Noted FFF.net Member Wins Firefly Script Auction
POSTED BY: DonCoat
UPDATED: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 12:41
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Quote:Ditto that!
Originally posted by zoid:
I love what you've done with River's (well actually Kaylee's, I suspect) ball and jacks. That was my favorite piece of symbolism from the show...
And... definitely Kaylee's. To wit:
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Originally posted by ecgordon:
I looked up something in the Serenity Visual Companion the other day and noticed that spelling of gorramn. If I am not mistaken, all of the captions on the Firefly dvds have it spelled without the n, and the next time I watch the BDM I'll leave the captions on to check for that.
The DVD captions are far from accurate in a lot of cases. Sometimes whole lines are completely wrong! It's actually funny sometimes if you know what the script actually says; you'd think whoever captioned it would've proofread or fact-checked, or whatever needed to be done a lot more thoroughly than they did.
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Well the shooting scripts have the following:
Gorramn
Gorram
Gorrammit
So choose what you like best and go with it.
It's the future, so spell it anyway you like. Only Simon would worry about the appropriate spelling of an inappropriate word. 
Oh, and, as has been noted, damn shiny of you to post the wonderfulness DonCoat!
BWAH!
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I know this thread has not been used in a few months, but I would like to add my 4 cents.
Congrats Doncoat, thanks for sharing.
I worked in the motion picture industry for a few years and I thought I would share what I know about scripts and procedures.
A master shooting script is created from many draft revisions and this is the starting point for the production of the film or TV show. This is called the final shooting script or the final draft. They are always printed on one side with wide margins to leave room for notes. Location, scene descriptions and dialog are each formatted differently to make them stand out.
Once the original is printed, usually from a laser printer, it is copied on standard white 3 hole punched paper on an office copy machine. Each copy is bound with the hole fasteners and a copy is given to all the actors and to all the crew that need a copy to do their jobs. If there is sensitive information in the script, partial scripts may be printed, with the critical parts added in revisions later to those who need them, when they need them. (like Alan's BDM script ending at page 100)
Most people keep the script in the original binding, but some will put them in loose leaf binders for added protection.
Any revisions made during shooting after the distrubution of the original script are printed on different colored paper, and only those pages that are revised. Each revision is a different color, starting with green, blue, etc. (I don't remember the exact standard sequence, but there are 12 standard colors) When someone gets their colored revision pages they replace the page currently in the script with the colored one. White or colored pages are replaced with the revision pages. If a revision is longer than one page, the page number is appended with a letter to preserve the original page numbers. The second reason for using colored pages, it broadcasts to everyone in the production who sees someone else's script that a revsion has been made and they need to pick up their copy.
Script revisons are not made once shooting ends, while the show is being edited, though decisions may be made to drop scenes or even lines for time, flow or continuity needs.
In preserving a script, remember it is printed on ordanary office paper with a toner based ink from a copier. Your enemies are heat, as 100 degrees will cause the toner to soften and make the pages stick, sunlight, because of fading and making the paper brittle, and moisture, causing the paper to rot. If you truely want it to last, take it to an archivist who will treat the paper with an anti-acid bath then coat the paper to prevent its deteration. Though keeping it in a dark, cool and dry place will keep it intact for quite a few years.
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Thanks for that info, Hera7. I'd pretty much deduced/assumed what the revision procedures were, but it's great to get an insider's knowledge.
I've thought about seeing an archivist and getting the paper "neutralized". Now I'll have to look into it further and find out about cost and such. Hey, if I find one who's a Browncoat, maybe I'll get a discount. (Or maybe I'll never get it back!)
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