Re: Dramatis personnae--Biggest waste of space


"P. Taine" <user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 28 Jun 2009 09:40:47 -0500, "Ken from Chicago"
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In article <KLwJFw.1M5w@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
djheydt@xxxxxxxxxxx (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote:

You are now going
to interrupt the story, wreck the suspension of disbelief
even further, by overlaying maps on the screen?

Yes, it would be an interruption in a movie, but in a book, I WANT
MAPS 8-)

--
Mary Loomer Oliver (aka Erilar)

You can't reason with someone whose first line of argument is
that reason doesn't count. --Isaac Asimov

Erilar's Cave Annex: http://www.chibardun.net/~erilarlo

Maps in movies and tv shows so totally work!

THE ADVENTURES OF BRISCO COUNTY JR used it beautifully to show Our Heroes
travelling from town to town chasing the villain or the macguffin of the
episode.

The way it should be done is zoom out from a scene to show the a map where
the scene is shown, traveling to some location and zoom in there.

Classic movies and tv shows in the first half of the 20th century often
had
a shot of Our Heroes flying in some plane or on horseback going to a map
where an animated line travels to some destination.


TV shows? We were rather early adopters, and we got our first TV set in
1948.
What TV shows from the first half of the 20th century are you referring
to????

My bad, I meant to append "and middle of", to refer to movies of the first
half of the 20th century and tv shows in the 50s and 60s. Of course back
then, maps were also a cost saving move so you didn't have to film (as much)
on location.

It works great in setting up where everyone is when they are spread out.

-- Ken from Chicago (who recalls many a montage of Our Heroes in some scene
interspersed with an animated line being drawn on from one location to
another on a map)


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