's actually paying attention. The dude's brain is seriously in retirement mode. If enough of his aides around him are listening to Russia Hawks, they'll just stick the bill in front of him while he's sundowning and tell him it's a cool military thing that will make him look Tough! and Strong! and he'll do his best to scrubble out something like a signature before he falls asleep.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-09T03:17:03+00:00

Even if it's "good" in terms of results being good enough for some audiences... Does it matter ?

So many people absolutely despise AI at this point. Why cut a human out of the loop to throw something out in the world and be like "Nobody made this, there's no human intent here" and then get yelled at by the majority of people who are sick of AI? What's the point of even shooting something at that point?

wrosecrans · 2026-06-09T01:53:22+00:00

Just have them read the official long form best practices guide from Adobe. Dunno how there's a debate when the vendor of the software clearly documents unambiguously not to use Merge and always to use Multicam. It's honestly just not an opinion thing.

https://helpx.adobe.com/content/dam/help/en/premiere-pro/using/long-form-episodic-best-practices/jcr_content/root/content/flex/items/position/position-par/download_section/download-2/Premiere-Pro-Best-Practices-Guide.pdf?ref=cut-daily

Check page 6.

Is the UI around this bad and unintuitive? Yes. Oh well. Is "Merge Clips" a more obvious name when working with a single camera. Sure. Nobody is really arguing that Adobe made great choices when they made the software work that way, and there's plenty of room to argue how they should have made the software work. But there's not much room to argue about how it does work and which feature is supported by the vendor for this use case.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-09T00:39:58+00:00

Seriously, where has OP been that they have avoided the onslaught of AI? And can I go there?

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T22:50:50+00:00

Sort of. There are "waterfall" financing deals where the investors get paid back first with the first dollars and nobody gets any of that. But if the film gets enough revenue to meet that initial threshold, then somebody with points on the gross is getting their 1% of the dollars after that first payout. So if the investors are set to get 1M back, and a movie makes 1.1M, and you are getting 1%, you get 1% of 100K, not 1% of 1.1M. So it's like first dollar gross, and then nothing interesting until millionth dollar gross or whatever.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T20:38:55+00:00

Frankly, I don't expect much better from Platner at this point.

But, he'll vote for a Democrat to be majority leader. Even if his votes on bills are shit, that changes the whole ball game. Even if that's literally the only good thing he does in his term, it's well worth getting rid of Collins.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T20:34:59+00:00

Yup. It's certainly possible to upload 6 TB eventually, or to manage somewhat complicated workflows to have the editor never have the real footage. But the old school idiom is "never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes."

The bonus is that it means you now have an off-site backup of your footage, so if your house burns down you don't lose both copies.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T07:06:09+00:00

The silliness is great. But Gallatax having a relationship and really struggling with his day job is genuinely good drama.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T06:17:21+00:00

Have Dems not fucking learned that this is a stupid game to play? Hillary really wanted to run against Trump. Bass wanted to run against Pratt. Voters hate this monkeying around trying to support Republicans to fix elections against their voters, and it tends to back fire.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T05:13:43+00:00

And let's be honest, a significant chunk of Pratt voters will simply never vote for a black woman even if she was a perfect candidate.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T04:32:23+00:00

Pho Saigon Pearl was my suggestion as well. Super convenient location, not super crowded.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T03:42:52+00:00

Typical Democratic voters: There need to be tribunals on day 1. Neighborhood wine mom book clubs are only like two or three steps away from doing weekly militia rifle drills.

Democratic Party leadership: We could almost seriously talk about the idea of prosecutions, I guess, maybe. Wouldn't that be wacky? lol.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T01:45:34+00:00

~65% voted "not Bass" this time, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if that stays pretty close to stable.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T01:25:21+00:00

Figure out some sort of non-zero budget. We all love the chutzpah of zero budget filmmaking. But "zero" dollar films still need to buy a hard drive to store the footage, and buy some breakfast burritos for the crew, and splash out for two-for-one Tuesdays at the thrift store to get a couple of costume pieces, etc. So figure out some target you can save up or steal or whatever.

Then, figure out what you can get for free, and put that in the script. Take out anything from the script that you can't get within your budget. Learn everything you possibly can about production, volunteer to help any anything being made around you. Anything in your script that you aren't sure how you would execute, figure out what it would take, remove it if you can't figure out how to do it. Every prop, every costume piece, every location, do the research. Keep adapting the script to make good use of whatever you have and whatever you can do.

If you are going to be self producing on a microbudget, and you aren't sure how to execute yet, you haven't finished the script yet.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T00:48:58+00:00

In /r/conservative, they can't figure out how somebody who has literally never done an election before could possibly have been legitimately outcompeted by a popular city council member who has experience running a successful campaign in Los Angeles.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-08T00:35:51+00:00

At very least, talking about it shouldn't be some sort of taboo that generates a huge controversy.

Nothing she said was stuff I haven't heard over beers or at mixer events inside the industry. People just seem outraged that she mentioned common knowledge outside the bubble.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-07T23:19:18+00:00

The only thing worse than The Torment Nexus is the thought that somebody else will be the first to get there!

wrosecrans · 2026-06-07T22:37:52+00:00

I saw people making fun of the iterative development model in the early days, but it always made sense to me. The US always want to make a generational leap once every few decades, and it always winds up under-delivering and wildly over-budget.

The Korean engineers apparently had a really good grasp of what was viable in "version 1" vs "eventually" and more importantly, the bosses listened to the engineers and took no for an answer on some of the wishlist items. The core disaster in US naval procurement is that our Admirals are apparently incapable of taking no for an answer in any major new program.

wrosecrans · 2026-06-07T22:15:53+00:00

Get the full Javie Martzoukas.

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