W.O.W.?.!.?

So yesterday I sat and watched the making of Friends.. or rather the making of the 1st episode of Season 6.. Where Monica and Chandler want to get married in a Chapel in Vegas and their plans are sort of .. well lets say.. quelled by Ross and Rachel’s decision to do the same!

While watching the making I realized the amazing attention that directors, art directors, producers, prop managers, sound and light directors and make up artists pay to detail..

I never even noticed it but they apparently change the display of teas and coffees in the shelves every two to three episodes because “after all which coffee shop is stagnant” and that they debate for hours over which shade of marker ink should Ross and Rachel have on their faces the morning after they put it there.. (when in actuality the show is being shot 6 months later..)

They have special sound artists who create noises such as heals running over cement and then the same heals running over carpet and enact is as the actors perform, in complete sync with them to create the most life like and natural sounds.

.. Its amazing how many cameras are focused on the actors to catch every angle of their act and how scene by scene each one is joined together to flow in the most continuous manner, in a way that the audience sees the best lighting, body movement and area of the studio.

The thing I found most amazing was how much writers improvise while the scenes are being shot. Even after spending countless hours trying to come up with a script, working till the wee hours of the morning and going back and forth on every scene, some scenes fall flat on their meter, being declared as “not funny enough”.. and then while the cameras are rolling writers come together to come up with funnier lines..

I guess the point of this blog.. is to sort of pay a tribute to the 1000’s of people who work very hard and tirelessly.. to bring every episode to our television screens..