Although I HAVE timelined, taken rewatch notes, and done clothing records all at the same time before - it SEVERELY lessons my enjoyment of the process (and makes me either watch the episode really really slowly, or it makes me more prone to miss things.)
After some trial and error, my process looks like this:
1. Episode airs - watch on TV and enjoy, write quick reaction post. 2. Download episode - timeline. 3. Get DVDs - watch - confirm timeline, take notes for rewatch post, cap all clothes worn by Sam and Dean Winchester from every angle possible. (That sounds like a lot, but you have to understand that basically it can take me 2+ hours to watch one episode when I'm doing this stage.) 4. Go through caps of episodes - this is a painstaking process where I have to go back through my master indexes of clothing and compare the new clothing caps to older caps to determine whether we've seen the shirts before or if they are new.
Occasionally I have to return to episodes for further research. Also, occasionally I'll have done all these steps, and then sit down just to watch and old episode and enjoy it, and I'll spot something I totally missed during the first 3+ viewings (such was the case the other week when I discovered that Dean picked up the leather jacket from John's motel room in the Pilot....I have seen the pilot more times than I can count, but I had never noticed that before.)
Other things happen too - like, originally I wasn't capping YoungDean and YoungSam in After School Special, because I figured the clothes would be different...it was really just a miracle that part way through the episode I recognized this shirt...then I had to go back to the beginning and check the whole thing over again.
Anyway, long story short: I've always had an eye for details - basically, all I have to do is sit down, tell myself what details I want to notice - and I'll notice them.
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Date: 2011-01-29 02:25 am (UTC)Although I HAVE timelined, taken rewatch notes, and done clothing records all at the same time before - it SEVERELY lessons my enjoyment of the process (and makes me either watch the episode really really slowly, or it makes me more prone to miss things.)
After some trial and error, my process looks like this:
1. Episode airs - watch on TV and enjoy, write quick reaction post.
2. Download episode - timeline.
3. Get DVDs - watch - confirm timeline, take notes for rewatch post, cap all clothes worn by Sam and Dean Winchester from every angle possible. (That sounds like a lot, but you have to understand that basically it can take me 2+ hours to watch one episode when I'm doing this stage.)
4. Go through caps of episodes - this is a painstaking process where I have to go back through my master indexes of clothing and compare the new clothing caps to older caps to determine whether we've seen the shirts before or if they are new.
Occasionally I have to return to episodes for further research. Also, occasionally I'll have done all these steps, and then sit down just to watch and old episode and enjoy it, and I'll spot something I totally missed during the first 3+ viewings (such was the case the other week when I discovered that Dean picked up the leather jacket from John's motel room in the Pilot....I have seen the pilot more times than I can count, but I had never noticed that before.)
Other things happen too - like, originally I wasn't capping YoungDean and YoungSam in After School Special, because I figured the clothes would be different...it was really just a miracle that part way through the episode I recognized this shirt...then I had to go back to the beginning and check the whole thing over again.
Anyway, long story short: I've always had an eye for details - basically, all I have to do is sit down, tell myself what details I want to notice - and I'll notice them.
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