Talk:Sandcastles in the Sand (song)

Copy edit notes
Nice to see another Robin Sparkles article; I was able to rewatch the episode but not the video. Here are some notes on my copy edit. Free free to revert anything you disagree about.
 * offered him a role in the episode on the phone. Is it unusual to offer a role like this by telephone? I think maybe strike on the phone, or explain why that's important.  Or you could state where Malins had worked with Van Der Beek before.
 * Agreed, removed. Damian Vo (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * agreed to play Simon, Robin's love interest. Since this is in the context of the song, I changed Robin &rarr; Sparkles, though I understand there's overlap, that he was Scherbatsy's summer boyfriend and Sparkles' boyfriend in the video.  Hmmm.  Would "Robin's former love interest" be any better?
 * Your change is perfectly fine. Damian Vo (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * The creators asked Tiffany to join the show after studying her videos on YouTube, which she accepted. Could rephrase this as:  After studying her videos on YouTube, the creators asked Tiffany to join the show and she accepted.  However, it's already stated that she confirmed/accepted the role so maybe it's simpler to just strike the last part of that sentence, keeping:  The creators [had] asked Tiffany to join the show after studying her videos on YouTube.
 * Makes sense to me. Fixed. Damian Vo (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * while her father is sitting in a reclining chair behind her I watched the episode and he's sitting in a wingback chair.  It's possible that the video has a different edit than the episode (see next bullet).  I found some close paraphrasing in the sentence and rephrased, also removing "reclining".
 * The reclining chair was taken from the source, either way I think it's fine to refer it simply to "chair". Thank you. Damian Vo (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Sparkles and her father are surrounded by three sandcastles, one of them have a small Canadian flag on top I only saw the one sandcastle in the episode.  Parts of the video are shown for about 2 minutes of the episode, while cutting to Robin and Barney watching it, so if the full video is 3:33 or 4 minutes then there's definitely more to it.
 * I changed to a sandcastle. Damian Vo (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * Many black-and-white interspersed scenes of Sparkles and Simon frolicking on the beach are shown. It was earlier mentioned that they just managed to finish shooting before the sun set.  It would be interesting to note, if it can be sourced, if the black and white scenes were the last shot and if they were put in black and white rather than applying colour correction from low-light and sunset hues.  (I'm just guessing at this; it may have been scripted that they be in black and white from the onset.)
 * I have no information about that lol. Damian Vo (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * but found that the pre-Funny or Die video was "more than make up" for the song. is it important/relevant to mention Funny or Die here? It seems like the source is talking about Van Der Beek in relation to Funny or Die.  There was a bit of close paraphrasing so I rephrased and summarized, removing the Funny or Die bit.
 * Thank you. Damian Vo (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)


 * "Aftermath" sounds a bit ominous as a section header. Consider if there might be a more suitable heading like Effects, Aftereffects, Influences, Later appearances, etc.
 * Changed to Later appearances. Damian Vo (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)

Please and let me know if you have any questions or comments. – Reidgreg (talk) 22:57, 2 February 2019 (UTC)
 * Thank you for your helpful notes! Have a nice day. Damian Vo (talk) 04:09, 3 February 2019 (UTC)
 * You're welcome! I felt that the last paragraph of Music video needed a little more cohesion. I tried to reorder so it built more of an overall picture, adding a little bit of general information which anyone can see from watching the episode.  Feel free to revert in whole or in part.  Again, I have not seen the full four-minute video and might not have things quite right.  The article looks GA-ready to me, feel free to ping me when it's up for review. – Reidgreg (talk) 16:49, 3 February 2019 (UTC)