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    locations Narrator scenes: where to shoot...

    Ehhhhh ... right outside. A few years ago I compiled a photo-essay "State of the Nation" illustrating the decrepitude of the US's major cities. I have half a dozen pictures from the "SF Bay Area" if that's still your location. I also found myself quite by accident in "a dilapidated old library...
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    locations Narrator scenes: where to shoot...

    :hmm: What's not feasible about picking one or other of those? It sounds to me like you need to take time to tour your local area (on foot) and have a look at what's available in the way of locations. That'd probably be a lot quicker, easier and cheaper to do than to trying to master a software...
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    locations Narrator scenes: where to shoot...

    Let that be your guide. These are not very location-specific themes, so you can instead look for "metaphorical" locations inspired by the examples given and/or actual phrases used by your interviewees. Think of working backwards instead of forwards: identify a real-world illustration of...
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    locations Narrator scenes: where to shoot...

    I'm confused. :hmm: Are you asking about locations for your own straight to camera narration (the underlying narrative), or locations for interviews with the scientists (specific contributions to/opinions about the subject)? If it's the former, you could do the simplest thing and stand in front...
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    Fresh Face introduction!

    Well, now - that's an introduction! (and a refreshing change ;) ) :hi: Greetings, from another subscriber to the "head in the clouds, feet on the ground" philosophy.
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    screenplay Rapid movement

    "A [three-day] timelapse shot of a coastal town, wide-angle view as seen from from the sea" or "Panoramic view of a town seafront, as a [number of days] timelapse"
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    What are you listening to right NOW!

    Ah yeah, I'm very familiar with that particular piece ... though I'd stop short of describing it as cool. More "alright-ish" - good background music. :devil: To the best of my knowledge, I've never been insulted, abused or otherwise psycholocigally traumatised by a harpsichord, but ... I dunno...
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    What are you listening to right NOW!

    Thought it was more a case of Cinderella at first, when she disappeared on the stroke of midnight 2am just as I hurrying towards her to ask for one last dance. Gone, just like that, and not even a glass slipper left behind ...:abduct: But she was back for the next evening, the whole of it. And...
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    streaming Why are podcasts engaging?

    Agreed. I think a huge amount of "content" on the Internet is nothing more than a substitute for the kind of low-investment discussion that takes place around water coolers, in bars/pubs, or any other gossip-friendly meeting space. In most of those situations, you'll get a few "talking heads"...
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    format The End of Formatting work

    It seems to me that you're confounding two different concepts in that statement. First, that automation is a/the solution to practical problems (yes it is, sometimes, and sometimes it isn't); and secondly that all creativity is ultimately transactional, and financially transactional at that...
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    What are you listening to right NOW!

    🤔 Does Indietalk offer therapy sessions ... or exorcisms? Am convinced I've been bewitched ... can't stop thinking about my Bohemian Girl ... ... and can't wait till next July to dance with her again at my local festival ... :no: She said she'd be at another one next month. In Switzerland...
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    What are you listening to right NOW!

    I don't like the harpsichord, and I'm not all that keen on baroque music even if you take the harpsichord out, but I'm listening to (or rather watching) this over and over ... ... because I got to dance with her several times during the weekend. Though we've intermittently occupied the...
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    Greetings from Switzerland

    :hi: Greetings, Ramon. I'll be peeking over the Swiss border at the end of the week - jump up and down so I can see you! :D
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    format The End of Formatting work

    :D Funny you should post that as a counter-point: over this side of th'Atlantic, there are now hundreds of municipalities in Europe that have decided enough is enough, and cars are just outright banned from town and city centres. And life is so much better there without them. :cool:
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    music Tell me if my soundtrack is too outdated and overused

    If it's of any help, I don't recognise any of the songs or bands on that list, so in themselves, they wouldn't date the film for me ... other than to make it "recent". :D
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    format The End of Formatting work

    Forgive me for quoting my own post, but I've just come across an article in The Guardian newspaper (online version) from which I offer this heavily edited excerpt: Computer-assisted writing, computer-assisted publication, computer-assisted recommendations. The only "human" aspect of the story...
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    format The End of Formatting work

    The selection of screenplays posted here over the last few years gives more of an impression that these "new screenwriters" are struggling with writing generally, rather than screenplays specifically. I'm not sure that getting an "intelligent" computer to correctly format a slab of vaguely...
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    critique Criticism much needed

    Do you mean The Usual Suspects ? :hmm: In any case, the story as written portrays Tucker as a brutal, cold-blooded murderer from the outset, so we have no reason to care whether he's a liar or not. I'd have assumed he was untrustworthy in every respect, so (again) that makes it pointless to...
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    critique Criticism much needed

    I got that, but a flashback is something "internal" to the person having it, and in such a short work it doesn't make sense to create a whole false flashback sequence when neither the false one nor the real version has any particular relevance to Tucker's conversation with Harley. If it does...
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