Great thread by John Rogers on why writers need to be on set for TRAINING purposes, written late on May 6th, 2023:

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Bonuses:

Link to John's thread about having writers on set for DIALOGUE.

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ON STRIKE!

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Sweeney Todd at the Royal Swedish Opera, 2023.

Photo: Sören Vilks/Annika Berglund.

from Symmetry and gears: Six axis racks by Henry Segerman

i feel like there's significance to minori's hair color? like. mp100 is very vibrantly colored, all save for the mogami arc. it becomes dreary when mob and reigen arrive at the mansion, and in mogamiland it's entirely washed out and drab. and minori's no exception, obviously, she's as washed out as the rest (her hair looks almost grey in mogamiland), but i feel like there's something to the fact that her hair is as unusual a color as purple in the episodes most devoid of any color.

The WGA and AMPTP have reached a tentative deal to end the writer's strike 146 days after it started.

This is incredible news. As someone in the film and TV industry, I'm thrilled and I applaud the members of the WGA for their tenacity. They truly showed up and fought to make things better for future generations of writers, and they deserve everything they asked for (and hopefully won) with this deal. Fingers crossed that a similar deal will be reached soon between the AMPTP and SAG-AFTRA to end the actor's strike.

That being said, as someone working in VFX, I'm imploring everyone to be kind to VFX artists in the coming months. We all want the industry to make a comeback and to be part of bringing back the media we all know and love, but I can guarantee that the big studios of the AMPTP that contract out work to smaller VFX shops like mine are now going to try to make up as much lost revenue as possible. Shows that had production grind to a standstill are going to come back on condensed schedules, and since all the smaller shops have been hit hard by the strikes, they're going to take up as much work as possible. And VFX folks don't have unions. We don't have protections against gross amounts of overtime to stop the client studios from simply pulling a show from us if we can't bend over for a wildly unrealistic production schedule.

Again, I'm thrilled the WGA strike has an end in sight, but I'm also mentally preparing for a sucky few months ahead for myself and my friends and colleagues in post-production. And the work will suffer for it; it always does. So if the CG in your favorite shows or that movie you're looking forward to looks kind of wonky in the coming year, please be kind to the VFX artists. We're always doing the best we can with what we're given, and I think we're about to be given a lot less than usual.

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Really fantastic thread from John Rogers late on May 6th, 2023, about having writers on set for DIALOGUE.

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What came after Number 17 was a link to his follow up thread on training which I'm linking here.

there was truly a very unexpected number of explicit on-screen deaths in puss in boots the last wish. an unexpected number of swears also

Magic Man!