Any "Glee" fans in the lounge?

[driver8]

My wife and I love this show! It is so over the top, and the characters are hilarious!

The music, singing, and dancing is pretty cool, too...

"Glee" fans -- let's hear from you!

[nolabear]

1. Absolutely! It's a somewhat guilty pleasure

since I'm an old Deadhead and think of myself as a lover of smart fiction, literature, "films," all that pretentious crappola. But I get a huge kick out of this show-tuney, high-schooley, jocks/arts nerds show. They had me from that hysterical rework of "Rehab" in the first show, and I'd watch Jane Lynch in anything. She makes me literally laugh out loud. And I've been shocked at how talented as singers and dancers the actors are; it appears they really are doing their own stuff.

I will say that this show doesn't have a female character that's not crazy, and that bothers me a little. The guys are sort of clueless and sincere, and the girls and women are manipulative, neurotic, deceptive, etc. But they're darn funny.

[piratefish08]

5. anther Deadhead here admitting to my guiltiest tv pleasure.......

The over-the-top cheese factor just makes me smile.

It's like watching old Brady Bunch reruns......

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Yeah, I love it. I plunk myself down and watch "So you think you can dance" and then

stay there for "Glee."

I like it enough to feel like waiting a whole week for another one is a real drag.

[Xithras]

3. It's a brilliant show.

One of the reasons it works so well is that the producers tossed the old model for casting a show. Instead of writing the characters and then holding casting calls to find the actor best suited to the role, the producers simply developed general outlines for the characters and then started touring Broadway. Every actor on the show was personally invited to join it and was poached from a stage production, and every onscreen character was tailored to the personalities and strengths of the people selected for the role. They also continue to troll Broadway for stars willing to play minor or recurring roles on the show (which is why Kristin Chenoweth was on a few weeks ago).

Being an eternal pessimist with all things Hollywood, I'm waiting for the cancellation announcement any day now.

[driver8]

4. That is so cool -- my wife and I wondered if the actors could actually sing.

I guess they can!!

[Xithras]

6. Yes, they do really sing the songs...but...

They shoot the scenes with the actors singing, and then pull them into a studio to re-record the singing and overdub the original audio. Because it's a weekly series and they don't have time to be perfect, you can occasionally detect this when an actors mouth and voice don't quite align perfectly. You're really hearing them sing, but you're not SEEING them sing the same audio track you're listening to.

And they do use standard studio tricks to enhance the actors voices when needed. There is studio software that can make your cat sound like Streisand, and pretty much every singer on the planet uses it nowadays. Glee is no different, in that regard.

[driver8]

8. I am a sound editor at Warner Bros...

the software we have available to us is amazing!

I figured that they recorded the music and singing separately since it would be a nightmare to try to capture this live. They get the sync pretty close, which is hard to do.

[Xithras]

10. The syncing is done digitally nowadays, as I understand it.

You may know this better that I, since you work at WB, but I've seen audio syncing software based on keyframing that was just incredible. Pick a point in the audio feed, then pick a point in the video feed, and set them as a keyframe. Set a few dozen of these over the course of an entire song, and the software can digitally alter the speed of the video to synchronize it with the audio keyframes. It allows overdubbing to happen quickly and with minimal effort on the part of the engineers.

I don't work for the film industry, but I've been working on an automated audio captioning and traslation system for online videos for the last couple of years, and many of the technologies are closely related. It's amazing what you can do with software nowadays.

[demmiblue]

7. I love "Glee." My favorite moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmSPeBLR678

:rofl:

[driver8]

9. Ha Ha!! After that show, I walked around singing that song for about a week!

My daughter kept saying, "Daddy, will you please STOP singing that song!?"

(I'm not a very good singer, either.).

[Xithras]

12. I LOVED that episode.

Every conservative dickwad father in America could take a lesson from that kids dad at the end of the episode.

[Patiod]

11. I want to see Lea Michele do something from "Wicked"

She reminds me so much of Idina Menzel, especially when she's singing

[Iggo]

13. I didn't wanna be, but I am.