I was sitting on my bed on a Sunday night and had exhausted all the content I was interested in consuming when suddenly a suggestion popped up to watch a vlog from…The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, a video series that I hadn’t thought about in nearly five years.
One could very easily write a long research paper about Black Panther. Much has already been said about the importance of its powerful and groundbreaking mainstream representation, from Time Magazine’s February 19 cover story by Jamil Smith, to the Twitter campaign #WhatBlackPantherMeanstoMe begun by Kayla Sutton of the website Black Girl Nerds, to a flood […]Read Post ›
Lizzie Nichols is an illustrator based out of Los Angeles, California. She is currently a Visual Development Artist at Sony Pictures Animation, and has worked as Lead Set Designer at Rubicon Group Holdings (RGH) and is a former Disney Imagineer. Lizzie is responsible for creating animated worlds and characters that help to tell a specific story. […]Read Post ›
For a quick refresher, here are summaries for each movie: Divergent: In a world divided by factions based on virtues, Tris learns she’s Divergent and won’t fit in. When she discovers a plot to destroy Divergents, Tris and the mysterious Four must find out what makes Divergents dangerous before it’s too late. Insurgent: Tris […]Read Post ›
Greta Gerwig’s directorial debut, Lady Bird, has become a cultural phenomenon. Earning 100% on Rotten Tomatoes while garnering the most reviews in history, it would be an understatement to say that this indie film far exceeded commercial expectations. When I heard about this film, I wondered, how did this subtle look into the mundane life of […]Read Post ›
by Morgan Moore and Catherine Harlow As the first full length feature film animated entirely with oil paintings, “Loving Vincent” is unlike anything we have ever seen before. True, that may be stating the obvious, but it is one thing to know that fact and another to see it in action. Even having seen […]Read Post ›
This past week I have been enamored by the television show Schitt’s Creek, which is written and produced by the dynamic duo Eugene and Dan Levy. For the first three episodes, I found the characters to be hilarious and engaging, but was bothered by the way the episodes would unfold. I couldn’t put my finger […]Read Post ›
One of the most important parts of developing a screenplay is writing the scene cards. This consists of the breakdown of each scene, one per note card, via a few sentences. It’s where you really flesh out what works and what doesn’t work and it gives you a chance to have a concrete idea of […]Read Post ›
Part 2 of a series on Venice.
Daenerys of House Targaryen, first of her name, the last in this series and with far too many titles for me to include in the title of this piece.
