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« on: April 29, 2004, 07:09:45 PM »
Presumably she's on to promote "Third Watch" - but we'll soon see...
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I think we're adverse to the idea of THESE characters and performers being younger. We were children when we met these characters, and now we're grown-ups. That requires a complete change of perspective and perhaps we resent that.
I think fresh opinion is useful. Doesn't mean it's always right, but it's useful. If you're working on something and absorbed with it, you automatically have total tunnel vision... particularly on pilots, where deadlines and crucial decisions are happening all the time. It's healthy to have the concepts and ideas challenged - if the work's good enough, it stands on its own two feet unassisted, as it should.
Any mass-media product has to find an audience - the focus group is no different from an audience greeting "Dark Shadows" on their TV sets come the fall. Testing is important, but it's not a question of changing stuff fundamentally to fit an audience. It's an altogether more subtle process, and the results can easily be as much a positive contribution as a negative one.
Does that mean I like what focus groups do and all the decisions they make? Not by any stretch of the imagination. But I think they're probably an unavoidable and necessary evil.
I really don't get what all the fuss is about.
Never forget that this is called show business.
Perhaps, we misunderstand each other here.
My guess is they've already had a focus group or two about the show or it would not have been even considered for a pilot.
I just can just tell you as a business person, there is no way, no how, I would ever bring a product to the market without doing some kind of test or survey for it. It would be complete and total suicide.
I also think you make some assumptions here that any tweaking by a focus group suggestion is all bad. I don't necessarily find that to be the case 100% of the time. When I performed the survey I did when I started my business, it helped me determine how to focus my service. What the concerns were, etc.
and the show for the WB is "Jack and Bobby." No mention of DS or LIS either one. What does everybody here make of that?
Trying to predict how the WB will make its final decision is like predicting how a jury might find a verdict.
If the WB rejects the DS pilot, they would in essence be saying NO to John Wells. Despite Wells having a developmental deal with the WB, he may not be so inclined in the future pitch quality projects to the WB and instead perhaps shop them to another network. You would think it would be in the WB's best interest to keep him happy
I looked in vain for a "print" feature somewhere on the IM page
Immediately before these backslashes, and in the middle of my notes which were now cut off, was this strange message:
FHYPERLINK "../Indexes/timeline.html"
Tonight I called the university tech desk, and they said the file had somehow become corrupted. To my dismay, they said there is no way to recover it. I find that difficult to believe since we hear so much about how nothing is ever really gone from your computer no matter how you try to delete it.
Anyway, the moral of my story is a warning, I guess, not to copy and paste text from the html versions of the pages on this site!
No, artists shouldn't have to die poor. But on the other hand, if they choose to compromise the art they make for the sake of market value, then they aren't artists...they're merchants. You simply can't have it both ways. The moment you change what you create solely for the sake of increasing it's monetary worth, you have ceased to create art and become a manufacturer of product.