Content tagged with “television”

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Camera Blocking
Explanation
January 20, 2025
206

“This is the precise placing of actors in a film scene. It’s a rehearsal process where actors decide and plan where they will be at each point in the scene, and where they will move during the scene, in relation to the camera. It’s important because an actor has to be in frame, usually facing the…”

Colorist
Stuff I Looked Up
Explanation
October 19, 2024
324

“Broadly speaking, this is an artist who applies or manipulates the color of media. In comic books, the original drawings were done in black-and-white, and a colorist then applied color to them. So the lines of the drawing and the color were done by two separate artists. (See a good example on the…”

Diegesis
Stuff I Looked Up
Explanation
September 11, 2024
541

“In narrative story-telling, diegesis refers to things that are experienced by the characters within the story. Non-diegesis refers to things that are experienced by the audience, not the characters. Example, if watching a movie: Background music coming from a band playing in a bar as part of the…”

Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing: A Memoir
Deane’s Library
Book Review
December 25, 2022
610

“Matthew Perry is lucky to be alive. In this book, he recounts his story of addiction, from alcohol as a teenager, through to pills as an adult. As the book starts, he’s in rehab, in great pain. Opiates cause constipation, and he’s so constipated that his bowel ruptures. He almost dies. He spends…”

Moonlighting: An Oral History
Deane’s Library
Book Review
February 1, 2024
1400

“Moonlighting was finally streaming on Hulu, so I started binge-watching it. It was a show that aired during my teenage years, so I have vague memories of it. It was an ‘adult’ show, and I somewhat remember my mother not approving. I saw a scattering of episodes, but never string them together….”

Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live
Deane’s Library
Book Review
February 1, 2025
842

“This is an excellent, detailed history of the first 10 years of Saturday Night Live . I was surprised it only covered the first 10 years, but then I further surprised to find that it was written in 1986. (Apparently this book was a tell-all scandal back then. I was reading the Wikipedia page for…”

You Never Know: A Memoir
Deane’s Library
Book Review
May 18, 2024
524

“I enjoyed this quite a bit, largely because it felt like it was written by Tom Selleck himself. I was nervous when I saw a co-author credit, because I was afraid it was going to be glossy and sanitized, but it’s not. In fact, it’s even a little awkward in places. It genuinely feels like it was…”