Wayne Santos | Toronto-based writer and game journalist
Goodbye RehearsalsAfter finally getting the synopsis, the powers that be decided that Thursday would be the last of the rehearsals. It was a vaguely maudlin affair in that after hanging out with the actors all this time, it was a bit weird to know we weren’t going to be seeing them anymore. But it also [...]
Firing Of The GunThe producer hauled us in and gave us the filtered totality of the comments from all the other Powers That Be, and the changes were surprisingly not as a bad as the other writer and I had feared. Most of our stuff survived intact, at least for the outline. Now we have [...]
Synopsis FunSo we finished it the synopsis.It took all day, and we ended up missing the rehearsal for that day, since the mandate was to get it finished on that day. Whether it was any good or not was another matter entirely, but oh well…
Long Day Part IIFirst and foremost, I am 100% legal once again. I went down to the Canadian High Commission and picked up my nice, shiny new passport, which means I can get legally married because I have an official document of identity that I can flash to prove that I exist.Then I went [...]
Looooong DayI thought it was just going to be a quick meeting in the afternoon to talk about the mini-series, and that the rehearsals were cancelled for the evening. I am a complete idiot.The meeting lasted for a few hours. The structure I wrote and the structure of the other writer still need [...]
Fearful ActorsToday was vaguely satisfying in a mean spirited sort of way because we finally got to see the actors sweat a little.Now that every actor has gone through the motions and more or less found a character, it’s time for the improv sessions to move into the next phase. What that next phase [...]
The Writers Talk Too Much
This is the general impression I am beginning to form after a few days of this “Watch rehearsal, comment on what you have seen” stuff that’s been going on with the mini-series. At least, I think I talk too much.
The documenters have been taking me and the other writer aside and [...]
DVDs, Wedding Stuff & OutlinesIn what is an unabashedly geeky moment of pure SF Joy, I saw the review on IGN for the Battlestar Galactica season 1 set. I was expecting the review to be good and it was. But what’s more important is that the review means the set is now available [...]
I Am Supplementary Bonus MaterialOver the last few days as this drama project has been going on, there have been several meetings, and two rehearsals. At all of these events, there was always someone with either an expensive DV Camera, or a full on, broadcast quality video cam that would shoot the proceedings. All of [...]
Solemnizers Are Not Called “Jo”I still get kind of freaked out by the Singapore title for people legally empowered to marry others off. I mean, “Solemnizer”… It sounds like a professional mourner or something. Somebody that stands there with a dour face and makes deep, throaty grunts with a quick nod or shake of the [...]