Post by qb on Nov 20, 2005 18:55:22 GMT -5
As some may recall, Shibby won two books for anwering the most Rap Trivia contest questions correctly (yeah, Shibby!) I was looking at the two prizes and thought our members might be interested in a few remarks from Shawn Ryan and Chiklis regarding the filming process, which is what is happening right now on The Shield set!
"It's a Herculean task to produce a television show every seven business days. Scripts have to be written, locations have to be scouted, directors have to be prepped, sets have to be built, props have to be made, costumes have to be made, actors have to prepare, scenes have to be shot under difficult conditions and extraordinary time pressures, episodes have to be edited, music has to be found, sound has to be mixed, and a network and two studios have to be kept updated on the status of every one of these endeavors. It's an impossible job that our producers, writers, cast, crew and post-production staff make possible for months every year..."
-SHAWN RYAN, The Shield, Notes from the Elite Strike Team Files, David Jacob
"There have been circumstances where we've walked away from scenes and just had to talk it out. Like when I fried Armadillo's face on a grill, we walked away from that one shaking our heads and feeling pretty shaken, mentally and physically. Walton and I got on the phone and talked a couple of hours to kind of let it go....
I will say that at the end of a shooting day, I feel emotionally, mentally, physically wrung out. Fifteen hours a day just pounding away. I'll do an incredibly emotional scene, and be finished with it, and then go out to bash down a door and jump on a junkie and kick the crap out of him. When you have to go through a spectrum of things like that in a day, by the end of the day you're just cross-eyed. I'll tell you what, I sleep really well!"
-MICHAEL CHIKLIS,Spotlight, Jeff Mariotte and Jean Diaz
"Writing and producing the television version of The Shield is a back-breaking, soul-sucking, ulcer-inducing exercise in weekly damage control. Ultimately, it's also the most creatively satisfying experience I've ever had...
The final cut is a different piece of art than the writing, the directing or the acting. It's a combination of all those elements, plus the unseen influence of dozens of crew members. In the end, the final product is an uncontrollable thing that belongs to all of us who work on the show. It is its own thing."
-SHAWN RYAN, Spotlight, Jeff Mariotte and Jean Diaz
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The comic book is especially cool. I will mail these books to you tomorrow, Shibby! Enjoy reading the rest!!
"It's a Herculean task to produce a television show every seven business days. Scripts have to be written, locations have to be scouted, directors have to be prepped, sets have to be built, props have to be made, costumes have to be made, actors have to prepare, scenes have to be shot under difficult conditions and extraordinary time pressures, episodes have to be edited, music has to be found, sound has to be mixed, and a network and two studios have to be kept updated on the status of every one of these endeavors. It's an impossible job that our producers, writers, cast, crew and post-production staff make possible for months every year..."
-SHAWN RYAN, The Shield, Notes from the Elite Strike Team Files, David Jacob
"There have been circumstances where we've walked away from scenes and just had to talk it out. Like when I fried Armadillo's face on a grill, we walked away from that one shaking our heads and feeling pretty shaken, mentally and physically. Walton and I got on the phone and talked a couple of hours to kind of let it go....
I will say that at the end of a shooting day, I feel emotionally, mentally, physically wrung out. Fifteen hours a day just pounding away. I'll do an incredibly emotional scene, and be finished with it, and then go out to bash down a door and jump on a junkie and kick the crap out of him. When you have to go through a spectrum of things like that in a day, by the end of the day you're just cross-eyed. I'll tell you what, I sleep really well!"
-MICHAEL CHIKLIS,Spotlight, Jeff Mariotte and Jean Diaz
"Writing and producing the television version of The Shield is a back-breaking, soul-sucking, ulcer-inducing exercise in weekly damage control. Ultimately, it's also the most creatively satisfying experience I've ever had...
The final cut is a different piece of art than the writing, the directing or the acting. It's a combination of all those elements, plus the unseen influence of dozens of crew members. In the end, the final product is an uncontrollable thing that belongs to all of us who work on the show. It is its own thing."
-SHAWN RYAN, Spotlight, Jeff Mariotte and Jean Diaz
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The comic book is especially cool. I will mail these books to you tomorrow, Shibby! Enjoy reading the rest!!