Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 16:18:58 -0400
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Enterprise - the end is nigh!
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 11:38 AM 4/18/05 -0500, thaughey wrote:
>Oh that I had broadband so I could!

The DVD is for sale at Amazon.com...about $10.  I'm thinking about ordering
it, just to have a convenient format to show this thing off with.

>I see your point, but we've still
>got a way to go on the distribution side.

There are options, particularly if your cost per episode is more like $100K
than $2 million.

>"Cheap" and "talent" are also
>words that don't usually fit together well or that don't last long when
>they do. --Tom Haughey

This sort of show would be looking for different talent than today's shows.
 The person doing the voice doesn't have to be the person doing the
movement for instance.  There are talented folks all over the place...the
stars come from somewhere.  As for the talent rising in price, that's a
demand thing and based on there being an industry with enough concentrated
capital to pay them what they demand.  I'm postulating a different setup
here where that may not be as possible.

A lot of the support talent won't be needed as much, or at all (makeup for
instance).  You can re-use set parts easily in any number of productions,
simultaneously, allowing you to spread the cost of making them up over many
shows.  Whether you lose lighting people, electricians, cameramen, etc.
will depend on how soon you can have the entire visual part done digitally,
rather than mixing live action with it.

I'd like to see them re-make Starship Troopers...properly next time.  They
left out the powered armor because of cost considerations.  If all the
costumes are added digitally along with the sets, this isn't as big an
issue and becomes more possible.

-- Mike B.
--
It's better to be an optimist and a fool, than a pessimist and right.