u/Sufficient_Bass2600

The concept of TV show episodes remaking famous episodes is not new. What is new with SNW Season 4 is that it looks like it is an assumed strategy by the writers.

>the showrunners designed each episode as a unique mini-movie that homages classic cinematic genres and older stories rather than doing literal "remakes"

They can justify it by claiming not making literal remakes but so far it has been remakes with the most memorable scenes literally redone.

Let's look at past famous movies and remake them in an episode. In previous season it was ennemy mine. Season 4 it is 65 millions with Adam Driver, The Hangover, Event Horizon and this week Casablanca.

Recycling past themes and past stories is one thing but stealing "render hommage" in season 4 is so noticeable that it become distracting.

Worse, they steal from famous movies. The "if you steal, you better off stealing from the best" does not work in movies. Everybody knows the movie and the new version is immediately compared to the original and I am sorry until now does not come out on top.

It is incredibly difficult to improve on what many perceive as some of the best movies/scenes. They would be better off stealing from an obscure movies or mediocre movie and then improve on it. Quentin Tarentino made a career out of it. His initial movies were just rip off of Asian and specifically Hong Kong movies that had never been released in the US except as cheap direct to video.

Copying the storyline of Casablanca is fine. Many movies have done it. Some more successfully than others. However copying the song scene was ridiculous as it never convey the same poignancy than in Casablanca where the French Hymn is drowning the German song.

Also in order to make it even more obvious they use black and white. The problem is that lighting for black and white require the kind of expertise that was unfortunately severely lacking.

Even with strong colour grading good black and white requires adapting the lighting on set. It must be changed to harsh sharp light. Contrast and highlight have to be exagerated. But that often results in awful normal colour. It is obvious that they did not dare to fully commit when filming in case they changed their mind in post and had to reshoot the entire episode. That resulted in an episode where you could barely see what was going on. Worse many of actors were black making any sudden juxtaposition with white actors even more obvious the lack of lighting skills.

My wife is a couple therapist and she is trying to move part of her business online.

Here are the functionalities that she will need:

##Online physical shop She has written books currently sold on Amazon but she wants to be able to sell them as well as she has potential clients in countries i.e. Africa where Amazon does not deliver.

##Online digital courses She has a set of training classes Udemy style that she wants to sell. Those courses are mostly videos, questionnaires and documents.

Purchasers should have life time access to her paid courses.

##Only free questionnaires Free questionnaire to act as funnel for the business.

Most of them are then ranked but for a few of them She would like an AI to interpret the result based on a grid.

##Webinars She currently organise weekly sessions and monthly webinars on Zoom.

She would like people to attend those sessions as part of the web site. She can move away from Zoom.

##Online booking and private call. She does that again on Zoom with the date added to her Google calendar but if she could have a widget that allow her colleagues and potential clients to directly book that would be useful.

##Community She used Facebook but it was a shit show.

Currently she is using WhatsApp but this is unwieldy. Trying to maintain multiple conversation threads is just a nightmare. Her and her colleague ended up creating multiple groups but then discussion in one group is not visible to people in another group. So everybody joins multiple groups.

That created its own problemsp. Having hundred of people messaging result in notification overload. Add the fact that some people seems to have boundary issues and it is nightmare. Personally I think that explain why those people are single. lol

It would be nice to have a forum but with also some kind of Facebook pages the way some subReddit have their own daily or event based threads.

Posting and commenting will be restricted to register member only but most pages will be unlimited access as read-only.

Pages with sensitive subject and explicit sexual content should be restricted to adult register member.

##Blog/Podcast She is starting a podcast with a colleague/friend. She wants to be able to post text but also videos.

##Newsletter A newsletter about her latest blod/pod/books/events.

I used to be a developper so I am pretty familiar with technical aspect. I am now a project manager but I have never managed a wordPress project. I am pretty overwhelmed by all the different options.

I see numerous plugins but no idea if they are compatible together.

Also I have seen code spewed by Elementor and other Front end building tool and frankly IMHO their css sucks.

She does not need thousand of classes. She would need a limited number of layout pages so I could customise her CSS.

In your opinion which plugins should I use?

Which platform would you recommend knowing that we are UK based and I do not want a US based provider.

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I am trying to limit the number of media queries.

I have a grid layout with 6 tiles.

.grid {
  display: grid;
  grid-template-columns: repeat(auto-fit, minmax(15rem, 1fr);
}

That works fine but something is annoying me is that sometimes the last row will have an empty tile.

Tile 1	Tile 2	Tile 3	Tile 4
Tile 5	Tile 6	Empty	Empty

I wants the tile to be grouped.

Based on the size of the viewport I want to have either:

##Desktop/Tablet landscape

Tile 1	Tile 2	Tile 3
Tile 4	Tile 5	Tile 6

##Tablet portrait / Phone landscape

Tile 1	Tile 2
Tile 3	Tile 4
Tile 5	Tile 6

##Phone portrait

Tile 1
Tile 2
Tile 3
Tile 4
Tile 5
Tile 6

Is there a trick to do it without media queries?

I am rewriting some web pages. Some are simplifying charts by removing their javascript based implementation with just CSS. But then that lead to multiple questions.

#Q1) Figure or div element

My overall container can be either a div element or a figure element.

Figure make it clearer that it is a chart inside also the element figcaption can then be used.

However figure also expect an image rather than a div or table element inside.

<div class="chartContainer" >
  <div class="chart" aria>
   ...
  </div>
</div>

Versus

<figure class="chartContainer" >
  <figcaption>Bar Chart of X</figcaption>
 

  <div class="chart">
   ...
  </div>

</figure>

#Q2) Table or div with role=table

I am trying to determine whether I am better off using semantic html to indicate the chart data itself or using div and using the role table.

One is better understood by system but the other is easier to manipulate for display.

Another aspect is that outside of time series visually in table data series may be displayed vertically but understood horizontally.

#Q3) Use hidden input

One possible way to determine if a chart should be a bar chart, an area chart, a bullet chart would be to have hidden inputs of type radio for the different chart type and select the appropriate.

<div>

  <div class="hiddenChartTypeSelector" >

<input type="radio" name=""chartA_chartType" value="BarChart" />

   <input type="radio" name=""chartA_chartType" value="StackedBarChart" />

   <input type="radio" name=""chartA_chartType" value="AreaChart" />

   <input type="radio" name=""chartA_chartType" value="StackedAreaChart" />

  </div>

  <div class="chart">
   ...
  </div>

</div>

But if the div for the chart type if hidden I then need to have a way to indicate to the accessibility reader what type of chart will be displayed.

#Q4) figcaption or div for chart Legend

digCaption can be used for legend. So Ibwas wondering whether the figcaption should be used to indicate the legend of the chart.

Coming from an IT background I had a couple diacussions with friends who are filmmakers. One of their gripe has been the poor quality of the apps available and or the extortionate price charged for bad or irrelevant functionalities.

Two of my friends are now executive producers / assistant directors and they have diametral view of the needs.

My friends seem to disagree on functionalities. For example one wants simple strip board when the other want complex Gantt chart with dependencies. One want the plan to be generated based on a set of configuration rules (for example calendar working hours 6 days on 1 day off over 6 weeks before a 1 week off) the other want to manually create the tasks.

Some want pre production as having a plan with tasks for location scouting, reading, design costume , booking an actor costume fitting etc when others only care about the shooting schedule.

The only things they agree is that most app are not worth it. Too simple, Too expensive. For example they both agree that StudioBinder is buggy and expensive for what it really offer and that customer support is abysmal. If you want all the functionality you pay through the nose but some are not properly implemented or at least in their view not designed by somebody who has worked in their field.

The AD who works on bigger projects has his own MS Project template but he has to manually convert his shot lists in shooting tasks. He hates that he has to spend time to generate a plan that the DP and other head of departments will then completely rewrite.

The executive producer complains that in fact he needs 4 projects plans.

1. One for pre-production.

2. Once that one is completed he then generate a shooting plan. That shooting plan cannot be too detailed because it is amended on a daily basis (weather, missing gear, ...).

3. Once shooting completed he need a post production plan that may involve reshooting as well.

4. Then the 4th plan is festival, marketing, promo, social media campaign.

Also on some film the editing team and the grading team are not based in the same countries. They don't follow the same calendar. Some time the editing is done the following day, the following week or after the completed shooting. He can't configure that before generating the plan.

Another person who work for a media agency told me that they would love to have an app for their social media campaign. She needs the stripboard to contain editing and AI prompt instructions for their staff. Also store/catalog the digital assets in a proper database but the files stored in a Cloud file bucket. They have bought so many digital asset that they have started to notice they have downloaded the same multiple time from Pond 5.

I am curious to see what functionalities directors, DPs and ADs really want in an app.

My big question is what is most important for film makers?

* Script break down

* Actors catalog

* A light strip board or a Gantt Chart

* Automatically generate a proper Gantt chart for pre prod tasks from a set of rules and story board.

* Generate resource booking.

* Generate Call sheet based one configurable template

* Storing digital asset

* Contracts storing

* CRM

...

We had the age of attack, the age of defense, the age of structured atta k but now we have entered the age of structured chaos.

Teams are so well coached that now the only way to destabilise the opposition is to force on them a situation where they are nit in place and individual talent can take over.

Ireland was the king of the structured attack. They won 6N tournament by being the most structured and relentless. But then they realised that they had reached a ceiling with that approach. They could not win against extra physical team that applied the same extremely structured approach.

So Farell switched to a Different approach. Box kick send wingers to create havoc, get the ball back and restart the process. So Ironically Ireland introduced that approach but out of the Tier 1 nation they look like the least equipped to properly implement it.

In order For thatcstructured chaos approach to work you need:

* A good scrum half Box kicker. Ireland has one but he lack variety in his play. And none of the understudy seem ready to take over.

* A maverick fly half who can do something brilliant and unexpected. so you can't Just back off him. None of Ireland 10 seems to be able to play that role when put under pressure.

* A dominant pack or a mobile pack. Ireland pack is good but not brilliant at either scrummaging and physically impose itself or at moving ball in hand.

* Tall, pacy wingers good in the air. Ireland has one but overall lacks pace on the wing.

Country	Scrum half	Maverick Fly Half	Pack	Pacy Wingers
France	✓	✓	Mobile	2 pacy wingers
England	✓	✓ not Ford	Dominant	2 pacy wingers
Italy	✓	✓	Dominant	1 pacy wingers+1 pacy center
Wales	✓	✓	half dominant but still mobile see Try scored by their prop	2 pacy wingers
South Africa	✓	✓ not Handré Pollard but Sacha Feinberg-Mngomezulu and Mannie Libbock	Dominant	2 pacy wingers

Every other nation has at least 3, but even that does not guarantee victory.

Things are cyclical but If I were an Irish fan I would be worried about the current cycle. Even Wales seem to have started to get their act together. England has the individual talent if not the coaching staff.