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[ann_leckie]

Paidhi Boy made a short film, all on his own. Then Paidhi Girl made hers. Paidhi Girl did all her own filming and animating (though I acted in it), did all the direction and writing. Yes, she wrote the intertitles! Then, under my supervision, she made the movie on the computer. So this is entirely her work:

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Some time soon we're going to have a talk about focal distance, and lighting.

Reading Gregory Benford's The Martian Race right now, and came across this passage:

Raoul shook his head in disbelief. "After you and Julia turned up those fossil cells, it was DINOSAUR BONES IN MARS ROCKS."

Viktor said, "Of course right away followed by COVER-UP OF ANCIENT DINOSAURS FROM MARS."

I knew it!

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[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

Your kids cursed!

[ann-leckie.livejournal.com]

Paidhi Girl did, yeah. Damn isn't a word I worry about too much. Though she does understand that if she says it at school we'll probably get phone calls.

Actually, I nearly fell out of my chair, when we were talking about ways to get dialogue (or monologue, in this case) into the movie. I suggested intertitles, and told her she should write down the ones she wanted, and think about where they would go. That last one was a given, and I said, "What do you want it to say? Something like, 'Oh, no!' or what?"

And she says, "I think it should say, Damn you, hand!"