Talk:SNL Digital Shorts
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[edit] Sorting
I think these shorts should be listed by date, not by title. It just seems to make more sense for an encyclopedic article - episodes of shows are listed by date. Without objection, I'll make the change in a few days. Alvis 06:00, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
- You have my support. -- Viewdrix 12:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Response section?
Can anyone find criticism or praise for the shorts? They gained plenty of publicity after Lazy Sunday, but overall, no one's really stated whether they're good on the whole or not, quality-wise or for-the-show-wise. The closest I've seen is a "debate" in Entertainment Weekly that The Lonely Island put on their website, but I hesitate to use that because it's a scan of a magazine, which may be slightly illegal. -- Viewdrix 12:13, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Quick thing.
I accidentally clicked enter early, but what I meant to say in an edit summary is that for consistency, let's name people in the Short if they're revealed to be playing themselves. Otherwise the entire casts of Shorts will start to be listed, which would be horrible in cases such as The Tangent. -- Viewdrix 19:58, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Digital"?
Why are these called "Digital" shorts? In what sense are they digital? Does this mean they were produced using digital video cameras and PC- or Mac-based software? The first time I saw the introduction to one of these, I was expecting computer animation or something.
Could an explanation of this term be added to the article, maybe with the reason "digital" shorts are different from other shorts that SNL has done for years?
- No idea. Guesses? The show went digital/HDTV this season, the season where Digital Shorts began. I personally know they are put together using fairly standard personal computer editing software because of The Lonely Island's comments and past, but I doubt that has anything to do with it. -- Viewdrix 00:54, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
- The guy who asked the question is right. All of the shooting is done with consumer grade DV cameras and PCs/Macs. I remember the interview after Lazy Sunday where they said the shooting was done in a couple days and edited on a laptop bought on Craigslist. --waffle iron talk 01:06, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
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- I added an explaination in the opening paragraph and cited it. --waffle iron talk 01:18, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Lonely Island responsible?
I don't believe the Lonely Island fellows are responsible for all the digital shorts. I can recall seeing SNL Digital Shorts back in the 90s. A quick Googling shows at least some references to SNL Digital Shorts before they joined the cast: [1]
- There have always been filmed segments on the show, like the New York City Confessions this season, or the Steve Martin opening last season. However, it seems those labelled "Digital Shorts" are at least directed by Akiva Shaffer, and many written and produced by The Lonely Island. The only proof against it is one semi-anonymous Internet user who may just be referring to a previous filmed segment as a "Digital Short". -- Viewdrix 15:16, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Dick in a Box" (or whatever it's actually called)
Now that the NY Times has written a lengthy, in-depth article on the sketch, it's been viewed something like four million times, and almost every well-known blog (including those that could be considered reliable has mentioned/written about it, I think it's time for "Dick in a Box" to get its own article. Anyone agree? -- Kicking222 14:37, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
- The NY Times article focuses more on the network releasing an uncensored sketch onto the Internet rather than the Short's popularity itself. I think we should wait at least another week to see where the popularity leads, if it becomes referenced in other media (though it'd be much harder to quote it like Lazy Sunday was), etc. Lazy Sunday's article was made 4 days after originally airing, yes, but it was nothing more than a short, short summary and the lyrics for a while. -- Viewdrix 21:54, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bleeped by censors: what it means.
Here's the thing. Yes, producers and the network allowed the song to be bleeped on air to follow standards and practices. The censors, however, are the people actually in the control room pressing the "bleep" button between the time something is live in-studio, and when it's aired seconds later across the country. Now, the important thing about the wording is that to say the producers bleeped the short would mean they prepared the short with bleeps already in before showing it to the audience, when the laugh track on the uncensored video implies that they did not; instead, the video was shown uncensored to the audience, and was bleeped by the censors before airing on television seconds later. -- Viewdrix 03:10, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Images
I think we should put screenshots of the shorts in the table.- JustPhil
00:51, 30 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] No more table...
I think each short should have their own section. As opposed to the table. It'd be easier to organize and we could go into more detail. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 207.224.53.218 (talk) 01:43, 23 January 2007 (UTC).
- I fear that by doing that and going into detail over each one, we'd find the article far too long in less than a year. Not near every Digital Short is worth going into detail, especially in terms of individual short popularity. Going into detail about a sketch just because it's a Digital Short seems unnecessary. -- Viewdrix 02:03, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
