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Skriven 2007-03-01 18:47:04 av Amy Guskin (16257.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: JMS spotlight at NYCC
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>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 09:19:50 -0500, Richard Fallstrom wrote
(in article <010320070619503674%rick.fallstrom@donobi.net>):

> In article <0001HW.C20C406401F3A26AF0182648@news.verizon.net>, Amy
> Guskin <aisling@fjordstone.com> wrote:
> 
>>>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 08:20:37 -0500, robin.moss@gmail.com wrote
>> (in article <1172668836.861539.12970@q2g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>):
>> 
>>> On Feb 27, 3:45 pm, "Mac Breck" <macthevor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> "John W. Kennedy" <John.W.Kenn...@gmail.com> wrote in 
>>>> messagenews:1172544488.317642.22620@j27g2000cwj.googlegroups.com...
>>>> 
>>>>> On Feb 25, 9:57 pm, "Mac Breck" <macthevor...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> Thanks for looking that up and providing the URL and definitions.
>>>> I'm
>>>>>> surprised that there was an entry for it.  Seems too specialized,
>>>> sort
>>>>>> of TV Producer Greek.
>>>> 
>>>>> Not at all. It's standard terminology in dramatic criticism, less
>>>>> common than "tragedy" or "climax", but more common (at least,
>>>>> nowadays) than "anagnorisis" or "peripeteia".
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks to both John and Robin for responding, but to me (an electrical
>>>> engineer/DBA), it's Greek, and I'm not fluent in Greek. ;-)  The
>>>> terminology in dramatic criticism or dramatic production is not an area
>>>> I've explored much.  When the word "set-piece" was used, the only thing
>>>> that came to mind, the only "hit" I got, was something "physical" on a
>>>> "set" that maybe stood out, like the Hugo in SiL.  Beyond that, I was
>>>> like Londo looking at a naked Vorlon.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Fair enough. Though I should point out that I'm a computer programmer:
>>> this isn't any kind of professional knowledge. For me it's just a
>>> commonly used phrase. I could have said something like: "Did you see
>>> the latest Bond film? All the usual big action set-pieces were present
>>> and correct, but it actually had a really emotional story and some
>>> good acting too, for a change", and I'd be surprised if anyone didn't
>>> understand what I meant. <<
>> 
>> See, and this is exactly why _I_ was confused (can't speak for Mac, 
>> obviously), and why I questioned Jan about it.  I kept hearing about a set 
>> piece that was to _precede_ the credits, and generally you think of set 
>> pieces as large, showy scenes that can be singled out and identified (like 
>> saying "the pod-racing scene from Episode 1"), that take up a chunk of time 
>> in the film, and which generally wouldn't precede the credit sequence, I 
>> don't think.  Anyway, it's abundantly clear now (again, to _me_).
>> 
>> Amy
> 
> Hmmm. I am beginning to see that a "set-piece" is what I use to call a
> "lead-in" which is that first bit before the credits which whets the
> mental appetite to see the rest of the episode.  <<

No, that's the teaser you're talking about.

Amy
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