Monthly Archives: September 2012

OUAT – Tell us how you Introduced someone to Once Upon a Time

I’ve seen many Tweets over the past few weeks telling me how people are introducing others to Once Upon a Time. If you did, we want to hear your stories.

How did you introduce someone to OUAT? What did they say during and after the Pilot? Did they make you play 2, 3 or 4 more episodes? Did they ask to borrow your Blu-Ray (and left their iPhone in trade?)? Did you drive them to buy their own?

Or the flip side, did the person you introduced OUAT to not like it? Still confused by it after watching a few episodes?

We want to know all your stories.

Email: feedback@onceuponatimepodcast.com
Voicemail line: 657-333-0626

We will have some time for some live call-ins this Saturday, so let me know if you’d like to call. We would love to congratulate a new Oncer live on the podcast, too.

OUAT – Creating Screengrabs for Season 2

Part of the fun of watching and analyzing Once Upon a Time is taking screengrabs or screencaps (Same thing) and pointing out little Easter Eggs some might miss (Mr. Gold’s shop is always filled with fun in the background). Myself and the deputies have done them in the past, but now I’d like to show you the readers of the blog, followers on Twitter and listeners of the podcast how to as well.

I use http://picpick.org to create screengrabs and it also allows you to add red circles and square to point out exactly what you are wanting them to notice.

Here is a picpick tutorial: http://www.letslearnit.org/en/component/content/article/99-w-new-media-web20/694-picpick-getting-started

What nice about picpick is that you can use it on anything on your screen.

Practice on OUAT vids on Hulu, ABC.com and Itunes.

If you have a computer that can record TV shows through it, you can play it on http://www.videolan.org/vlc/index.html and you a choice called snapshot to create a screengrab.

Here is a list of many other screengrab options:

http://mashable.com/2007/08/24/web-screenshots/

As good as Season 1 of the OUAT Fan Podcast was, the more we work together, Season 2 will be a million times better.

As you do a rewatch on your computer, and you find some Easter Eggs, try some screenshots with squares, arrows, etc. Try to save them as gifs, then email them to me.

If get good enough, and like to do these, you could be a part of the Screencap peeps.

OUAT – That darn Storybrooke Library door and other “issues”

Okay, so I’ll let go of some issues with continuity, like;

Emma and Henry’s crazy continuity challenged walk down all kinds of sidewalks of town (See ‘The Thing You Love Most’), or
the closed up window on the library that was boarded up early in The Thing You Love Most

then was blacked out a few scenes later in the same episode

But in the Season 1 finale (“A Land Without Magic”), we see that the “library” that housed Maleficent’s curse was locked up with a chain, right?

Now, interestingly enough, in “The Price of Gold,” we see this same library door open as Emma and Henry walk by

What the heck???