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There is no technical debt in TV production. That alone changes many things. You don't need to care how you arrived at the result or how "maintainable" it is.
by 21 8y ago
There is no technical debt in TV production. That alone changes many things. You don't need to care how you arrived at the result or how "maintainable" it is.
- smackay 8y agoI thought that "the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs." was the very definition of tehnical debt - which took 40 years to finally resolve. https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2018/05/30/solo-star-wars-story-kessel-run-12-parsecs/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/jvchamary/2018/05/30/solo-star-...
- AnimalMuppet 8y agoPlot debt? I could actually see that describing some shows...
- XorNot 8y agoThe Stargate SG-1 writers regretted the "3 shots from a zat-gun disintegrates" thing, and had zat guns only ever hit stuff twice for the rest of the show after they realized the mistake they'd made. The problem was introduced to solve a plot issue in one episode - they needed a way for the team to get rid of the bodies they were leaving behind on a spaceship in one episode.
- delecti 8y agoBut plenty of other franchises just ignore things in the past as though they never happened, even up to and including characters.
- protomyth 8y agoI'm not sure that quite right. You do need to make sure it is maintainable because (at least in the US), they needed multiple seasons to reach a mark that would allow syndication.
- lbriner 8y agoI think 21 is talking about the technical side of production e.g. hacking some weird sound effect - doesn't necessarily matter if it was hard, once it's recorded and produced, it's done. If you had to have someone holding up a part of the set, as long as it worked, it doesn't need to be maintained. What you are talking about is maintenance of the storyline, which in some ways is probably more consistent with what us Devs talk about with technical debt. That said, there are plenty of plot holes in many TV shows and I still watch them!
- callmeal 8y agoThere is. It's just called continuity errors, or retroactive continuity. Not something that you can easily fix given the type of industry.
- mrob 8y agoInterlacing is technical debt. It looks bad and there's no longer any need for it, but it's still included in currently supported standards.
- walshemj 8y agoThere is in production you start out with x pages of script and have 7 days to shoot it. Listen to and commentary with directors and actors they will often refer to getting the day done i.e. they shot the required number of pages and having to cut stuff or not be able to do some cool shot they wanted.