SG1: Flesh and Blood commentary
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Flesh and Blood: R C Cooper, Jim Menard, Will Waring.
About camera operators, directors, promoting within the show. Talk briefing about Meridian. Importance of season openers. Bigger shows are not necessarily given more time to shoot, just more money that usually goes into SFX.
Cooper drones a lot about the Ori. Cooper loves the storyline of Carter being stranded in
space, and they talk about how that was accomplished.
The Adria storyline. Difficulty in casting kids, using wardrobe to suggest the three young actresses are the same person. The first 4 year old froze when she saw the set. Tim Guinee worked hard at juggling to distract her but no go. All the stuff was shot without her, then weeks later another actress was brought in to shoot the child Adria stuff.
More stuff about how Carter in Space was created. A star field are mirrors glued on black velvet.
The scene where Daniel escapes from the exploding ship. The first edit had him sense trouble and beam out before the ship was hit and it made him look unheroic. So they reedited it and now he may now not actually have enough time to beam himself out as the ship is destroyed but they hope it “dramatically hopefully works better without Michael being a chicken.” IOA is a metaphor for what they deal with in production with the various entities. It overseas the SGC, budget, decisions. They get revenge by calling them names…getting back at the people who make their lives miserable.
The medium age Adria was quite remarkable and has since gone onto do some films. More about the Ori, about putting a face on the Ori to make it more personal. Daniel’s uberarc was looking for Sha’re. Teal’c was freeing the Jaffa. Vala is a rogue, almost a mini adversary within the team. How do you bring in an outsider? Vala is important because she can contribute to solving the Adria problem and there is her uberarc. Made Vala more three dimensional. (they spend a fair bit of time discussing Vala.)
Talk about Vala’s immaculate conception.
The magic between Claudia and Michael. It’s rare and wonderful. Mentions Michael’s interview (“no disrespect intended”) where he said Claudia renewed his excitement for acting. Speaks well of Tim Guinee.
Stuff about editing. There’s the director’s cut and then the producer makes a cut from that. Sometimes even when you’re filming a scene you know it will hit the cutting room floor. Sometimes a steady cam shot might be super cool and is a favorite but a good director can abandon it if it really doesn’t work.
Discussed the Ori set (wood tones yet lit blue.) Villagers in space, they decorated the ships with their village stuff. They tried to evoke the feeling of the people. Cooper admits to not often watching the finished version (they see the HD stuff on set, then it goes to the AVID which as horrible resolution and that is what they work on. It’s a surprise to see the finished product look so good. The Ori ship went from design to shooting in two weeks. Sometimes stuff is done so hurriedly but it turns out great.
The hair fiasco with Chris. He shaved his hairline up quite high.
Later in the show, they started showing a bigger canvas and quit doing so many close-ups, maybe because of HD and more big screens. They mentioned there wasn’t a lot of ads for the start of this season and people weren’t aware it was on. Upon second showing the ratings when up some. Also it was downloaded a lot.
Flesh and Blood: R C Cooper, Jim Menard, Will Waring.
About camera operators, directors, promoting within the show. Talk briefing about Meridian. Importance of season openers. Bigger shows are not necessarily given more time to shoot, just more money that usually goes into SFX.
Cooper drones a lot about the Ori. Cooper loves the storyline of Carter being stranded in
space, and they talk about how that was accomplished.
The Adria storyline. Difficulty in casting kids, using wardrobe to suggest the three young actresses are the same person. The first 4 year old froze when she saw the set. Tim Guinee worked hard at juggling to distract her but no go. All the stuff was shot without her, then weeks later another actress was brought in to shoot the child Adria stuff.
More stuff about how Carter in Space was created. A star field are mirrors glued on black velvet.
The scene where Daniel escapes from the exploding ship. The first edit had him sense trouble and beam out before the ship was hit and it made him look unheroic. So they reedited it and now he may now not actually have enough time to beam himself out as the ship is destroyed but they hope it “dramatically hopefully works better without Michael being a chicken.” IOA is a metaphor for what they deal with in production with the various entities. It overseas the SGC, budget, decisions. They get revenge by calling them names…getting back at the people who make their lives miserable.
The medium age Adria was quite remarkable and has since gone onto do some films. More about the Ori, about putting a face on the Ori to make it more personal. Daniel’s uberarc was looking for Sha’re. Teal’c was freeing the Jaffa. Vala is a rogue, almost a mini adversary within the team. How do you bring in an outsider? Vala is important because she can contribute to solving the Adria problem and there is her uberarc. Made Vala more three dimensional. (they spend a fair bit of time discussing Vala.)
Talk about Vala’s immaculate conception.
The magic between Claudia and Michael. It’s rare and wonderful. Mentions Michael’s interview (“no disrespect intended”) where he said Claudia renewed his excitement for acting. Speaks well of Tim Guinee.
Stuff about editing. There’s the director’s cut and then the producer makes a cut from that. Sometimes even when you’re filming a scene you know it will hit the cutting room floor. Sometimes a steady cam shot might be super cool and is a favorite but a good director can abandon it if it really doesn’t work.
Discussed the Ori set (wood tones yet lit blue.) Villagers in space, they decorated the ships with their village stuff. They tried to evoke the feeling of the people. Cooper admits to not often watching the finished version (they see the HD stuff on set, then it goes to the AVID which as horrible resolution and that is what they work on. It’s a surprise to see the finished product look so good. The Ori ship went from design to shooting in two weeks. Sometimes stuff is done so hurriedly but it turns out great.
The hair fiasco with Chris. He shaved his hairline up quite high.
Later in the show, they started showing a bigger canvas and quit doing so many close-ups, maybe because of HD and more big screens. They mentioned there wasn’t a lot of ads for the start of this season and people weren’t aware it was on. Upon second showing the ratings when up some. Also it was downloaded a lot.
