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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 410088" data-attributes="member: 27">My curiosity about Beyond the Gates is more logistical than creative.&nbsp; As the first soap to be launched in nearly 25 years, I want to see their production model and how it looks onscreen.&nbsp; They have the advantage of starting from scratch--that is, they&#039;re not inheriting a studio set-up that has been in place for decades that is too hard to tweak or replace.&nbsp; No other daytime soap of consequence has ever been produced outside of New York or LA.&nbsp; Will there be a notable difference in &quot;feel&quot;?&nbsp; Will it even have that &quot;soap opera effect&quot; of videotape-trying-to-look-like-film? (Other soaps have tried to end that look but ultimately went back to it).&nbsp; Will there be an initial &quot;outlay&quot; of cash that eventually evaporates?&nbsp; In other words, will they have a splashy start, only to end up looking cheap as Capitol did in the 1980s? A lot of the &quot;look&quot; of the series will hinge on what the facilities in Atlanta will be like, such as having access to backlot-type shell buildings that allows them to do exteriors without going on location.&nbsp; Will the exterior work they do in ATL &quot;pass&quot; for Baltimore?&nbsp; Or will they be just as studio-bound as traditional soaps?&nbsp; The reboot of Dynasty was done at Eagle Rock Studios in the Atlanta area and they had nice, large sets and availability of many technological &quot;cheats&quot; to make things look much more high-end than one would expect.&nbsp; The overall look to me would match anything they could have mounted in LA but it was done much cheaper.So I&#039;ll peek in more for the &quot;business end&quot; rather than curiosity about the plotlines, casting, etc., mostly because this production might come up with better ways of doing things that could be adaptable to the current shows and aid in their survival.&nbsp; It could very well end up like a &quot;Soap Lab&quot; where they formulate ways to drag the medium into the 21st century.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 410088, member: 27"] My curiosity about [I]Beyond the Gates [/I]is more logistical than creative. As the first soap to be launched in nearly 25 years, I want to see their production model and how it looks onscreen. They have the advantage of starting from scratch--that is, they're not inheriting a studio set-up that has been in place for decades that is too hard to tweak or replace. No other daytime soap of consequence has ever been produced outside of New York or LA. Will there be a notable difference in "feel"? Will it even have that "soap opera effect" of videotape-trying-to-look-like-film? (Other soaps have tried to end that look but ultimately went back to it). Will there be an initial "outlay" of cash that eventually evaporates? In other words, will they have a splashy start, only to end up looking cheap as [I]Capitol[/I] did in the 1980s? A lot of the "look" of the series will hinge on what the facilities in Atlanta will be like, such as having access to backlot-type shell buildings that allows them to do exteriors without going on location. Will the exterior work they do in ATL "pass" for Baltimore? Or will they be just as studio-bound as traditional soaps? The reboot of [I]Dynasty [/I]was done at Eagle Rock Studios in the Atlanta area and they had nice, large sets and availability of many technological "cheats" to make things look much more high-end than one would expect. The overall look to me would match anything they could have mounted in LA but it was done much cheaper. So I'll peek in more for the "business end" rather than curiosity about the plotlines, casting, etc., mostly because this production might come up with better ways of doing things that could be adaptable to the current shows and aid in their survival. It could very well end up like a "Soap Lab" where they formulate ways to drag the medium into the 21st century. [/QUOTE]

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