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I'm a fan of The Movies, a more graphics-heavy part-machinima game that came out around 2005. You actually script out short films scene-by-scene and unlock new technology, sets, costumes, etc. as the decades roll on.
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Five Cent Deposit posted:1) I loving loved Sim Cinema and would kill to some day play it again, or play a spiritual successor. Have you played Hollywood Movie Studio (previously known as Hollywood Mogul)? It's the spreadsheet-iest game ever but is tons of fun and seems like the type of game you might be into. Only available on Windows afaik.
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May 14, 2014 23:49
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SimCinema sounds like something that would result like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGJKeESLBpQ
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May 15, 2014 02:32
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Sirocco posted:Yeah, this game is deliberately based on SimCinema Deluxe (I've even credited it as inspiration in the 'About' section). I played it a lot when I was wee and can't now because I don't have a Mac. So I thought I'd make my own version! I've fleshed out the game mechanics a lot, enough to make it more of a tribute than a rip-off I hope. Do actors have persistant stats? Like could and actor be popular early on and then have a public scandal and continue to be in the game with severely reduced popularity? Or could mediocre actors become genre favorites? edit: I don't suppose this project is on github, where I could follow it more directly? Snak fucked around with this message at 03:29 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 03:26
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Maxwell Lord posted:I'm a fan of The Movies, a more graphics-heavy part-machinima game that came out around 2005. You actually script out short films scene-by-scene and unlock new technology, sets, costumes, etc. as the decades roll on. I have a love/hate relationship with that movie. Making movies is fun, but the game is about making successful movies can be mildly-to-significantly annoying. My question: there's a lot of movies where the power goes out, and we get a huge vista of the city's lights going out. I highly doubt that the producers ask major cities to turn off all their lights, but how do they do it?
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May 15, 2014 03:39
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This is a TV question, but there is no relevant thread and I'm sure someone can answer it. Does the term "Laugh Track" just refer to a channel of audio that contains laughter or is it the explicit use of canned laughter? If its the latter, what is the term for the former (for the purposes of shows filmed in front of a live audience where the laughter is captured).
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May 15, 2014 05:20
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MisterBibs posted:I have a love/hate relationship with that movie. Making movies is fun, but the game is about making successful movies can be mildly-to-significantly annoying. Presumably painting over the film in older movies and CGI in new ones. Not sure how else they would do it.
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May 15, 2014 07:42
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MisterBibs posted:I have a love/hate relationship with that movie. Making movies is fun, but the game is about making successful movies can be mildly-to-significantly annoying. Or they build a miniature of the skyline and rig it with little bulbs in the windows that they turn off. Just like the cityscapes in Blade Runner etc. Im sure now its all CGI
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May 15, 2014 18:57
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xcore posted:This is a TV question, but there is no relevant thread and I'm sure someone can answer it. I'm pretty sure that laugh tracks are actual recordings--canned laughter. It's also often called sweetening. I don't know if there's a special name for what happens in front of a live audience, except that it's usually on the same audio track as everything else for tv shows. It would include everything else the audience does too, like gasping in surprise or cooing at babies or applauding or whatever.
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May 15, 2014 19:09
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Jack Gladney posted:I'm pretty sure that laugh tracks are actual recordings--canned laughter. It's also often called sweetening. I don't know if there's a special name for what happens in front of a live audience, except that it's usually on the same audio track as everything else for tv shows. It would include everything else the audience does too, like gasping in surprise or cooing at babies or applauding or whatever. Near the end of it's run, CBS would tape All in the Family in front of two audiences and use the best responses from each.
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May 15, 2014 22:53
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Shows taped in front of a live studio audience own, because there's a certain energy to them that you just can't replicate in a single-camera (read: shot like a film) show. Something like All in the Family, Cheers, Frasier, or (my personal favorite) Newsradio just wouldn't work as well shot in that style, because the performers know how to use the stage and thrive off of the audience and their energy.
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May 16, 2014 05:33
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Snak posted:Do actors have persistant stats? Like could and actor be popular early on and then have a public scandal and continue to be in the game with severely reduced popularity? Or could mediocre actors become genre favorites? Actors only have the one stat which is their price which doubles up as a reference for their reputation. The only thing that affects it is appearing in player-created movies. I don't have the project logged anywhere but it's nearly finished (pretty much just GUI tweaks, documentation and music to go), so I'll post a link in the thread or something when it's finished and I've learned how to turn it into an exe file.
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Yoshifan823 posted:Shows taped in front of a live studio audience own, because there's a certain energy to them that you just can't replicate in a single-camera (read: shot like a film) show. Something like All in the Family, Cheers, Frasier, or (my personal favorite) Newsradio just wouldn't work as well shot in that style, because the performers know how to use the stage and thrive off of the audience and their energy. Writing wise it's a very different job when you have to leave space for the laughs. Early Sportsnight used a canned laugh track which was unintentionally funny because Sorkin didn't leave any gaps, so the sound editor of whoever had to just through laughs in wherever they would fit.
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May 16, 2014 21:16
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Skwirl posted:Writing wise it's a very different job when you have to leave space for the laughs. Early Sportsnight used a canned laugh track which was unintentionally funny because Sorkin didn't leave any gaps, so the sound editor of whoever had to just through laughs in wherever they would fit. It's more on the actors/directors than the writers, though they do have to account for timing of the laughs. Aaron Sorkin stuff works better when he's able to cram as much dialogue as possible into a half-hour/hour, so it makes sense that SportsNight eventually dropped the laughs.
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OldSenileGuy posted:I just saw Chinatown for the first time. Harvey Keitel is great in it.
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May 18, 2014 05:00
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Yoshifan823 posted:It's more on the actors/directors than the writers, though they do have to account for timing of the laughs. Aaron Sorkin stuff works better when he's able to cram as much dialogue as possible into a half-hour/hour, so it makes sense that SportsNight eventually dropped the laughs. It completely affects the pacing of the writing, Sorkin's stuff, even the funniest bits of it, wouldn't work at all if the actors were pausing for laughs in the middle of a paragraph. (If you get the chance, watch the pilot for Sportsnight, you can almost hear the sound guy saying to himself, "finally, he's taking a breath, slam a laugh in there") A lot of the best stuff with a laugh track (canned or live) does succeed largely on the merits of the performers though, but it's a different type of writing.
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May 18, 2014 19:42
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It really is frustrating that no DVD release of Sports Night has an option to turn the laugh track off. (I think they did this with MASH or something similar.) It really is distracting because it's so intermittent and poorly timed.
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I've been looking this for years, and explaining what the Wilhelm Scream is reminded me of it. We all know what the Wilhelm Scream is, and the Youraagh. But there is a particular sound effect that I have heard a handful of places, but the only place I can really remember it is from a video game. I distinctly remember it in Twisted Metal 2, when you fall off a building, maybe when you die other ways, but definitely from falling off a building. Is there a name for it and/or a compilation for it? e: heh, apparently I've asked about that scream here before. Hockles fucked around with this message at 20:29 on May 18, 2014 |
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May 18, 2014 20:25
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Maxwell Lord posted:It really is frustrating that no DVD release of Sports Night has an option to turn the laugh track off. (I think they did this with MASH or something similar.) It really is distracting because it's so intermittent and poorly timed. there always existed 2 version of MASH with / without the canned laughter because back in the original run they sent the good version to lots of stations overseas. so they didn't have to do any work for the DVD to have before. i don't think that any version of sports night without the laugh track actually exists already.
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May 18, 2014 23:47
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Sirocco posted:Thank you, those were all great! There was also Christian Bale's freakout during Terminator 4 shooting. Way back in the day there were movies that killed hundreds of horses/etc during filming, dunno if they affected box office.
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May 19, 2014 00:58
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Cerv posted:there always existed 2 version of MASH with / without the canned laughter because back in the original run they sent the good version to lots of stations overseas. Wow, that's pretty cool. I wonder how the show would work without the canned laughter. I distinctly remember watching episodes with no laugh track, but I thought it was a creative choice for the particular episode (like a "super serious special event" episode) and it dramatically altered the tone of the show.
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May 19, 2014 04:25
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xcore posted:Wow, that's pretty cool. I wonder how the show would work without the canned laughter. I distinctly remember watching episodes with no laugh track, but I thought it was a creative choice for the particular episode (like a "super serious special event" episode) and it dramatically altered the tone of the show. I think they left out the laugh track for the episode with a timer running in the corner. Wouldn't surprise me if they did it for the more serious / preachy episodes (inevitibly the ones directed by Alan Alda)
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Five Cent Deposit posted:There was a great old shareware game for Mac called Sim Cinema. You game looks extremely similar. I'm telling you this for two reasons: Dammit, I've been planning a Sim Cinema ripoff for years. Maybe now I won't have to! xcore posted:Wow, that's pretty cool. I wonder how the show would work without the canned laughter. I distinctly remember watching episodes with no laugh track, but I thought it was a creative choice for the particular episode (like a "super serious special event" episode) and it dramatically altered the tone of the show. IIRC in the last, I believe, two seasons they cut the laugh track entirely as the creator had been fighting the entire time not to have a laugh track. feedmyleg fucked around with this message at 06:13 on May 19, 2014 |
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May 19, 2014 06:09
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feedmyleg posted:IIRC in the last, I believe, two seasons they cut the laugh track entirely as the creator had been fighting the entire time not to have a laugh track. To bring it back to movies then, Did the MASH movie have a laugh track?
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May 19, 2014 06:32
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xcore posted:To bring it back to movies then, Did the MASH movie have a laugh track? No
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regulargonzalez posted:I think they left out the laugh track for the episode with a timer running in the corner. Wouldn't surprise me if they did it for the more serious / preachy episodes (inevitibly the ones directed by Alan Alda) The first season had a laugh track for the entire episode, and that included scenes in the OR. Starting in the second they realized having a laugh track in the OR was hosed up, so they got rid of it. They also did not have the laugh track for certain episodes (ones breaking the traditional sitcom format)
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May 19, 2014 06:43
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Have any movies ever had a laugh track?
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Purple Gromit posted:Have any movies ever had a laugh track? Inland Empire.
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Natural Born Killers.
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 Is there a specific term for out-of-focus lights like this? Criminal Minded fucked around with this message at 08:59 on May 22, 2014 |
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Bokeh.
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^^ Oh, that's really cool actually.Criminal Minded posted:
Heptagon...ian?
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Don't know if this is the right place for this, but here goes. My boyfriend and I had a discussion about Sucker Punch the other day. He contended that the movie was sexist garbage, while I argued that the "sexism" was on purpose to make a point about the unhealthy portrayal of women in media in general. I was kinda curious what you guys thought of the movie, both in general and in regards to the whole sexism thing.
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McCloud posted:Don't know if this is the right place for this, but here goes. My boyfriend and I had a discussion about Sucker Punch the other day. He contended that the movie was sexist garbage, while I argued that the "sexism" was on purpose to make a point about the unhealthy portrayal of women in media in general. I was kinda curious what you guys thought of the movie, both in general and in regards to the whole sexism thing. Archives is down but the Sucker Punch thread delved heavily into this. The basic gist is that the "sexy commando girl" stuff is a mental block by the main character to avoid the fact that she's being sexually abused in a mental ward.
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Is it ever explained in Fargo why Jerry (William H. Macy) needed the money in the first place or how he got into whatever debt he was in?
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SkunkDuster posted:Is it ever explained in Fargo why Jerry (William H. Macy) needed the money in the first place or how he got into whatever debt he was in? I don't believe so
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SkunkDuster posted:Is it ever explained in Fargo why Jerry (William H. Macy) needed the money in the first place or how he got into whatever debt he was in? Nope, at least I'm pretty sure not, I think it's just one of those 'the why doesn't matter it's what he does in the present that does' things.
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Tatum Girlparts posted:Nope, at least I'm pretty sure not, I think it's just one of those 'the why doesn't matter it's what he does in the present that does' things. Correct. And it's even addressed in one exchange of dialog: IMDb posted:Jerry Lundegaard: I'm in a bit of trouble...
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SkunkDuster posted:Is it ever explained in Fargo why Jerry (William H. Macy) needed the money in the first place or how he got into whatever debt he was in? It's been a little while since I've seen it, but I was always under the impression that he wanted the money to get out from underneath his father-in-law's thumb.
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