Friends - The One that Goes Behind the Scenes Full Episode HD

We embarked on a completely new adventure and it's very exciting, we somehow built this family that kept growing and growing and growing and somehow it culminated and they became

friends

. A teenager approached me and said he had to come. with Ross and Rachel and said: I'll even tell my kids it's the start of a new season for the hit TV show Friends in just over two weeks the first

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will be filmed in front of a live audience over the next nine months twenty-three more will quickly join a television show it's like a freight train once it leaves the station it gains unstoppable and relentless momentum first to get on board for the

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are the writers of the first

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maybe the first line you're dealing with to catch up, but you know there's been a second, you know, I just have to vent, not many look like that, you know, I think you're definitely there, the Rachel Hotel Berman, remember in last season's cliffhanger how it became to rock I got a little drunk here Tidus, they were on cliffhanger at the end of last season, it was kind of a double cliffhanger, yeah you sure want to do this.

Monica and Chandler planned to get married right before entering the chapel so they could move on. Ross and Rachel drunkenly stumble out of the chapel after getting married, oh my god, I mean egg, I don't know what Monica and Chandler and B are going to do, we have no idea what the hell Ross and Rachel were thinking and how that. what they're going to do to get out of this or if they even want to get out of this Adam Chase is an executive producer and one of the head writers of Friends, he's written the first two drafts of the premiere episode and now the way that What works is that The script is put on the table where the entire writing team gives their opinion and makes suggestions.

It's not about that. What's cool is that he doesn't really want another divorce and I really think that confuses the things you can fix him with in that scene. that he says we'll get an annulment and he says oh and she's Bulova and he says well it's still a failed marriage she says but it's like it never happened and she sells he says okay he gets on board reluctantly then at least you'll understand when I do, it's not just in this episode, the first episode of the season, we have the wedding chapel, Rachel's hotel room, the cafeteria at Caesars with the buffet line, we have a plane, we have Monica and Rachel's Apartment Art director John Schaffner reviews the set list in the season premiere for supervising producer Todd Stevens, but it's all guesswork because the script is still a work in progress Okay, maybe we'll do episode 5/yeah, I didn't.

I didn't do it because it's less funny. I'm not like you find it together in an office. No, I think this one is better. What it has to mean. Low Whitefield. I'm sorry. No. I loved the performance. It was vivid. it was like wow, we're talking as the friends head into another season, the stakes are so high and how much fun they can make it. It's always one of the top 10 most-watched shows on television, and NBC still relies on friends to kick off its crucial Thursday night blocks. The must see TV show should be Thursday in two weeks as far as AI is concerned Thursday night, I wanted it to start our Thursday night and without it we would find it very difficult to keep the numbers as high as they are, it is It becomes an identity, you know?

When people drive by the Warner Brothers parking lot and see the photo of friends on that wall for the studio, we are the studio that produces friends and the financial rewards should be obvious. Friends averages over 24 million viewers each week. one of the crown jewels of Warner Brothers Studios, they produce the show and sell it to NBC. I think that's all you need. I think Feenie is fine, after Phoebe's prank she can come out and everyone can see her at either end of the writers' table. Marta Kauffman and David Crane became friends and together with their partner Kevin Bright Big Fresh a great first show they oversee one of the most successful production companies on television as well as friends Bright Kauffman Crane has two other primetime shows Bryan Kauffman Crane Jesse's Closet and Veronica your new boss there you go we met in college and we've been writing for over 20 years together and we did musicals in New York we wrote musicals when we were in our twenties wow we're not making any money so a baby who It's just mine.

We started thinking about ideas for shows and trying to sell them, and one of the first ones we sold was Dream On Dream On Success on cable. We open the door to the NBC network. We put Friends on the air in 1994 and the brilliant Kauffman crane was up and running. Hello Blomberg kwench Sheeran bird and Greg bruza form the costume department for friends, their first task is to dress one of the three main sets of friends Monica and Rachel's apartment, this means rearranging each piece of furniture, decorative art books and the countless other elements that turn a sound studio into a TV house this is running on a processor we like to throw an accessory on eBay let's go back to the classroom and see how it looks good last season it's because yeah it's pretty much what I remembered is that props are what I do, props are anything that an actor touches, anything that needs to be touched and manipulated, those props are handled, you know, in other types of shows, that would be weapons, that would be, ya You know, a clipboard, a briefcase, a capsule, in this case, a coffee cup. many are eating the magazine, they find anything after the touch-ups that she has to find and make it perfect for that character in patina hey oh oh Monica is so beautiful in one episode Monica received a dollhouse that her aunt gave her Grandma, it was a beautiful Victorian dollhouse and Phoebe wanted to play with it.

Phoebe wanted to put all kinds of absurd things in it. Monica refused, so she check it out haha, what is this? It's a dog. Every house should have a dog, not one that can urinate on the roof, so we'll see. decided to make her own dollhouse out of shoe boxes so that was a lot of fun of course we had to make six yeah we didn't just make it other ways yeah yeah there was a short day it has a licorice room , you can eat everything. furniture because they didn't want to join me in the aroma room, but we had to make six because of course they had to burn five six fires, it was to make the ps3 system for the apartment at the same time, all a friend's pieces.

The firm says Central Perk has been found and work continues to rebuild the world's most famous fantasy cafe. Hi, we look great, good job dad, Tommy Ruben, Danny, Larry John, you do a good job, adult mom, building 101, there's a lot, a central purchase backed in red. Cayenne Quinn starts choreographing the set modification, just do it directly. I can see him returning to these sets. We have all these continuity photos to help us along the way in this flex now that we have all this coffee and tea. Product and whatever, we change every third fourth episode, you know, to make it realistic because you can have a company stagnant to know where everything is.

The face says that a new draft of Episode One has arrived from the writers' rumor mill. Some

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have been written. removed and replaced with new ones, this triggers a hasty conference held in a fixture of a Caesar's Palace blackjack team so we can leave the wedding chapel there I just need to know what we like, we work on this to illuminate now the football moves so now they can but it's a gamble here, look at his double eyes, yes sir, in the gaffer and I work together with the director of photography, you can see a spectacle, as you can see in the apartment, here we have a week's equipment To get everything prepared and ready for the actors and everyone who will come, the basic goal of the gaffers is to make sure that every part of the set is evenly lit once the cameras are rolling, there is no time to stand still in life for everyone. and every single shot, Josh, who you're going to go with. the Buford in this book.

I'm thinking about bottoming out, it will be a challenge if you limit Joey's channels, it wouldn't really matter because what I'll do is take out the two walls, reset the back wall and just put it on the dresser. There's still a lot on the show for both of us to do after this, how many things are there, an elevator, walking to the table, then we see Jayant, the difficulty is that when they originally, you know, came out of last season, everyone followed their path. Thinking about the holidays, oh, we'll be back and we have to finish all the things at Caesar's Palace.

We will not return to New York. We will leave a lot of the sets, so we left everything. I think you know they started. sitting around the table, I'm thinking about it, they recovered, we only have a little control or show, there just isn't enough material, they broke up after tonight, we're basically out of equipment right now, so while us writers work on the script and the art department try to stay one step ahead, the wardrobe guys put a few more props in place and relax with their favorite hobby, yeah, here we go guys, it's the first production meeting of the season, so here we go.

Having Kevin direct this with some people needed a little more vacation as an executive producer of Friends. The last thing Kevin Wright seems to need is more responsibility, but he will personally direct at least 10 episodes in the next season. The week on that stage with that cast is really what makes it worth it. We have continued well, we are in the wedding chapel. It is continuous from the last episode. The production meeting is the first time all the department heads met to prepare for the episode. 1 where our effects, with the night of the show just four days away, flip through the pages of the latest script discussing everything from costumes to props to makeup.

Ten Ross and Rachel approach the table, their faces no longer ink, and they are out of ink. on their faces, however, there is a should see a complete letter because because you are writing to your associate to be an S that is not covered in Ross, the ideas that they have observed so much that is said and now the makeup works like this . that when I do the makeup I should cover it, okay, oh, it depends on how I want to play it if I'm the finished production meeting. Kevin Bride does a quick tour of the sense to make sure everything is in place for the The next day's rehearsal, those that have, should come from this corner and basically stop right here, it really makes you feel, it's a fire thing, it's the first thing you've worked on in five years.

I've never seen you down here. On stage everyone is right, Matthew Perry or Nietzsche Mary, how are you? I almost don't recognize who this guy is after his summer hiatus. Cast member Matthew Perry reunites with his executive producer. All of that had problems. Stay in V, man in the and me. I'm leaving, one left, let's do that cut after Timbers, oh my god, are they all getting married? The writers' room is the usual center of activity as they continue to fine-tune script filming on the go. The rehearsal begins with Kevin the cast and crew picking up the story from the previous season's cliffhanger so everyone has seen the last episode of last season here we go oh my god, everyone is getting married?

We were there in the first days of rehearsal. It's really about the excitement of here's the news. Determination has that atmosphere like a A group of children on the playground I have linked them together and they have created their own game. What if we do this? What if we do this? Where should we start? You think about Alaska, but yeah, well, last night we left the Duck Dynasty boy team, I wish you did. let him believe it all again well, I love you last night with the dye society, say hello, maybe she's there to be it again.

I love you, writers see scripts in hand hanging on every line of dialogue if a joke isn't funny they are looking at a long night of rewriting, there are 12 of us because the way life works is that today you are not always active. I may not be at my funniest for some reason. We know that there are about 150 people waiting for the new thing. The version of this has to be on stage at 8:30 in the morning, everyone thinks they can do it and I'm sure there are plenty of people who can. I think it's not as easy as it seems, otherwise we wouldn't be there. to 5:00, 6:00, 7:00 in the morning with 14 incredibly smart people, it's not hard to be funny, it's hard to be funny in a way that translates into the show and that you can broadcast on television, but not having time to worry about not being just having to be great at it no, you've been different three days it's driving me crazy immediately television is a medium for writers they get paid very well for being smart and funny the hours are long and the schedule It's crazy some shows come out early, I mean it just depends on the nature of the beast, but if it's a show like Friends where you're here until four, five andsix once you're pretty far into the season and it gets harder, yeah, that's harder, right?

Then you got married and a woman, all in one, especially depressed and happy, really something even more. Oh, much more interesting and suddenly we take a step forward, we can't just abandon the fact that they have magic markers and continuity priorities come first. The episode begins last year with Ross and Rachel waking up in their Las Vegas hotel bed with writing on their faces. Do you have any clothes? Yes, not really. The debate revolves around whether or not the writing should still be visible when they go down. breakfast the question is they don't write on your face oh damn a rule is elavil indelible but then since they cover it don't do it to your body because when you write something the next day it's less that's what I was saying if this.c is there but it's weaker and then the next time we see them it will be one day later they are in the cafeteria and it's already happened that I would have to be very weak in the morning and don't you see it here incredible.

I really thought I would have told you that this morning's rehearsal is an important moment for the script supervisor. Joe LaVon, let's go through all the dialogue and see what we have to do, the changes we were long today, I tend to show them, so they will probably come in and trim from yesterday, the scripts grew a lot, it was like we were like that. nine minutes long it's midnight today and after a long rewrite session, head writers Adam Chase and Greg Malins take a few more minutes to correct another pass of the script tonight three.

I was less interested in solving story problems than finding seven pages to tell which is really difficult in the script that works because it would be the first day of camera blocking for the 1999-2000 season it is the first day of cameras Obama said that comedies situations are filmed using multiple cameras in each scene, your friends use four and sometimes five to film all the action and then get closer to your camera. Blocking is the process anywhere in the scene, where are the cameras and what are they photographing? They'll be standing here with their hands raised to open up and you.

They want to see each other. The priest will stand there to prevent the camera dollies from colliding with each other. The camera assistant places numbered tape marks on the stage floor that tell them where to be in each scene. Standards are used to mark where. the actors will be there, I make it funnier since Jericho, I like it to just explode, yeah, so that's all I say, let it go, man, they don't have to do it with each other, okay, that's part of that part from I guess it is So we'll clean it up tomorrow I think we're fine.

The day of the show is finally here for hours before filming begins. 500 fans line up for 300 seats to watch the premiere episode of Friends. They meet. My favorite characters. I only want. go see Rachel Christine from the area and what Chloe has made me eight more ticket holders with the six productions right away good night of filming on this show not only is it booming it's almost like friends from the club it's really hard to describe certainly there's a hint of Beatlemania and the audience stands up, they've been waiting for an hour and there's definitely excitement and energy and it's like a concert.

Oh wow, okay, I'm excited, now we're excited, dreaming that if everything

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well, it'll take about five hours. To film the 22 minutes of real time of the show, the cameras are moved into position and the first scene begins, you take mine, four camera marker, each scene is filmed several times, there is a surprising amount of rewriting between takes. Can't. I also can't believe Ross and Rachel got married. I know I didn't even know they were dating again. I don't think there are many dates because they are drunk. I don't think you're understanding it as much as they are. they are incredibly attracted to a very drunk Emily, something fun and emphatic there.

I don't think they are going out as much as they are completely

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of alcohol. The first shot of the wedding chapel scene fell a bit on David, he stretches out his ears as the cameras reset. They quickly try and come up with something funnier, finally they go with Matthew Perry, you know what? Why don't you ask him? And that, because he is so similar to that guy, there are many quotes, they are acting with Stanford blood, I am today. I'm just saying that they are completely

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of alcohol, both dating and two bottles of vodka walking around in human form.

Yes, seven minutes later, they are ready to take two. I can't believe Ross and Rachel got married. I know. I didn't even know they were dating again, well I don't think they're dating as much as two vodka bottles walking in human form. The change as we go is really a good testament to how smart the showrunners are. are and I've done a lot of shows in the past where there was a kind of tyrannical, don't touch the words and it's just not the way to do a show, if the joke doesn't work you just see this whole bunch of smart people. people get together and come out and tell you a joke, the audience will tell you what works and what doesn't, things to make us laugh, sometimes they don't understand, sometimes they understand the setup and then you don't.

I don't even need the joke. I'm going to jump back on each roll of the dice and then come back to... after the dice are rolled, it takes a moment and then it comes back, this is the king in a half hour comedy, well there are a lot of them. Of the things that the director wants to bring to the table is a very short period of time to do everything and, therefore, yes, speed is a necessity, speed and a very good pair of shoes, action, let's get married, when you have left to get married, I suppose it is possible. it'll be even more forced enthusiasm oh don't you think it's fun to play that kind of bubble switch let's get married I get it man I didn't think it was funny I guess the horse gets married I guess we're getting married I guess we'll move on boys. we are the call to move forward is the battle cry to prepare for the next scene as the cameras pan across the state the writers continue to release new jokes okay all the Songtan a puppet I'm 9 years old yeah it's perfect it's an interruption. a problem call it was a problem like I'm going to eat it I'm out here this is where I used my money I like that great later it's a buffet Joey says this is where I make all my money back Kevin there are slot machine changes that come in handy Sure they are Ready, humor me, it's the waitress, I'm starving, it's the birthday boy, this is where I get all my money back, so the completion of this team triggers a frenetic route of activity, dressers and shooters tear up the buffet from the Caesars Palace to make room for the next scene, a scene change can take up to 20 minutes, but with comedian Jim Bentley to entertain them, the audience has no time to get bored, there's no doubt about it, there's nothing like a table of farm, they are simply complete. maniacs, when it comes to a sitcom, it is the closest thing to live theater, as television makes the actors perform for the audience and their comments are crucial, we play the audience all the time, very important, it is as a test to see if the material works, if the jokes work, if a story follows, if the audience is with you, you know, if we've given them enough exposition along with the jokes, we've done 120 of these things, but our energy just rises every time there is an audience.

I still get nervous before shows and I think it's, in general, you know it's like putting on a one-act play every week. It was crazy, well what's the problem? You know, it's not like it's a real marriage. Oh no, when you get married in Vegas, you only get married in Vegas Oh, what are you talking about? If you get married in Las Vegas, you're married everywhere, really, yes, my God, ask well, it's not so clear instead of just talking about herself and I'm not Rossoneri, oh my God, it's the figure that, oh my god, it has. to be older, I also left my sister, I understood, it's very difficult, oh my God, but they didn't laugh about it.

Well, what if they want faster? Oh my God, we're just not very bright or intelligent: Marla and David run a very democratic program. There is a question about whether or not the implications of a prank by Phoebe are understood. So what do they do? They put it to a vote based on that joke. Welcome, my God, who at some point in the past you left. Mary, what do you still have, are you all you have? Crayon marker rock the bottom line here they can't stay married dad even a little bit through very obedient ears it's a difference of opinion and when that happens in America you don't get to the By the time I'll write to people, there's something more fun than stopping saying the word marriage.

We have it. We are in a drunken error. It is funny. Here we are talking about the light instead of stopping saying the word marriage. Actually, there is. the worst hangover in the world, yes, and when that happens in a marriage, if it's not a marriage, this is the worst hangover in the world, like Mozart, you just come, but actually someone else, like Mozart, someone else had the area, so it's usually for someone else there. I know these guys like to mold it, someone, someone, someone who had pinched something in the drunk area, drunk is just and then coming out of it, it's just a moment, even for someone open to the right way to spin it , but yes, when you finally put it on. and I'm afraid the audience loves it, so you have to floss.

That's all after 52 takes of 14

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and seven rewrites, so more than five miles of exposed film is rushed to the lab where the 120 seconds will be developed overnight. The Friends episode is officially available. Joke. I have 23 more episodes to film. What are you waiting for? The next key step in the creation of Friends takes place in Steve Prime's editing room. This is a difference of opinion. We run about 30,000 feet of film. for all four cameras, which is about 12 hours of footage for a half-hour show, then we synchronize it so that all four cameras play on my machine simultaneously and starting Monday morning I start putting the show together, the difficult part.

Editing is where you have problems and that's where you work the most and when that happens in the United States, of course, there are many different ways I could mention it. I could easily change it to this shot which I avoided because she went out of frame the shocking ways of being close the television is a close up medium so I could go straight from there and then go in for a close up so this is another option. It could do things in our marriage. This is the world that has worked very well. way to cut in China, I chose to play it all up close, it happens in America, marriage, this is the world, sometimes the audience responds stupidly if I go with the real lab, so the laughter continues through the next line until his next reaction and it's five six seconds and in the world of television that's an eternity sometimes we have to put in a glass sir that's shorter sometimes we do it to finish faster after three days of editing Kevin Brides and Marta Kauffman projected the first draft.

I don't want that joke, I feel like it's cheap, doesn't mean you don't know, is it funnier to go to that wider shot before since it was funnier as a reveal, but try that one when she screams and sees Joey? She stays scared, she seems to calm down after shouting that she is coming or that she will come out faster or something like that. Kevin now joins Steve to work on changes when he's not on stage directing an episode. Kevin can always be found in the edit where he sees each show through this painstaking post-production phase.

Okay, let's try to cut this shot in the same place you did. Let's try it again and then try to get back to this screen and then finish here. Well, this is how the scene was finally edited after making the changes. The big challenge is to make the program have the exact duration of 22 minutes. This program lasts three minutes and 40 seconds. I've heard it's very good. They cut Steve and me into a minor surgeon-like cut. But there comes a certain point where you're only left with the things you really like, so how do you keep them all?

It has taken us some time after editing the program and handing it off to various technical experts, where every frame of The Movie and every second of audio is carefully examined and polished. Here, husband and wife team Mike and Casey Crabtree add sound effects in a process known as Foley, where Foley artists were originated in the 1920s by a man named Jack Foley. boy, these are my shoes, everyone has his favorite shoe collection. These are heels that make a very, very, very high pitched sound and I use them for hooker heels and I even have Spice Girl shoes that are hard to walk in.

I'm going to do it. a song, now I'm friends with Phoebe, she's running, she'll go from a cement surface to a carpet surface, you reflect what's on that screen, you get into character, you're that person,okay, pretty good, I felt comfortable with it, sorry, sorry, how are you? how are you? You don't know me, okay, the essential tools of Foley artists, accessories, every imaginable object to produce sounds, it's okay to say we don't like it, we'll do it over and over and over again until we like it, that's the end of us. call, okay Tom, we'll do it one more time, you have to have really good timing, mm-hmm, work for me, come on, it sounds holy, it's really complicated.

Marilyn's music editor, Marilyn Davis, has come to meet with associate producer Jamie O'Connor and his colleagues. -producer wendy knoller IU music publishing for TV shows specific niche sitcoms screen the show and determine where the music is necessary I think in this normal transition it's okay I don't think we have to do anything yeah just move on and no You will go For each show there is a large amount of music that the composer delivers to publishers each year, about four or five new batches a year that could work and, in industry parlance, the track is the main title: Hi Kate, okay?

We ended up good, bad regulars I thought they were deaf thanks to booking the next day in a studio across from a store a few miles from the Warner Brothers lot Marilyn

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over several versions of the composer Michael wraps the music for the opening of the scene one, that's great, are you? shorten it a little bit, yeah, to get the piano. I thought about music, yes, what happened well while she was still asleep. I can take out half of that second sentence. Here we make sure that both the mood and the situation and the physical fit exist, which is really what music editing is. means that editing is cutting to fit, it's really surprising how long it takes us to make a program with 20 cubes, three seconds each.

Hungary, that's already cut, okay, yeah, and the comedies just for me is like boom boo-boom boo-boom every week and everyone is doing their job and everything comes together in the mix in the mix all the different sound elements dialogue laughter Foley effects and music are combined by engineers Charlie McDaniel and Kathy Oldham their job is to set the proper levels for each track and filter out unwanted noise and hiss, okay there's a frequency I missed that appears on this edition, so it could have been a different opportunity. Put some filters here. I'm trying not to single out Kathy and usually play to get that frequency. right, which lift do you want to use we have to listen, okay, Georgie here, okay, that Harry there with your well-defined basement.

In fact, I think two is better. I think one sounds like a hospital we were supposed to get married in. There would be a clear sell for four hours or five hours to complete a half-hour comedy, so we're known as the mix group in the half-hour comedy, ah, I can't do my full 45 seconds that we're doing. 35 now remember I'll be Hillary, we lost the character and they're always happy and there's always like three different little dialogues at the same time, so it keeps you interested, it's got great wit when you have so many. shows on TV now that are full of crap and I'm just stupid and go back and forth to friends property for the last five years and it's been a great show.

I'll be there for you, remind us of the way we act, catch your hair Barney doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo doo-doo-doo-doo and they think so, I laugh every day my life goes to be longer thanks to my friends. I feel incredibly lucky that there is a staff that embraces everyone. these characters when I was home sick from school I watched The Odd Couple when my kids my grandchildren were home sick from school they go see friends that's the coolest thing in the world to me it's one of the most fun jobs I think you can get paid so it's a rare situation where you go to work every day and you really hope to see each and every person who works on your show come away with something that's so creatively satisfying and such a wonderful relationship, a good group. of actors they sound like everyone who came together and the stars were all aligned and everything turns out well and I don't think there is anything better than these experiences.