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Jeffrey Kafer
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 Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 12:16 pm Post subject: |
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Actually, Kara, depending on the context, that is really good direction. You want an actor to stretch to the limits and then have to pull back a little.
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bobbinbeamo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:15 pm Post subject: |
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Hey Kara & All, how about this little slice of voiceover h@ll:
Client: Do it again.
Talent: Ok sure. How would you like that changed?
Client: I don't know. Just do it again.
edited once for typo infraction...sorry.
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Dave
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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| KaraEdwards wrote: | "Really go over the top with this...the sky is the limit"
"Do it again, but can you pull it back a little? That was a bit much don't you think?"  |
I with you Kara. That's pretty much meaningless direction to me. Why? One persons "over the top...the sky is the limit" is another persons "no where near the top... barely two inches off the ground."
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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| KaraEdwards wrote: | "Really go over the top with this...the sky is the limit"
[insert VO]
"Do it again, but can you pull it back a little? That was a bit much don't you think?" |
Bitches.
Pull this back.
That's just insulting.
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Jeffrey Kafer
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: |
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well yeah, saying it that way is certainly rude. But there's no harm in seeing where an actor can take a character and then having them focus it down.
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Jacob Ekstroem
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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"Can you do it more like that movie-trailer guy? Ya know, reeeeally deep?"
No, but I can give you his number.........................  !!!!!!
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Deirdre
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 5:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | But there's no harm in seeing where an actor can take a character and then having them focus it down. |
Right! It's a good way to get a grip on an actor's limits.
That isn't what happened to Kara.
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DougVox
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| Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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And another one from the And-Just-Exactly-How-is-That-Supposed-to-be-Helpful?" Hall of Shame:
"Yeah, uh, do it again, but this time, uh...do it better." (Said with a completely straight face, by the way.)
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BenWils
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:50 am Post subject: |
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Rule:
Huge jobs and auditions will come when you are on vacation or have something going on in which you absolutely cannot get out of.
Also, ending sentences with 'of' will never impress anyone 
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tackerman
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 8:54 am Post subject: |
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Deirdre
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Don't worry about that "preposition at the end of a sentence" thing.
It is a falsely constructed complaint.
| Quote: | | Some of the "rules" of English grammar that you learned in school were devised by pedants who believed that English was inferior to Latin and should be improved by forcing it onto the Procrustean bed of Latin grammar. But English is descended from an ancestral German dialect, not from Latin, and certain of the rules based on Latin grammar simply do not fit the structure of English. |
Check out GrammarTips.com.
And this gem of insight from the CBC.
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ccpetersen
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I heartily agree... the point is to write clearly and succinctly when possible, and if a sentence ends with a preposition and is clear and succinct, then so be it. That being said, I do try to avoid ending with preps if it makes the sentence (and delivery) sound clunky.
That flies in the face of the rules that Sister Mary Aloysius drummed into my head in fourth grade... ah well...
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BenWils
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Deirdre wrote: | Don't worry about that "preposition at the end of a sentence" thing.
It is a falsely constructed complaint.
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Ahh yes, thanks DB. You know your stuff indeed.
You know what I always say though.....of all the purest, most un-borrowed forms of language out there, English is the Creme de la Creme. LOL!!!
It's a joke.
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Diane Maggipinto
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| Posted: Thu Nov 15, 2007 2:00 pm Post subject: |
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ben, i am ell oh elling right now!
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todd ellis
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this seems like as good a place as any for this ...
1) 10/27/07: client sent me 22 scripts ... voiced and posted the scripts to FTP, as per agreement for approval.
2) 10/29/07: i email client that their files are up and awaiting approval
3) 11/5/07: see #2
4) 11/10/07: client's boss emails wondering why we are so behind and i explain #1, #2 & #3 ... she says she'll get right on it.
5) 11/14/07: boss says "hey - where is my audio?" i say "your employee need to approve the audio. she says she'll get right on it.
5) 11/15/07: i get an email from employee ... the COPY FOR THE SCRIPTS I VOICED 3 WEEKS AGO!
6) minutes ago: ARRRRRUUUUUGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!@!@!!
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