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That's where you can hear actors come in and say your lines in every manner possible. That's right, pretty people come in, say your words back to you, and you get to JUDGE them with impunity!", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "24946787-ee4f-4e35-b26b-4a8fc709eb20", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.094, "w": 0.77, "x": 0.118, "y": 0.529 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "So don't be a Time Bandit (or a \"Time Vampire\"). Tell people what you want concisely... and then leave... or better yet, tell one of your writer/producers, let them have the discussion with the different department heads first, and then make course corrections later there's an adequate level of proof of concept.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "41617ab0-3ce8-44cb-b338-aa218eb8dd30", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.268, "w": 0.77, "x": 0.118, "y": 0.645 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "All of this brings me to post-production. In the late twentieth century - thanks to advances in computer software and memory, and the development of the non-linear/non-destructive editing workflow - post-production changed from a fairly recondite and artisanal process to becoming the single most seductive time suck for showrunners. A showrunner can now go into the editing suite with a large leather couch and massive high-definition screens with a pipeline to the editing system, and watch an episode, a sequence, a scene - even a single sequence of shots - over and over again, and demand any change that enters his/her mind... and, thanks to the miracle of computerized cut-and-paste and endless levels of \"undo\" and \"redo\" see it all in real time, and continue to demand changes until every combination of every frame that was shot has been considered.", "attrs": null, "subkind": "paragraph", "toolName": null, "toolSlug": null, "confidence": null, "componentId": "56a4e401-072a-457e-903a-7eebff085b95", "frameworkName": null, "frameworkSlug": null }, { "bbox": { "h": 0.094, "w": 0.77, "x": 0.118, "y": 0.268 }, "kind": "paragraph", "text": "These are \"the sexy, glamorous jobs.\" You can convince yourself that your direct supervision of these tasks is of the essence... especially if you are stuck on a difficult story knot and the other writers keep telling you the direction you want to go isn't going to untangle it. 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