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Worked on my Hamlet lines for several hours today. Pretty good, but not there yet. I have most of our Act I down, except for the Hamlet/Gertrude scene and the "Rogue and Peasant Slave" and "How All Occasions" speeches.
I'll have some time in the space tomorrow to work on them some more. We also have to shoot the images for the postcard so I can return the camera we borrowed to its owner.
I was Hamletted out for the day. Came home from The Brick and somehow wound up watching a bunch of episodes of The X Files and Millennium -- all the ones written by Darin Morgan, which are pretty much the best ones, and still all hold up.
But what first made me think of looking at those episodes was checking on YouTube if anyone had posted one of the damnedest acts of an hour-long TV drama I've ever seen, the third part of the final episode of Millennium, season two, "The Time Is Now," which is basically a dialogueless music video for a favorite song of mine.
When this episode first aired, and the show came back from a commercial break, starting the song, I turned angrily to my friend David Mcintyre and said, "No, no, no, you can't just use this song for backing music, if you use this song you have to use the whole thing!" I never imagined that that's exactly what they would do.
I'm still somewhat stunned that a quarter of an episode of a commercial network TV show was given over to a 10-minute long video for a Patti Smith song.
The episode was edited by George R. Potter, who I'm sure was delighted to find the on-set police lights used in one section synched up perfectly with the drum track.
All you need to know going in is at this point in the show's arc, the end of the world may be coming, and the character featured here, Lara Means (Kristen Cloke), who has psychic visions, has been going mad as her visions have turned to the apocalypse, and has hidden herself away in a motel. Series protagonist Frank Black needs to find her, and at the end of the previous act has gotten the information he needs.
I'll have some time in the space tomorrow to work on them some more. We also have to shoot the images for the postcard so I can return the camera we borrowed to its owner.
I was Hamletted out for the day. Came home from The Brick and somehow wound up watching a bunch of episodes of The X Files and Millennium -- all the ones written by Darin Morgan, which are pretty much the best ones, and still all hold up.
But what first made me think of looking at those episodes was checking on YouTube if anyone had posted one of the damnedest acts of an hour-long TV drama I've ever seen, the third part of the final episode of Millennium, season two, "The Time Is Now," which is basically a dialogueless music video for a favorite song of mine.
When this episode first aired, and the show came back from a commercial break, starting the song, I turned angrily to my friend David Mcintyre and said, "No, no, no, you can't just use this song for backing music, if you use this song you have to use the whole thing!" I never imagined that that's exactly what they would do.
I'm still somewhat stunned that a quarter of an episode of a commercial network TV show was given over to a 10-minute long video for a Patti Smith song.
The episode was edited by George R. Potter, who I'm sure was delighted to find the on-set police lights used in one section synched up perfectly with the drum track.
All you need to know going in is at this point in the show's arc, the end of the world may be coming, and the character featured here, Lara Means (Kristen Cloke), who has psychic visions, has been going mad as her visions have turned to the apocalypse, and has hidden herself away in a motel. Series protagonist Frank Black needs to find her, and at the end of the previous act has gotten the information he needs.
