Brian Herskowitz talks about How to Write Screenplays and his book “Process to Product” (2014)

Brian Herskowitz talks about How to Write Screenplays

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DO YOU WANT TO LEARN HOW TO WRITE A SCREENPLAY?

Interview Summary

Brian Herskowitz is a screenwriter and producer and has many credits to his name including Tour of Duty, Tio Papi, Hercules, scifi and horror movies, and a documentary on domestic violence. He teaches screenwriting and he talked to me about creating a screenplay. This is the first episode in a short series on screenwriting.

0: 45 – Brian talks about why people should and can write for screen.

2:35 – Brian talks about how some great novels fail in film.

3:15 – Brian talks about why people try to force novels on to the screen.

11:47 – Brian talks about research based and experience based screenplays.

12:40 – Brian talks about Raiders of the Lost Ark and the importance of research.

18:22 – Brian talks about maintaining internal realism in a screenplay.

20:27 – Brian talks about writing for movie like video games.

23:11 – Brian differentiates between doing short and feature length films.

25:50 – Brian talks about writing for mini-series and shows.

30:25 – Brian talks about shorts on youtube and vimeo.

33:03 – Brian talks about people who want to write a very visual script and about getting information to the audience.

36:13 – Brian talks about the best ways to get into writing screenplays.

41:52 – Brian talks about the premise of a screenplay.

45:28 – Brian talks about he breaks down a premise.

47:23 – Brian can be found at brianherskowitz.com

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/3iZJv3Z

https://www.brianherskowitz.com/

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Guests: Brian Herskowitz

Host: Cris Alvarez

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Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger interview about Horror and Speculative Fiction – “Monster She Wrote” (Quirk Books, 2019)

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Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger discuss Horror and Speculative Fiction

Interview Summary

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Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger have both extensively studied speculative and horror fiction. They’ve written a few books together on the subject and they recently won the 2020 Locus Award for non-fiction for Monster She Wrote which explores female authors of horror and speculative fiction. They also won a Bram Stoker award for the book. We spoke about the subject and the book writing process.

0:41 – Lisa talks about how she and Melanie wrote a book on female horror writers.

2:02 – Melanie talks about previous projects they did together on ghosts and spectrality.

3:48 – Melanie talks about they structured the book.

6:36 – Lisa talks about their struggle to cover a broad scope of literary history.

8:48 – Melanie talks about female use of pseudonyms in horror fiction.

11:48 – Lisa talks about women not having to hide their identities.

14:51 – Lisa and Melanie talk about the nationalities of the women they included in the book.

16: 45 – Lisa talks about 19th century female horror literature.

19:11 – Melanie talks about 19th century ghost stories and why so many female writers wrote horror.

24:00 – Lisa talks about female writers mixing violence, gore, and sex

27:45 – Melanie talks about gore in horror.

32:47 – Lisa talks about a scandalous Margaret Cavendish story she really likes.

35:30 – Melanie talks about author Dion Fortune.

37:28 – Melanie talks about how religion affected the writing these women did. Lisa talks more about Manfrone.

41:39 – Melanie talks about she did the research for the work.

44:55 – Lisa talks about how she added to her horror reading list and how some writers seem to have disappeared completely.

48:28 – Lisa talks about horror comic books.

49:47 – Melanie talks about the joy these authors took in their work.

53:36 – Lisa talks about the writers who she felt touched by.

56:26 – Melanie talks about Gertrude Barrows Bennett and Jewelle Gomez.

58:59 – Lisa talks about the Gilda stories.

1:01:20 – Lisa and Melanie talk about writing the book and getting it published.

1:07:48 – Lisa is at lisakroger.com and on twitter @lbkroger and on instagram @lisa_kroger. Their podcast is knowfearcast and monster she wrote podcast and @monsterwrote on social media.

1:09:25 – Melnaie is at melanieranderson.com and on instagram @melanieranderson7.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/31nsZDK

https://www.quirkbooks.com/book/monster-she-wrote

http://www.lisakroger.com/

https://melanieranderson.com/

http://www.knowfearcast.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-monster-she-wrote-podcast/id1498646080

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Guests: Melanie R. Anderson and Lisa Kroger

Host: Cris Alvarez

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How to overcome shyness and become a successful anime voice actor with Daman Mills

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Daman Mills is a professional anime voice actor with over 120 character credits to his name. We sat down at Anime USA 2019 and spoke about his approach to his work and some of his daunting challenges in the voice acting world.

0:29 – Damon talks about how he got into voice acting. He started out introverted but kept practicing and got into indie projects.

1:52 – Damon talks about being shy.

2:20 – Damon talks about when he felt he had made it in voice acting.

3:18 – Damon talks about how he approaches voice acting.

3:55 – Damon talks about his strengths as a voice actor such as his vocal range.

5:03 – Damon talks about his approach to recording his parts.

6:50 – Damon talks about his voice inspirations.

8:02 – Damon talks about how he gets into character psyches.

8:43 – Damon talks about his most difficult roles including Freeza for Dragonball and One Piece Stampede.

11:06 – Damon talks about wanting to work in the Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts series.

13:08 – Damon talks about the time coding work he’s done.

13:56 – Damon mentions having to make some anime words more understandable to American audiences.

14:56 – Damon can be found on twitter and instagram @DamanMills and he’s on facebook as Daman Mills voice actor.

Links of interest

https://amzn.to/2thttOC (One Piece: Stampede)

https://twitter.com/DamanMills

https://www.instagram.com/damanmills/

https://www.facebook.com/DamanMillsVA/

Guests: Daman Mills

Host: Cris Alvarez

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