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Post by jeeeprose on Jan 25, 2013 14:51:38 GMT -5
thanks Ryan--I loved the pics of the SOUNDSTAGE. I dont understand what the drawing of the house was for. The house was emply when we went there--was it built like that in the soundstage??? Marilyn M
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Post by Tonyray on Jan 25, 2013 21:08:32 GMT -5
thanks Ryan--I loved the pics of the SOUNDSTAGE. I dont understand what the drawing of the house was for. The house was emply when we went there--was it built like that in the soundstage??? Marilyn M The house you saw was used for exterior shots only the interior shots were done on a sound stage. The drawing it what the second floor mock up looked like on the sound stage.
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Post by jeeeprose on Jan 27, 2013 15:12:52 GMT -5
I guess my question is: was the INTERIOR of the house in the soundstage just as it appears on the show with upstairs & downstairs OR was it just separate little fake rooms (side by side) as it appeared in the pictures of the soundstage that u posted??? Marilyn Maine I m "obsessed" w this soundstage thing!!!
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Post by Tonyray on Jan 27, 2013 16:47:26 GMT -5
I guess my question is: was the INTERIOR of the house in the soundstage just as it appears on the show with upstairs & downstairs OR was it just separate little fake rooms (side by side) as it appeared in the pictures of the soundstage that u posted??? Marilyn Maine I m "obsessed" w this soundstage thing!!! The first and second floor would have been separate sets not on top of one another and just walls with no ceiling unless need for the shot (remember in the nurse when Mary Ellen was jumping on the table when she found was going to nursing school their was no ceiling in the shot and the walls look like 12 foot tall). I remember hearing the stairs from the first floor just going to landing out of sight and the actors would wait there until they were suppose to come down. like when the kids were called to supper.
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Post by jeeeprose on Jan 28, 2013 16:59:27 GMT -5
thanks--so when they filmed the upstairs, it was a different set?
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Post by JeriJet on Jan 28, 2013 19:28:37 GMT -5
thanks--so when they filmed the upstairs, it was a different set? Not really -- it sorta depends on how the word set is being used..... like whether you're "on set" and can be taped/filmed, or "off set" and not in an area where filming/taping is being done.... On a huge soundstage, there are several areas set up for different parts of the "set." Parts of the upstairs can be there, as well as parts of the downstairs, or parts of Ike's, etc., etc. It can all be considered the same "set." Hope that makes sense. And, of course, I'm going back several years and do not really know what terminology is used today..... One chuckle -- it's always tickled me that I don't think they started using the term "film" instead of "movie" until tape was being used instead of film !!!
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Post by River on Jan 28, 2013 22:47:23 GMT -5
I don't know but seeing the soundstage kind of ruins it for me. I like believing in a real house, real barn, and Grandpa in the garden.
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Post by JeriJet on Jan 29, 2013 17:31:36 GMT -5
I don't know but seeing the soundstage kind of ruins it for me. I like believing in a real house, real barn, and Grandpa in the garden. When watching any show/production, the idea of a soundstage is really no different than thinking the characters are actual people..... try not to let it get to you -- embrace the moment!
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Post by mtdawg on Jan 29, 2013 22:39:42 GMT -5
Tonyray that site is awesome! More info on the porches came from that site............. "There were two identical porches. One was on the exterior of the house on the Warner Bros. backlot; the other was part of the interior set on the soundstage. The one on the soundstage was used for all night sequences. The choice of which one to use for day sequences depended on whether the scene on the porch connected to activity in the yard or was connected to activity that flowed from the Walton living room."
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Post by kazk on Jan 30, 2013 20:41:28 GMT -5
I went on a tour of Paramount studios while I was over there for the reunion. The photos show exactly what the soundstage is like from the outside. We were taken inside one of the soundstages for a comedy show I'm not familiar with but there were 3 main sets inside and they were reasonably large sets. There were three apartments in this show and there was a set for each one. They each had a living room, kitchen and bed space, and there was a hallway space which could be converted into an elevator when needed. The living room, kitchen and bedrooms were all in the one large space but when a camera is on them it looks like they are individual rooms. There is no ceiling so they can have their lighting above the sets. Whilst the sets were fairly large they weren't huge and we were told that the cameras make the spaces look much bigger than they really are.
As Ryan said there are often stairs which just lead nowhere. You can climb the stairs and then you wait at the top until the director says "Cut!". It's really very interesting.
Many of the spaces they have get decorated differently constantly so that the one space looks entirely different. When I was there they were shooting their Christmas episodes. There were Christmas trees and presents all over the place and one of the street backlots we visited for this show had snow falling and the poor actors were all bundled up in winter woolies. If anyone remembers the weather in LA at the time of the reunion, it was extremely hot!!
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