by Film School | Oct 30, 2022 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #309 You And Your Audience Are you responsible for finding your own audience? And how much of your storytelling is a collaboration between you and your audience? This week, we dive into the realm of who we’re writing for and how it impacts our...
by Film School | Oct 29, 2022 | Episodes, Spooky Season
Episode #308 Halloween II (1981) Why won’t he die? Jamie Lee Curtis is back in danger! Michael Meyers just can’t seem to be stopped, even when she’s supposedly safe in the hospital. It’s one of the only sequels we can think of that...
by Film School | Oct 27, 2022 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #307 How To Finish (Revisited) We call it “finishing energy.” It’s the effort it takes to push something all the way to the end. Usually, it’s far more than we ever imagined. So, how do we muster “finishing energy?”...
by Film School | Oct 26, 2022 | Episodes, Spooky Season
Episode #306 The Descent (2005) If we stay here, we’ll die. Six women enter an unmapped cave . . . and shit goes down. This week for Spooky Season, we’re diving into Neil Marshall’s The Descent, which might have the coolest freaking movie...
by Film School | Oct 25, 2022 | Cutting Room Floor, Episodes
episode #305 How Important Are Ideas? How important are ideas? Super important, right? Of course! BUT . . . are they the most important thing when it comes to telling a great story? What about execution? If an idea is just an idea until it’s fully...
by Film School | Oct 24, 2022 | Episodes, Spooky Season
Episode #304 Halloween (1978) Was that the boogeyman? As a matter of fact, it is! For our first-ever “Spooky Season,” we’re watching a horror touchstone, and a seminal moment in “slasher” film history: John...
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