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Anatomy of a Finale: Download the Scripts for Eps 11 and 12

Anatomy of a Finale: Download the Scripts for Eps 11 and 12

racheltalalay:

The scripts for Hell Bent and Heaven Sent are now available. For those interested in directing or filmmaking in general, I suggest taking the first couple of scenes of Heaven Sent and thinking through how you would have designed and shot these sequences. 

They were some of the more challenging pages I’d ever been given in terms of visually conceptualizing within a budget. In an all CGI world or with all the sets in the world, this is only limited by imagination.

It was its own puzzle-box and those pages alone could have taken at least 1/3 of the schedule and the entire budget to shoot. 

Take all your ideas and try to fit them within a TV budget and schedule. Then cut that in half. Then you might start to feel the constraints and how they expand the creativity. 

Feel free to tell me what you would have done (and done better). Or just your random thoughts. I’m still trying to figure it out. 

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*whispers* a lot of people don’t like the first season and they say going on to the next seasons is better (of buffy)

merindab:

I should probably just skip to whenever Spike shows up. Though I have at least watched “once more with feeling.”

See I missed Buffy when it was on. It aired from 1997 to 2003. I graduated high school and went into the military in 1997. I didn’t really have regular access to TV again until…1999? (Living in military barracks with the only TV access being the one in the common room). I got my first computer that was mine in 1999, but I don’t think we even had Internet access for another year or two. So basically if it was the late 90s or early 2000s I probably missed it.