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Record-Setting "Days" Episode: 8/23/10
Topic Started: Aug 23 2010, 04:39 PM (1,676 Views)
Jason47	Aug 23 2010, 04:39 PM Post #1
Posts: 2,352 Group: Contributor Member #3,204 Joined: December 2, 2008	"Days of Our Lives" episode # 11402, which aired on Monday, August 23, 2010, was comprised of 50 scenes, a new "Days" record for most scenes in one episode. The complete scene-by-scene listing is below: Act T-Scene A: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick) Act T-Scene B: Nicole's Apartment (Nicole, Rafe) FLASHBACK (EJ voiceover, Stefano voiceover) Act T-Scene C: Daniel's Apartment (Chloe, Daniel, Melanie, Philip) Act T-Scene D: St. Mary's Nurses' Station (Carly, Sister Anne) Act T-Scene E: Stephanie's Apartment (Stephanie, Ian) Act T-Scene F: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick) Act 1-Scene A: Stephanie's Apartment (Stephanie, Ian) Act 1-Scene B: St. Mary's Nurses' Station (Carly, Sister Anne) Act 1-Scene C: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick, Roman) Act 2-Scene A: Stephanie's Apartment (Stephanie, Ian) Act 2-Scene B: Daniel's Apartment (Chloe, Daniel, Melanie, Philip) Act 2-Scene C: St. Mary's Nurses' Station (Carly, Sister Anne) Act 2-Scene D: Nicole's Apartment (Nicole, Rafe) Act 2-Scene E: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick, Roman) Act 3-Scene A: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick, Roman) Act 3-Scene B: Nicole's Apartment (Nicole, Rafe) Act 3-Scene C: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Lexie, Will, Roman) Act 3-Scene D: Nicole's Apartment (Nicole, Rafe) Act 4-Scene A: Daniel's Apartment (Chloe, Daniel, Melanie, Philip) Act 4-Scene B: Nice Pier (Stephanie, Ian) Act 4-Scene C: St. Mary's Nurses' Station (Carly, Sister Anne) Act 4-Scene D: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick, Roman) FLASHBACK (Sami, Rafe, Nicole) Act 5-Scene A: Daniel's Bedroom (Daniel, Chloe) Act 5-Scene B: St. Mary's Nurses' Station (Carly) Intercut: Brady's Pub (Melanie, Xs) Act 5-Scene C: Stephanie's Apartment (Stephanie, Ian) Act 5-Scene D: Rafe's Office (Nicole, Rafe) Act 5-Scene E: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick, Roman, Johnny, Allie) Act 6-Scene A: Daniel's Bedroom (Daniel, Chloe) Act 6-Scene B: Brady's Pub (Melanie, Philip, Xs) Intercut: St. Mary's Nurses' Station (Carly, Sister Anne) Act 6-Scene C: Brady's Pub (Melanie, Philip, Xs) Act 6-Scene D: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick, Roman, Johnny, Allie) Act 6-Scene E: Rafe's Office (Nicole, Rafe, Agent Cooper) Intercut: Brady's Pub (Gabi, Xs) Act 7-Scene A: Stephanie's Apartment (Stephanie, Ian) Act 7-Scene B: Daniel's Bedroom (Chloe) Act 7-Scene C: Nice Pier (Daniel) Act 7-Scene D: Ext. Brady's Pub (Philip) Act 7-Scene E: Maggie's Kitchen (Melanie) Act 7-Scene F: Daniel's Apartment (Chloe) Act 7-Scene G: St. Mary's Nurses' Station (Carly, Sister Anne) Act 7-Scene H: Stephanie's Apartment (Stephanie, Ian) Act 7-Scene I: St. Mary's Nurses' Station (Carly) Act 7-Scene J: Rafe's Office (Nicole, Rafe, Agent Cooper) Intercut: Brady's Pub (Gabi, Xs) Act 7-Scene K: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick, Roman) Act 8-Scene A: Stephanie's Apartment (Stephanie, Ian) Act 8-Scene B: Nice Pier (Daniel) Act 8-Scene C: Brady's Pub (Philip, Xs) Act 8-Scene D: Maggie's Kitchen (Melanie) Act 8-Scene E: Daniel's Apartment & Corridor (Chloe, Carly) Act 8-Scene F: Rafe's Office (Nicole, Agent Cooper) Act 8-Scene G: DiMera Mansion (Sami, EJ, Stefano, Kate, Lexie, Will, Judge Fitzpatrick, Roman, Rafe) http://www.jason47.com



lysie	Aug 23 2010, 09:05 PM Post #2
Posts: 28,107 Group: Admin Member #4,604 Joined: May 20, 2009	Holy crap. What is wrong with the people who run this show?



Casey	Aug 23 2010, 09:05 PM Post #3
Nothing is impossible. Posts: 8,077 Group: Veteran Member #6,776 Joined: May 8, 2010	Wow.



Matt	Aug 23 2010, 09:10 PM Post #4
Classic Soap Fan Posts: 13,064 Group: Contributor Member #214 Joined: August 5, 2007 Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Another World Twitter ID kyleo71	lysie Aug 23 2010, 09:05 PM Holy crap. What is wrong with the people who run this show? If it has to be spelled out for you, I'm highly disappointed in you. :toetap:



LuvingLumi	Aug 23 2010, 09:14 PM Post #5
Posts: 14,269 Group: Veteran Member #5,892 Joined: December 1, 2009 Mood Roflmao Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera General Hospital Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days of Our Lives Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Revenge, True Blood Twitter ID https://twitter.com/luvinglumi YouTube ID http://www.youtube.com/user/luvinglumi?feature=results_main	wouldn't it be fitting if IT became the lowest rated for the week? lmfao!



lysie	Aug 23 2010, 10:08 PM Post #6
Posts: 28,107 Group: Admin Member #4,604 Joined: May 20, 2009	Matt Aug 23 2010, 09:10 PM lysie Aug 23 2010, 09:05 PM Holy crap. What is wrong with the people who run this show? If it has to be spelled out for you, I'm highly disappointed in you. :toetap: It definitely doesn't need to be. But let's all take a minute to realize that that's fewer than one minute per scene.



Matt	Aug 23 2010, 10:11 PM Post #7
Classic Soap Fan Posts: 13,064 Group: Contributor Member #214 Joined: August 5, 2007 Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Another World Twitter ID kyleo71	lysie Aug 23 2010, 10:08 PM Matt Aug 23 2010, 09:10 PM lysie Aug 23 2010, 09:05 PM Holy crap. What is wrong with the people who run this show? If it has to be spelled out for you, I'm highly disappointed in you. :toetap: It definitely doesn't need to be. But let's all take a minute to realize that that's fewer than one minute per scene. It was just a few weeks ago I think we were joking about how short some of the scenes were (and joking how some were less than a minute). I didn't think TPTB that read this board would take that discussion as a challenge. :blink:



lysie	Aug 23 2010, 10:15 PM Post #8
Posts: 28,107 Group: Admin Member #4,604 Joined: May 20, 2009	Matt Aug 23 2010, 10:11 PM lysie Aug 23 2010, 10:08 PM Matt Aug 23 2010, 09:10 PM Quoting limited to 3 levels deep It definitely doesn't need to be. But let's all take a minute to realize that that's fewer than one minute per scene. It was just a few weeks ago I think we were joking about how short some of the scenes were (and joking how some were less than a minute). I didn't think TPTB that read this board would take that discussion as a challenge. :blink: Me either. First the coral peasant dress, and now this? They're going to give Melanie bigger teeth. It's going to happen.



Zoe_Zeppelin	Aug 23 2010, 10:49 PM Post #9
It had been a wonderful evening and what I needed now, to give it the perfect ending, was a little of the Ludwig Van. Posts: 11,282 Group: Veteran Member #6,492 Joined: March 17, 2010	Wow. Thanks for posting Jason! :)



PhoenixRising05	Aug 23 2010, 10:55 PM Post #10
GET EM STEPH!! Posts: 16,578 Group: Veteran Member #82 Joined: June 14, 2007 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days of our Lives Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days of our Lives Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera ER Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Melrose Place Current Soap Rankings 1.) DAYS 2.) B&B 3.) GH 4.) Y&R	What's funny is we have been getting longer scenes at times in recent episodes. I don't see this as a big deal. There were some decent length scenes in the first half of the show. It was really the second half where there was alot of short scenes and alot of that was because of all the shifting from scene to scene during the setup to the mystery as to who switched the paternity tests. I just wouldn't make it a habit to do something like that but I don't think they will.



SlyestFox	Aug 24 2010, 12:29 AM Post #11
Posts: 1,852 Group: Elite Member Member #7,153 Joined: July 22, 2010 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days of our Lives Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days of our Lives, Passions, One Life to Live Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Mad Men and Game of Thrones (oh, they're soaps) Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Dallas	lysie Aug 23 2010, 10:08 PM Matt Aug 23 2010, 09:10 PM lysie Aug 23 2010, 09:05 PM Holy crap. What is wrong with the people who run this show? If it has to be spelled out for you, I'm highly disappointed in you. :toetap: It definitely doesn't need to be. But let's all take a minute to realize that that's fewer than one minute per scene. Okay, in fairness, this is out of context. Because of the nature of the whole "Who switched the paternity results?" thing, there was a need to be quickly cutting between various characters. A few seconds on Daniel, then a few seconds on Philip, then a few seconds on Melanie, then a few seconds on Chloe, then a few seconds on Carly. That adds up.



jane1978	Aug 24 2010, 09:23 AM Post #12
Posts: 2,309 Group: Elite Member Member #448 Joined: October 9, 2007	Matt Aug 23 2010, 10:11 PM lysie Aug 23 2010, 10:08 PM Matt Aug 23 2010, 09:10 PM Quoting limited to 3 levels deep It definitely doesn't need to be. But let's all take a minute to realize that that's fewer than one minute per scene. It was just a few weeks ago I think we were joking about how short some of the scenes were (and joking how some were less than a minute). I didn't think TPTB that read this board would take that discussion as a challenge. :blink: Well, when I was doing a screenwriting course two years ago we had a lector who recently studied in USA and she said we should never write a scene longer than 3 pages (approx. 2 minutes) unless it�s absolutely needed and there should be only few of them in our script. Generally, we was tought to don�t make scenes longer than 1,5 pages, and even then try to alternate them with some 0,5 to 1 pages, which is really just few lines, otherwise the viewers get bored and stop paying attention. She told us nothing is more boring for viewers than two people talking (she called it talking heads), so especially when our script isn�t action packed and there is a lowbudget, we have to make the scenes as short as possible and cut between them a lot and try to find some way how to dynamize it (mainly never let the characters just sit and talk). Maybe it�s a little extreme, but DAYS is obviously just following a trend you can see everywhere. Edited by jane1978, Aug 24 2010, 09:24 AM.



Sindacco	Aug 24 2010, 10:25 AM Post #13
Posts: 4,219 Group: Elite Member Member #481 Joined: October 21, 2007	jane1978 Aug 24 2010, 09:23 AM Matt Aug 23 2010, 10:11 PM lysie Aug 23 2010, 10:08 PM Quoting limited to 3 levels deep It was just a few weeks ago I think we were joking about how short some of the scenes were (and joking how some were less than a minute). I didn't think TPTB that read this board would take that discussion as a challenge. :blink: Well, when I was doing a screenwriting course two years ago we had a lector who recently studied in USA and she said we should never write a scene longer than 3 pages (approx. 2 minutes) unless it�s absolutely needed and there should be only few of them in our script. Generally, we was tought to don�t make scenes longer than 1,5 pages, and even then try to alternate them with some 0,5 to 1 pages, which is really just few lines, otherwise the viewers get bored and stop paying attention. She told us nothing is more boring for viewers than two people talking (she called it talking heads), so especially when our script isn�t action packed and there is a lowbudget, we have to make the scenes as short as possible and cut between them a lot and try to find some way how to dynamize it (mainly never let the characters just sit and talk). Maybe it�s a little extreme, but DAYS is obviously just following a trend you can see everywhere. I'm not attacking you or anythig so don't take is as that but what that woman said is nothing but bullshit! Viewers get bored with people talking? I am so sick of everyone trying to pander to those fucking MTV trash viewers who's favorite movie is Transformers. Seriously, this is why soaps are in trouble. We want long character driven scenes. Not cheap and fast plot driven scenes. This disgust me.



PhoenixRising05	Aug 24 2010, 11:37 AM Post #14
GET EM STEPH!! Posts: 16,578 Group: Veteran Member #82 Joined: June 14, 2007 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days of our Lives Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days of our Lives Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera ER Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Melrose Place Current Soap Rankings 1.) DAYS 2.) B&B 3.) GH 4.) Y&R	Sindacco Aug 24 2010, 10:25 AM jane1978 Aug 24 2010, 09:23 AM Matt Aug 23 2010, 10:11 PM Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Well, when I was doing a screenwriting course two years ago we had a lector who recently studied in USA and she said we should never write a scene longer than 3 pages (approx. 2 minutes) unless it�s absolutely needed and there should be only few of them in our script. Generally, we was tought to don�t make scenes longer than 1,5 pages, and even then try to alternate them with some 0,5 to 1 pages, which is really just few lines, otherwise the viewers get bored and stop paying attention. She told us nothing is more boring for viewers than two people talking (she called it talking heads), so especially when our script isn�t action packed and there is a lowbudget, we have to make the scenes as short as possible and cut between them a lot and try to find some way how to dynamize it (mainly never let the characters just sit and talk). Maybe it�s a little extreme, but DAYS is obviously just following a trend you can see everywhere. I'm not attacking you or anythig so don't take is as that but what that woman said is nothing but bullshit! Viewers get bored with people talking? I am so sick of everyone trying to pander to those fucking MTV trash viewers who's favorite movie is Transformers. Seriously, this is why soaps are in trouble. We want long character driven scenes. Not cheap and fast plot driven scenes. This disgust me. Same here. We've seen it on the boards for years though. People complain about "talking" scenes and complain about the things that used to make soaps great. Character interactions, relationship and character building scenes, etc. I don't mind quick scenes but I do think there should be one or two longer scenes per episode and, recently, the show has been doing that regularly, at last it's seemed like it to me. I think that way there is a mix for everyone.



Halloween Family	Aug 24 2010, 11:42 AM Post #15
Posts: 3,458 Group: Elite Member Member #3,039 Joined: October 17, 2008 Mood Asleep Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days of our Lives Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days of our Lives	Sindacco Aug 24 2010, 10:25 AM ]I'm not attacking you or anythig so don't take is as that but what that woman said is nothing but bullshit! Viewers get bored with people talking? I am so sick of everyone trying to pander to those fucking MTV trash viewers who's favorite movie is Transformers. Seriously, this is why soaps are in trouble. We want long character driven scenes. Not cheap and fast plot driven scenes. This disgust me. I would love it if there was some actual dialogue that amounted to anything. I'd much rather see characters talking about something of importance rather than never really laying things out on the table.



Casey	Aug 24 2010, 11:42 AM Post #16
Nothing is impossible. Posts: 8,077 Group: Veteran Member #6,776 Joined: May 8, 2010	I didn't mind them switching it up so much if it was for the storyline. I don't want it to be a everyday thing but it wasn't that bad.



SocRMum1	Aug 24 2010, 12:08 PM Post #17
2013 is off to a very promising start... Posts: 10,102 Group: Veteran Member #603 Joined: December 6, 2007 Favorite Current Daytime Soap Opera Days of Our Lives Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Days of Our Lives Favorite Current Primetime Soap Opera Revenge Favorite Primetime Soap Opera of All Time Knots Landing	Halloween Family Aug 24 2010, 11:42 AM Sindacco Aug 24 2010, 10:25 AM ]I'm not attacking you or anythig so don't take is as that but what that woman said is nothing but bullshit! Viewers get bored with people talking? I am so sick of everyone trying to pander to those fucking MTV trash viewers who's favorite movie is Transformers. Seriously, this is why soaps are in trouble. We want long character driven scenes. Not cheap and fast plot driven scenes. This disgust me. I would love it if there was some actual dialogue that amounted to anything. I'd much rather see characters talking about something of importance rather than never really laying things out on the table. Or repeating the same dialogue over and over and over again. The words don't matter unless they are driving the story. With DAYS, the words often are used to stall the story.



jane1978	Aug 24 2010, 01:01 PM Post #18
Posts: 2,309 Group: Elite Member Member #448 Joined: October 9, 2007	Sindacco Aug 24 2010, 10:25 AM jane1978 Aug 24 2010, 09:23 AM Matt Aug 23 2010, 10:11 PM Quoting limited to 3 levels deep Well, when I was doing a screenwriting course two years ago we had a lector who recently studied in USA and she said we should never write a scene longer than 3 pages (approx. 2 minutes) unless it�s absolutely needed and there should be only few of them in our script. Generally, we was tought to don�t make scenes longer than 1,5 pages, and even then try to alternate them with some 0,5 to 1 pages, which is really just few lines, otherwise the viewers get bored and stop paying attention. She told us nothing is more boring for viewers than two people talking (she called it talking heads), so especially when our script isn�t action packed and there is a lowbudget, we have to make the scenes as short as possible and cut between them a lot and try to find some way how to dynamize it (mainly never let the characters just sit and talk). Maybe it�s a little extreme, but DAYS is obviously just following a trend you can see everywhere. I'm not attacking you or anythig so don't take is as that but what that woman said is nothing but bullshit! Viewers get bored with people talking? I am so sick of everyone trying to pander to those fucking MTV trash viewers who's favorite movie is Transformers. Seriously, this is why soaps are in trouble. We want long character driven scenes. Not cheap and fast plot driven scenes. This disgust me. I�m just repeating what the woman said and what is obviously the trend. It wasn�t a soap writing course, it was more tv movies/primetime shows thing, but that�s what she expected from us and I actually see a lot of those things applied in a lot of current TV production, not just soaps. It doesn�t mean longer scenes are banned, just contrary, when you suddenly slow down and put some unusually long scene between short ones, it can work as attention grabber itself because it makes the viewer wonder why the sudden change of pace. Personally, I love some early 90�s longer J/J scenes, but when I tried to watch some really old 70�s or early 80�s stuff on youtube and there are scenes which take 5+, even 7+ minutes I�m not really able to force myself to watch it till the end. It�s just too long, there is no drive, no clean purpose, it�s like everyday talk. So I think atleast partially she was right.



Matt	Aug 24 2010, 01:18 PM Post #19
Classic Soap Fan Posts: 13,064 Group: Contributor Member #214 Joined: August 5, 2007 Favorite Soap Opera of All Time Another World Twitter ID kyleo71	jane1978 Aug 24 2010, 01:01 PM Sindacco Aug 24 2010, 10:25 AM jane1978 Aug 24 2010, 09:23 AM Quoting limited to 3 levels deep I'm not attacking you or anythig so don't take is as that but what that woman said is nothing but bullshit! Viewers get bored with people talking? I am so sick of everyone trying to pander to those fucking MTV trash viewers who's favorite movie is Transformers. Seriously, this is why soaps are in trouble. We want long character driven scenes. Not cheap and fast plot driven scenes. This disgust me. I�m just repeating what the woman said and what is obviously the trend. It wasn�t a soap writing course, it was more tv movies/primetime shows thing, but that�s what she expected from us and I actually see a lot of those things applied in a lot of current TV production, not just soaps. It doesn�t mean longer scenes are banned, just contrary, when you suddenly slow down and put some unusually long scene between short ones, it can work as attention grabber itself because it makes the viewer wonder why the sudden change of pace. Personally, I love some early 90�s longer J/J scenes, but when I tried to watch some really old 70�s or early 80�s stuff on youtube and there are scenes which take 5+, even 7+ minutes I�m not really able to force myself to watch it till the end. It�s just too long, there is no drive, no clean purpose, it�s like everyday talk. So I think atleast partially she was right. It's those 5-7 minute scenes on those old 60s/70s/80s eps on youtube that I love! It's much more theatrical. Back in the old days, soaps (as a primarily New York institution) were much like a recorded stage production (which made sense since so many performers were stage performers). For many years, it was widely accepted that soap operas helped keep Broadway going because theater actors would take soap roles in between stage productions in order to pay the bills.



lysie	Aug 24 2010, 01:39 PM Post #20
Posts: 28,107 Group: Admin Member #4,604 Joined: May 20, 2009	Matt Aug 24 2010, 01:18 PM jane1978 Aug 24 2010, 01:01 PM Sindacco Aug 24 2010, 10:25 AM Quoting limited to 3 levels deepwant long character driven scenes. Not cheap and fast plot driven scenes. This disgust me. I�m just repeating what the woman said and what is obviously the trend. It wasn�t a soap writing course, it was more tv movies/primetime shows thing, but that�s what she expected from us and I actually see a lot of those things applied in a lot of current TV production, not just soaps. It doesn�t mean longer scenes are banned, just contrary, when you suddenly slow down and put some unusually long scene between short ones, it can work as attention grabber itself because it makes the viewer wonder why the sudden change of pace. Personally, I love some early 90�s longer J/J scenes, but when I tried to watch some really old 70�s or early 80�s stuff on youtube and there are scenes which take 5+, even 7+ minutes I�m not really able to force myself to watch it till the end. It�s just too long, there is no drive, no clean purpose, it�s like everyday talk. So I think atleast partially she was right. It's those 5-7 minute scenes on those old 60s/70s/80s eps on youtube that I love! It's much more theatrical. Back in the old days, soaps (as a primarily New York institution) were much like a recorded stage production (which made sense since so many performers were stage performers). For many years, it was widely accepted that soap operas helped keep Broadway going because theater actors would take soap roles in between stage productions in order to pay the bills. I generally prefer longer scenes, too. Obviously, that depends on the situation, though. There was an EJAMI scene not too long ago that I felt like lasted an eternity. The dialogue was stupid, and nothing was happening. But when a scene is good, and there's movement, and the dialogue and the acting are just there...don't cut it off at twenty seconds! That totally ruins the moment, IMO. As for the scenes from the 70s, 80s or whenever, I think sometimes those are hard to sit through now because obviously on youtube they're not in context.



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