I Am Supplementary Bonus Material

Over 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 this, I was told, was for documentary purposes.

I just found out that the documentary is going to follow the show.

To be more precise, the mini-series is geared for an 8 episode run, with the time slot being one hour. However, the reality is, a one hour time slot is actually only about 45 minutes of actual content, the rest is commercials. So they’ve decided to shoot for 8 half hour episodes, followed by 15 minutes of documentary footage about the creation of the show.

One of the really bizarre things about this is, me and the other writer kept getting taken aside and asked about our opinions of the show and what our dramatic/narrative potential is going to be like. I have, of course, no idea what any of the answers to these questions would be, and so just make it up on the spot and hope it sounds at least reasonably intelligent, or, failing that, reasonably pretentious, as that’s what most people will expect anyway. That’s done mostly because it would scare people to think they are giving me money if my answer always comes out, “Beats the hell out of me, I’m clueless here.”

Still, it’s pretty amusing to think that after each episode ends in this series, at some point people will have to deal with me waxing pretentious about the creative process, when in fact, it really IS as simple as, “Uh… I’m just making it up as I go along, and hoping it holds together.”

Now I’m wondering if maybe I shouldn’t ask about getting some this stuff burned to DVD or something…

Oh, and speaking of movies and supplementary materials, for those of you who are local, or not local and just curious, some guy who works at Amazon has compiled a list of movies that he has had returned to him from Singapore by the government. If you’re even remotely curious about what movies are considered too evil to be viewed by humans in Singapore, here you go.