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'did I just write that?'
Nov. 15th, 2011 12:34 pmAt that stage of nano where you're scratching your head and going '....seriously, did i just write that?'
Thanking the Flying Spaghetti Monster for HBO's makinggameofthrones.com site - a blog where they burble, squee, stick up tiny interview snippets, the writers stick up blogs about how they started on this, stick up the trailers, stick up the promo images, stick up 'overheard on set' quotes, stick up pictures of the studio cat... Absolute. Bloody. Noodly-appendage Sent. and it's all in order! All tagged! Right from the moment they started filming! Yeah, I'm cribbing timelines, ideas, marketing strategy... the blogs were definitely brilliant, since I can pad like crazy using this when stuck:
'today, dear reader, I tried not to embarass myself in front of Julian Glover and constantly quote Star Wars and Indiana Jones. But. But. Julian Glover.' (this is one of the early blogs on the site.) 'today, dear reader, Neil Marshall is on set directing. We're in caves, it's spooky, it's.... I AM TRYING NOT TO THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE DIRECTED THE DESCENT. HELLLLLP.'
Oh, and these are the 'overheard on set' quotes from Oct 27th:
Can I have a dead Lannister over here?
Oh F**k, this is the bad blood! Where’s the good stuff? The ooze?
Errmm, I think I’ve lost the director.
I can’t decide who’s cuter – the dead guy with the arrows in his chest, or the guy in the ditch with the seeping wound.
But yeah, having made absolutely no pretensions to what it's actually like in a PR stratagem meeting at a big tv studio, I last night I wrote 1,975 words of the Head of PR ranting about them not having a clear image or theme in place that he could use for a basis. 'True Blood: 'sex! More sex! Nakedness! Vampires! The Wire: 'we are cops and gangsters and we do not give a flying fuck about you!' :headdesk: 'You give me superheroes? Superheroes that no-one's heard of? That don't even have a logo? I need a teaser ident - christ, Game of Thrones had politics and paranoia and backstabbing and frozen wastes....'
Tonight I write the trailers and character one sheets. yes, actual descriptions of images. Shaddup. the tumblr posts are things like 'image: actor with a cat on his head'
further interesting bits: I had one chapter where the actors were giving interviews for the making of snippets. these are *considerably* different to the kind of stuff you'd say in normal interviews. i still have the press chapter to come.
Thanking the Flying Spaghetti Monster for HBO's makinggameofthrones.com site - a blog where they burble, squee, stick up tiny interview snippets, the writers stick up blogs about how they started on this, stick up the trailers, stick up the promo images, stick up 'overheard on set' quotes, stick up pictures of the studio cat... Absolute. Bloody. Noodly-appendage Sent. and it's all in order! All tagged! Right from the moment they started filming! Yeah, I'm cribbing timelines, ideas, marketing strategy... the blogs were definitely brilliant, since I can pad like crazy using this when stuck:
'today, dear reader, I tried not to embarass myself in front of Julian Glover and constantly quote Star Wars and Indiana Jones. But. But. Julian Glover.' (this is one of the early blogs on the site.) 'today, dear reader, Neil Marshall is on set directing. We're in caves, it's spooky, it's.... I AM TRYING NOT TO THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT HE DIRECTED THE DESCENT. HELLLLLP.'
Oh, and these are the 'overheard on set' quotes from Oct 27th:
Can I have a dead Lannister over here?
Oh F**k, this is the bad blood! Where’s the good stuff? The ooze?
Errmm, I think I’ve lost the director.
I can’t decide who’s cuter – the dead guy with the arrows in his chest, or the guy in the ditch with the seeping wound.
But yeah, having made absolutely no pretensions to what it's actually like in a PR stratagem meeting at a big tv studio, I last night I wrote 1,975 words of the Head of PR ranting about them not having a clear image or theme in place that he could use for a basis. 'True Blood: 'sex! More sex! Nakedness! Vampires! The Wire: 'we are cops and gangsters and we do not give a flying fuck about you!' :headdesk: 'You give me superheroes? Superheroes that no-one's heard of? That don't even have a logo? I need a teaser ident - christ, Game of Thrones had politics and paranoia and backstabbing and frozen wastes....'
Tonight I write the trailers and character one sheets. yes, actual descriptions of images. Shaddup. the tumblr posts are things like 'image: actor with a cat on his head'
further interesting bits: I had one chapter where the actors were giving interviews for the making of snippets. these are *considerably* different to the kind of stuff you'd say in normal interviews. i still have the press chapter to come.
