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All in Study Up
This month, Alex and Monica do another historic walk through the world of supporting characters, what roles they play in film and literature (hint: they’re important), and teach us some new words along the way.
This week Alex and Monica walk us through a deep dive of the 90 year history of horror films and how they adapt to and reflect the fears of society as a whole.
Hudson & Sonya deep dive into all facets of ADAPTATION- from their favorite book-to-film adaptations (and what makes them great), to learning how to follow their filmmaking dreams while adapting to their environmental life changes.
No matter how well you prepare for it, problems will always pop up when making a film on any budget level. Filmmaker Adam Petrey walks you through some of the lessons he learned shooting his micro-budget shorts and the creative problem-solving needed to adapt to the unexpected.
Alex and Monica explore the topic of writing characters with identities different than your own, focusing on tropes to avoid when developing the characters and how to research these identities in order to portray them most accurately.
Pepper Reed gives insight on the writing groups she’s currently a part of, what she loves about them, and even how to go out there are start your own!
There is a lot of pressure to demonstrate your originality and many times leads to artificial projects made to please others. In this video, filmmaker Adam Petrey discusses ways to stay true to yourself and how to develop your own creative identity while living your life to the fullest.
Monica Beard and Alex Oakley host a new monthly segment called "Study Up" where they'll take one topic surrounding our monthly theme, go out and explore it, and come back and report about what they learned. This week, they tell us how they started their first podcast.
Writers—stepping away from your laptop-induced solitude and connecting with people is good for you in general. And you want to be sharing your work with peers, getting valuable feedback, and highlighting weaknesses. Taking advantage of table reads and hearing it read aloud will do that in a way that reading it in your head can’t.
I think I first realized that such a thing as a director existed when I was 14 years old. The nasty voices immediately started in my head: “Only old white men get to do that fun stuff. Like Scorsese and Coppola and George Lucas. Not women. Especially not tiny hijabi Sri Lankan Muslim women from Dubai.”
