Ryan Perry's TVP Blog

Development Notes: My call with Jane Marlow was very helpful for the development of my second draft. An overall very nice amount of positive feedback, I received notes that the elements of Humor, depiction of teenage stress and friendship were very well done and had a grounded yet whacky element to them . The main thing I have been told to develop a bit more is the scene in which Laci starts to try and figure out who stole her drumsticks, the overall feedback was that she didn't have to have a whole monologue in her head and spell it out for the audience, it also felt very out of place with the established tone and style. The rule of "show don't tell" was mentioned. We discussed an alternative way to go about doing this scene which was to have Laci bump into the characters on her way out of the building and having these realizations so we are in the same position as her, But overall very useful and positive feedback. I thank Jane once more.

  TV Pilot Review: Mr. Robot: Mr. Robot is my favorite TV show of all time, I could argue for hours for the case of it being the greatest piece of storytelling ever created, every calculated twist and turn, every pitch perfect performance where every actor finds multiple ways of expressing various emotions, the punchy synth score, filling you with the same dread as the characters in the show. One of the most notable parts about it is it’s instantly engaging first episode, commonly praised for being one of the best openers of any TV Show ever and I love it too so it was a no brainer to discuss this one. The show opens with the protagonist Elliot Alderson, uttering the most famous piece of dialogue from the show “hello friend”. Elliot is talking to us, we are part of the show, a voice in his head, his friend. Elliot in the original pilot script comes off very differently, more akin to the wild internet conspiracy theorists that most hackers in film & tv are stereotyped as. This...

Short Film Review: I'm Here (2010) | Dir: Spike Jonze | Genre: Romance/Sci-Fi | Run Time: 31 mins I'm Here is acclaimed Director Spike Jonze's Absolut Vodka funded short film about a pair of robots who meet and fall in love in a world where they are second class citizens to humans. The film stars renowned and popular actors Andrew Garfield as our lead Sheldon and Sienna Guillory as Francesca, his love interest. I'm Here is essentially the blueprint of themes in what would become Jonze's 2013 feature and my favorite film of all time "Her". He confirmed this association in a press conference at the New York Film Festival in 2013 saying "I guess it's related in that it's a love story, in LA, but it's more about love in your early twenties and what love is to character in that point of their life." I definitely see what Jonze means here, in my opinion this could also be described as essential viewing before watching Her, as the scenes in ...

  Short Film Review: OPAL (2020) | Dir: Jack Stauber | Genre: Horror/Musical/Black Comedy | Run Time: 12 mins “OPAL” is the story of the titular young girl Opal’s curiosity that leads her to a creepy house across the street from her. When she enters the house, she meets three people who share their innermost disturbing struggles. Writer/Director/Animator/Musician Jack Stauber’s second short film was recently released on Halloween of this year by Warner Bros’ Adult Cartoon Comedy Network Adult Swim as a part of their “Adult Swim SMALLS” series, where he also released his previous short film SHOP: A Pop Opera (2019). Jack Stauber gained notoriety for his short 30-60 second musical cartoons on YouTube which feature his same signature Claymation VHS style seen here. This style helps create the false sense of comfort in Stauber's work. You can see elements of Opal In his cartoons listed below, Cooking with Abigail and Hope, such as the music which masks the horrors of the world surround...

Above is my edit of the amterials given to us on Wednesday's editing workshop. I feel like I have done a very good job of telling the story of the man realising the wonders of being alone with his thoughts. I think I have timed the music cues correctly, included some well placed transitions and cuts and undestood the story that is needed to be told here.

  Short Film Review: The School for Postmen (1947) | Dir: Jacques Tati | Genre: Comedy | Run Time: 16 mins The School for Postmen follows an unnamed French trainee postman (Jacques Tati) as he goes about his new daily postal duties in a rural French village, it’s really that simple and that’s why it works. French slapstick auteur Jacques Tati is most well-known for his large-scale, satirical and colourful slapstick worlds in works such as Playtime (1967), Mon Oncle (1958) & Traffic (1971). Whilst here we see a Tati still starting to discover who he is and what he does. The film is essentially the early version of what would become his first feature film Jour de fête (1949). A film which fleshes out the postman character more and actually gives him a name, François. The feature also follows a lengthier main plot centred on a fair happening in the village which has an alluring influence on François resulting in a hilarious and frantic finale. I was first turned onto Tati’s wo...

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