DVD Commentary on Green Eyed Monste
DVD Commentary on Green Eyed Monster שווה לקרוא. החברה האלה מצחיקים Technical difficulties prevented the live DVD commentary on Green Eyed Monster which they had planned to do, but the panel rolled gracefully with the punches and just pulled their chairs over to do more Q&A. Kemper pointed out that this was a model of what making the show is like -- they plan something, discover at the last minute that it won't work, and immediately come up with an alternate plan. Ben on the same theme: "That schedule you just handed me is really pretty, but come Tuesday it will be meaningless." They always have a Waterloo: "you can't go forward or back, you're like Napoleon stuck in the mud." So they go sideways. Claudia on the same theme: the call sheet lists all the scenes they're supposed to shoot that day and who's in them, etc. But they get to a point where they just say "roll film on the call sheet, and then we can say we shot it". Kemper: Claudia and Ben beat the crap out of him for the season ender -- he wrote about the experience for his column in issue #3 of the Farscape magazine. As they were beginning to plan the episode, Ben said, "I wanna do a show for Claud and Lani." Claudia re Ben: "He always talks about me saving his ass; I just spend all my time looking at it." They were able to shoot real drama, since there were no prosthetics in the major roles for this episode. Stark and Rygel had only a minimal presence. The working title was 'Das Budong'. Claudia on making changes to lines Ben wrote: "Okay, I'll just change it on set when he's in a good mood, someone get Ben a diet coke..." Tony Tilse: Ben made up the term "Tilse-vision", for when Aeryn and Talyn were connected. They shot that effect with handicams, little handheld cameras. They just ran around set with them, having fun. Kemper: Ben brought in a story with John being vulnerable, outnumbered, one human to two Peacekeepers Ben: "Wasn't Lani great, in Green Eyed Monster?" Of all the scenes in that episode, Lani loves most John's long walk down the corridor, after watching the faked recording chip. Tony Tilse likes to sneak on-set to snurch a camera, four episodes later, in order to shoot "one more take! one more take!" pickup shots. They all gave Ben hell about the script, simply to tease him. Kemper even called Claudia one day at home, and asked her to one day on the set say, "who wrote this shit???" Regarding the scene Talyn faked to freak out John: in Australia, contracts are very specifically written with clauses about what an actor will and won't do on a production. They have to be notified of exactly what a questionable scene will entail, and the actor and director have a detailed discussion of it. Claudia does not do nude scenes, so she looked at the script and told the director that since it wasn't *actually* Aeryn, "you need to get another girl". So they got a stand-in -- except no one told her she was there specifically to do a nude scene. Tony Tilse: "It's extremely uncomfortable, if you've ever tried to talk someone into taking their clothes off." The actress said okay, however, and so she and Lani carefully negotiated exactly how the scene would be played. It was a closed set, but the head of the bed was a mirrored surface, letting everyone see her front, so they stuck duct tape across her chest (!!!). On this day, of all days, Lani's wife and daughter were visiting the set; obviously, he didn't want them on the set, so Claudia nabbed 'em in the hallway and took them down the hall for a cup of tea... The name of the Tac-5 torpedo in GEM was a riff on "Take 5", to which Ben was listening as he wrote the script. The special effects crew made the torpedos so that they actually fired. Everyone on set was wearing protective gear and standing behind plexiglass, and Claudia's looking at the torpedo and thinking, "I'm on the wrong side of that wall..." The torpedo was sooo heavy, five seconds was like two hours; they had to block it so that Ben could help Claudia support it. On other episodes - Aeryn's night vision in Liars, Guns & Money was also done with Tilse-vision. The pyrotechnic folks always want to blow stuff up; Tilse is going, "hey, the sets are made of plywood and styrofoam -- we'd die in five minutes if there were a fire." For the big shootout scene, they shut off all the studio lights, to shoot in the dark. The three actors couldn't see, and there were several injuries (Grip, Claudia). While shooting the second sequence, John Adam (Bekhesh) whacked Claudia right in the face, and she wound up sitting on the side of the set with a diet coke on her eye. A pickup scene was proposed for Throne For A Loss: Aeryn & D'Argo standing by a lake, Aeryn sees 6-8 armored soldiers on the other side of it, she takes off her clothes, swims across the lake, takes out the soldiers naked, swims back, and walks off. Needless to say, this scene was not shot -- but while Claudia was describing it, Ben was slouching down in his seat, covering part of his face, and the clear implication was that he had written that bit. When Claudia unzipped her costume in Out of Their Minds, she thought, what would Ben say? The first thing that came to mind was "ooohhhh, Mama!" [Ben tries to look innocent.] Ben: "[maybe we need] a panel on the sex in Farscape..." Ben on Meltdown: "That script has never been anywhere near my house, the rushes have never been anywhere near my house. I still haven't recovered from that episode."
DVD Commentary on Green Eyed Monster שווה לקרוא. החברה האלה מצחיקים Technical difficulties prevented the live DVD commentary on Green Eyed Monster which they had planned to do, but the panel rolled gracefully with the punches and just pulled their chairs over to do more Q&A. Kemper pointed out that this was a model of what making the show is like -- they plan something, discover at the last minute that it won't work, and immediately come up with an alternate plan. Ben on the same theme: "That schedule you just handed me is really pretty, but come Tuesday it will be meaningless." They always have a Waterloo: "you can't go forward or back, you're like Napoleon stuck in the mud." So they go sideways. Claudia on the same theme: the call sheet lists all the scenes they're supposed to shoot that day and who's in them, etc. But they get to a point where they just say "roll film on the call sheet, and then we can say we shot it". Kemper: Claudia and Ben beat the crap out of him for the season ender -- he wrote about the experience for his column in issue #3 of the Farscape magazine. As they were beginning to plan the episode, Ben said, "I wanna do a show for Claud and Lani." Claudia re Ben: "He always talks about me saving his ass; I just spend all my time looking at it." They were able to shoot real drama, since there were no prosthetics in the major roles for this episode. Stark and Rygel had only a minimal presence. The working title was 'Das Budong'. Claudia on making changes to lines Ben wrote: "Okay, I'll just change it on set when he's in a good mood, someone get Ben a diet coke..." Tony Tilse: Ben made up the term "Tilse-vision", for when Aeryn and Talyn were connected. They shot that effect with handicams, little handheld cameras. They just ran around set with them, having fun. Kemper: Ben brought in a story with John being vulnerable, outnumbered, one human to two Peacekeepers Ben: "Wasn't Lani great, in Green Eyed Monster?" Of all the scenes in that episode, Lani loves most John's long walk down the corridor, after watching the faked recording chip. Tony Tilse likes to sneak on-set to snurch a camera, four episodes later, in order to shoot "one more take! one more take!" pickup shots. They all gave Ben hell about the script, simply to tease him. Kemper even called Claudia one day at home, and asked her to one day on the set say, "who wrote this shit???" Regarding the scene Talyn faked to freak out John: in Australia, contracts are very specifically written with clauses about what an actor will and won't do on a production. They have to be notified of exactly what a questionable scene will entail, and the actor and director have a detailed discussion of it. Claudia does not do nude scenes, so she looked at the script and told the director that since it wasn't *actually* Aeryn, "you need to get another girl". So they got a stand-in -- except no one told her she was there specifically to do a nude scene. Tony Tilse: "It's extremely uncomfortable, if you've ever tried to talk someone into taking their clothes off." The actress said okay, however, and so she and Lani carefully negotiated exactly how the scene would be played. It was a closed set, but the head of the bed was a mirrored surface, letting everyone see her front, so they stuck duct tape across her chest (!!!). On this day, of all days, Lani's wife and daughter were visiting the set; obviously, he didn't want them on the set, so Claudia nabbed 'em in the hallway and took them down the hall for a cup of tea... The name of the Tac-5 torpedo in GEM was a riff on "Take 5", to which Ben was listening as he wrote the script. The special effects crew made the torpedos so that they actually fired. Everyone on set was wearing protective gear and standing behind plexiglass, and Claudia's looking at the torpedo and thinking, "I'm on the wrong side of that wall..." The torpedo was sooo heavy, five seconds was like two hours; they had to block it so that Ben could help Claudia support it. On other episodes - Aeryn's night vision in Liars, Guns & Money was also done with Tilse-vision. The pyrotechnic folks always want to blow stuff up; Tilse is going, "hey, the sets are made of plywood and styrofoam -- we'd die in five minutes if there were a fire." For the big shootout scene, they shut off all the studio lights, to shoot in the dark. The three actors couldn't see, and there were several injuries (Grip, Claudia). While shooting the second sequence, John Adam (Bekhesh) whacked Claudia right in the face, and she wound up sitting on the side of the set with a diet coke on her eye. A pickup scene was proposed for Throne For A Loss: Aeryn & D'Argo standing by a lake, Aeryn sees 6-8 armored soldiers on the other side of it, she takes off her clothes, swims across the lake, takes out the soldiers naked, swims back, and walks off. Needless to say, this scene was not shot -- but while Claudia was describing it, Ben was slouching down in his seat, covering part of his face, and the clear implication was that he had written that bit. When Claudia unzipped her costume in Out of Their Minds, she thought, what would Ben say? The first thing that came to mind was "ooohhhh, Mama!" [Ben tries to look innocent.] Ben: "[maybe we need] a panel on the sex in Farscape..." Ben on Meltdown: "That script has never been anywhere near my house, the rushes have never been anywhere near my house. I still haven't recovered from that episode."