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Hi guys,

Sorry for the lack of activity, I've been bogged down with work
relating to my website for over a year now.  Once I get as much of it
sorted out as possible (and my own PC back online) I'll have a more
active role on the group.  But remember, the main point is that you
lot interact and communicate with each.  There's a chat room, why not
arrange for a few of you to meet up and slag the rest (joking) ;-> ?

For those of you who don't know, I've started a website called We Are
Watching (http://www.wearewatching.co.nr).  It features a story
written by
Nicky Ji (a member of this group), and provides free e-book creation,
amongst other services and games.  I've also started an Online
Community (http://www.wearewatching.co.nr/community.html) where you
can chat
about loads of subjects (including QuizMania and The Mint!), apply
for an award for your own website and I'll be adding a live chat room
in the near future!  It also has 8 fully customized skins (colour
scheme), so you can change its look at any time if you wish.

Oh yeah, there's also hidden board called "Registered Author's", for
author's who want to know how to market their stories and articles,
plus resources on freelancing and fan-fic stuff.

http://www.wearewatching.co.nr/community.html

Hope to see you there,

Lee (LJ)
Group Owner

#62

From: "Bluebell" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Fri Aug 25, 2006 9:27 pm
Subject: A Buffy TVS fanfiction challenge

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Under Files>Fanfic&E-Books you can find details of a Buffy TVS
fanfiction challenge I have posted. If you feel like taking up the
challenge, then please send me an email to let me know.

#61

From: Bluebell <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Mon May 8, 2006 3:30 pm
Subject: Wentworth Miller on "Buffy The Vampire Slayer"

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Wentworth Miller, the star of the new TV drama "Prison Break", played the character Gage on the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" season two episode "Go Fish". The character Gage was a member of the Sunnydale High swim team until he turned into a fish monster.

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#59

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Date: Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:03 pm
Subject: New file uploaded to LJs-GROUP

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#58

From: Bluebell <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Fri Oct 28, 2005 2:50 pm
Subject: Interview with Chris Beck, composer from Buffy The Vampire Slayer

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This is just a random interview I found with the Watcher's Web interviewing Chris Beck who composed music for Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

The music of Buffy is not all about Dingoes Ate My Baby and the classic Nerf Herder theme. Underpinning the action for some of season 2 and all of season 3, Christophe Beck's sometimes haunting sometimes terrifiying music brings an already thrilling show significantly closer to perfect TV. As he commences work on the forthcoming Earshot episode of Buffy, Chris talks exclusively to The Watcher's Web.

The Watcher's Web - How long have you been performing and playing music?

Chris Beck - I started picking songs by ear off the radio when I was seven years old. Luckily I had a piano teacher who nurtured my ear (rather than slavishly sticking to sight-reading exercises, at which I was - and continue to be - awful). She had me choose one song a week to transcribe by ear and play for her. The first song I ever transcribed and played from beginning to end was "Tragedy" by the Bee Gees. From there to Buffy,

TWW - Can you give us some background on how you reached the point where you became the main composer for 'Buffy.'

CB - I'll have to give you the really short version: rock bands in high school, jazz in my first couple of years in college, then (mostly out of laziness - no practising required) shifting to composing as my main focus, musical theatre and opera toward the end of college. I went straight to USC to do the film scoring program, and had my first job (ghost-writing for another composer on a tiny little TV show) two months before graduation.

I first got a chance to send Joss my CD because John McNamara, a producer on a short-lived but underrated ABC show I worked on called "Spy Game", recommended me to David Greenwalt, who was actively collecting submissions for season 2. I got the gig along with a couple of other composers. By the end of season 2 I knew I wanted to do all the episodes, and luckily for me, Joss agreed to let me.

TWW - Can you tell us what you have been working on today and how you approached scoring the scenes you worked on.

CB - Well, let's see... Today I started "Earshot". I usually write in show order so I started with the "Previously". Those are pretty easy - the cuts move so fast, you can't play any of the individual moments, so it's just a matter of providing a little energy and a little mystery and anticipation.

TWW - Could you tell us about the equipment you use to perform and record the music for Buffy.

CB - I have a computer which controls a roomful of samplers, each of which has a number of high-quality simulations of orchestral instruments. I actually hear all the correct instrumentation as I compose.

TWW - I gather you often use real instruments to augment the synths and samplers. Do you play these yourself, or do you use session musicians? Would you like to work with a small orchestra as the Star Trek and Simpsons composers do or do prefer the way of working you have now?

CB - I hire session musicians - usually a woodwind player, and a second player to round it out. Which instrument I use depends on the episode - fiddle for "The Zeppo" (are you guys in season 3 yet?), viola for "Amends", a vocal for "The Wish". And yes, I'd love to work with an orchestra every week, although it would take a little more time to turn around each score. Unfortunately it's just too expensive. I've mentioned it to the producers before, and their reaction is "why should we spend so much money when we like the way your scores sound already?" So, short of deliberately making my orchestral simulations sound less convincing, it just ain't gonna happen.

TWW - Can you describe the process and time scale of producing the music for an episode. How long do you get, does the director of the episode and/or Joss give you much feedback as you work etc.

CB - The directors rarely get involved. It's pretty much Joss' baby. When there's a locked picture (meaning: no more editing) I sit down with Joss and a few other producers and/or editors, and we decide exactly where each music cue will start and stop, and what it's supposed to do. then I write a first draft, which usually takes 4-6 days. Joss looks at all the scenes with my music, and gives me notes. Usually most (95%) of what I write in the first draft ends up being the final version.

TWW - You won an Emmy award last year for 'Best Dramatic Underscore. Can you tell us a bit about the ceremony? Was it an enjoyable experience?

CB - As a nominee, the ceremony is incredibly tense until they announce your category. From then on it's actually pretty boring. No offence intended to non-composers, but I'm mostly interested in the music categories, and once they do them, I'm ready to leave. Winning, was, of course, incredible. I feel completely unworthy, especially since I'm such a huge fan of some of the other composers I beat. there's just something *wrong* about me winning an Emmy on my first try. I'm not giving it back though.

TWW - What is the most unusual thing you have ever sampled?

CB - Some of the spooky effects I use in Buffy are actually sampled from playing percussion instruments in unusual ways. A superball scraped across a gong, for example. Or playing the inside of a piano with a guitar pick.

TWW - Do you have any involvement with the bands used for the 'Bronze' scenes to ensure that the two types of music complement each other?

CB - No. It's sort of better that they don't, actually - I like it when the delineation of source music and score music is clear, when they inhabit two very different sonic worlds.

TWW - Will you be involved in the music for the forthcoming 'Angel" series, and if so will you and the producers be aiming for a markedly different style from the main series?

CB - Yes, I will be doing the underscore for "Angel". At first I'll be heavily involved in writing for both shows, but eventually I intend to hand "Angel" off to another composer, so I can focus on "Buffy" and actually get some sleep. It's still too early to say what the direction of the new show will be from a musical standpoint, although that will all be hashed out over the next month or so as I develop a theme.

TWW - What is the current status of your score CD as opposed to the 'Music From The Series' CD (which I believe will be released in August?)

CB - There is no status. Some companies have expressed interest in putting out a score CD. It will happen 6 months to a year after they release the song CD. The problem is, they keep pushing it back. And I wouldn't bet on August either.

TWW - What are your thoughts on the Chris Beck Cameo Committee? What sort of cameo would 'you' like to have in the series?

CB - If I get a cameo I'd have fun with it, but the Committee started more or less as a joke, a response to some idle (if colourful) comments I made on the PB at one time. I love it because it raises awareness of the score and gets people listening and talking about the music. And, to do that (raise awareness about the music), if it takes a group of people whose official mandate is to get me an appearance on the show (a proposition which has nothing to do with music), so be it. Plus it's cool to have a fan club.

TWW - Are you working on any other projects outside of Buffy? (soundtrack or conventional music) Are there any albums of your work available?

CB - Currently I'm looking for my next film project. I just finished Miramax's "Guinevere", and I'm looking at a few other possibilities for the next few months and into the summer hiatus. "Guinevere" will be my first commercially available soundtrack. I will have two cuts on it - the rest will be jazz source music not written by me. Should be out around when the movie comes out, which is in September.

TWW - Chris Beck, thank you.

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#57

From: Bluebell <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Sat Sep 3, 2005 2:28 pm
Subject: New film role for Sarah Michelle Gellar

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New film role for Sarah Michelle Gellar.

Former Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar is set to star in a big screen adaptation of Alice In Wonderland. "Alice" is based on a computer game version of the story in which the lead character destroys enemies with croquet mallets. In the best-selling game, Alice is a young woman consigned to psychiatric care following the death of her parents. She journeys to Wonderland - a threatening place where she must battle to stay alive. The film will be directed by Marcus Nispel, responsible for the recent remake of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre.

Source: BBC Cult website.

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#56

From: LJs-GROUP@...
Date: Fri Aug 26, 2005 3:32 pm
Subject: New file uploaded to LJs-GROUP

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#55

From: "Lee Cosgrove" <lj2kuk@...>
Date: Mon Aug 8, 2005 10:36 pm
Subject: Got something 2 say??

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Hey everyone!

If any of you fancy chatting in our private room I'll be online next
monday from around  10pm (UK time).  Of course you can  always  use it
any time you want to!

LJ

#54

From: LJs-GROUP@...
Date: Sun Jul 10, 2005 3:20 pm
Subject: New poll for LJs-GROUP

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What do you think of the changes Yahoo made to the group
(mainly the big white table plastered over most of each page)?

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#53

From: "Bluebell" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Fri Jul 8, 2005 11:25 am
Subject: Website Update

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For those of you who don't know, I have a website dedicated to Buffy
The Vampire Slayer, Angel and Charmed. I have just updated it so there
is now loads of info about the three shows. The address of my site is:
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/theyopage/brokenangels/index.htm

#52

From: "bosesteph" <bosesteph@...>
Date: Wed Jun 29, 2005 10:17 pm
Subject: Hey

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Hi!
I just joined the group. It's cool here already sneaked through some
things here and I like it so far...so hope we'll have some fun in
here;-)

#51

From: "Bluebell" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Sun Jun 26, 2005 9:31 am
Subject: Music Fun

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I think I have alresdy said I am a fan of the music used on the show.
Anyway I have added some more lyrics to songs used on the show and I
will add some more in the future.

#50

From: Bluebell <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Tue Jun 7, 2005 7:00 pm
Subject: amy and charisma photos

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i have added a mass of amy acker (fred burkle on angel) and charisma carpenter (cordelia on angel and buffy). they are all photo series from magazine shoots and season promos.

enjoy, love bluebell

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#49

From: "Bluebell" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Thu Jun 2, 2005 2:24 pm
Subject: Buffy, Willow and Dawn pics

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I have added a load of Buffy photos and some photos of Willow and
Dawn to the group for you all to enjoy.

#48

From: LJs-GROUP@...
Date: Mon May 23, 2005 2:55 pm
Subject: New file uploaded to LJs-GROUP

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   Description : Buffy The Vampire Slayer unaired pilot information. (I can't
remember where I got this from so I hope no one mind me putting it on this
group).

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#47

From: "Bluebell" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Sat May 21, 2005 5:22 pm
Subject: More Music

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As I am a big fan of the music on Buffy The Vampire Slayer I have put
some more lyrics of songs that have featured on the show and the
soundtracks in the Files section.

#46

From: "Bluebell" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Fri May 20, 2005 9:26 am
Subject: For fantasy and sci-fi fans

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I have started my own group for fans of sci-fi and fantasy tv
shows/films. So if you want to discuss something other than Buffy The
Vampire Slayer please visit it.

http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/love_scifi_love_fantasy/

#44

From: "Bluebell" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Mon Mar 28, 2005 2:56 pm
Subject: more music

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i have added some lyrics for 3 songs that feature on btvs and angel
episodes/soundtracks.

#43

From: "Nicola" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Sun Mar 27, 2005 12:51 pm
Subject: happy easter

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happy easter everyone. hope you are all enjoying chocolate :P
does anyone know how to create a database on this group?

#42

From: "Nicola" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Fri Mar 25, 2005 11:43 am
Subject: New photos and links

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I have added a photo of SMG modelling a scarf for the Ford
breastcancer awareness campaign and a behind the scenes photo from
Graduation Day part 2. Also I have added loads of links to BtVS
fanfiction sites that you might like to visit :)

#41

From: "Nicola" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Sat Mar 19, 2005 1:15 pm
Subject: Buffy on five

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For those of you who live in the UK I thought you might like to know
that channel Five is showing repeats of Buffy on Saturdays starting
from the very first episode.
Love Nicky

#40

From: "Nicola" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:58 pm
Subject: More pictures

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I have added some MORE pictures, including one of Michelle T and
various ones of Sarah M Gellar.

#39

From: LJs-GROUP@...
Date: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:49 pm
Subject: New file uploaded to LJs-GROUP

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#38

From: "Nicola" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Mon Mar 14, 2005 4:46 pm
Subject: Hi to Sara!

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Hey Sara I see you've joined the group. So what do you think of it?

#37

From: LJs-GROUP@...
Date: Fri Mar 4, 2005 8:35 pm
Subject: New file uploaded to LJs-GROUP

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#36

From: "bluebell_in_the_field" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Tue Mar 1, 2005 5:14 pm
Subject: Updated my website

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I have updated my website. I got bored with the grahics so I gave it
a re-vamp and added some new pages along the way.
The link to it is-
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/theyopage/
That will take you to the main part of it. How if you want to visit
my sub-site dedicated to Buffy TVS, Angel and Charmed, the link you
need is-
http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/theyopage/brokenangels/index.htm

Please tell me what you think of it!

#35

From: "bluebell_in_the_field" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Sun Feb 27, 2005 9:13 pm
Subject: SMG pictures from Teen People

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I have added a load of pictures of Sarah from Teen People magazine.
They are of her helping to build (what looks like) houses.
I have also added a random season 6 picture of Buffy and a picture of
Willow. Hope you like them.

#34

From: LJs-GROUP@...
Date: Mon Feb 21, 2005 4:21 pm
Subject: New file uploaded to LJs-GROUP

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#33

From: "bluebell_in_the_field" <bluebell_in_the_field@...>
Date: Fri Feb 18, 2005 5:37 pm
Subject: More stuff for you to enjoy

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Heya everyone! I'm so happy- it's finally half-term :) I love having
weeks off school. Anyways, I have upload a review of the film Scooby
Doo which Sarah Michelle Gellar stars in, some more photos (not a
surprise), and 3 midi files of music from BtVS. The review and midis
are in the FIles section and the photos are in the Photos section.
Enjoy, love Bluebell.