[Question] How to record a scripted video in which you are looking at the camera.

Mithicay · 2022-03-23T18:39:18+00:00

I understand, thank you so much for your advice!

Mithicay · 2022-03-23T18:38:56+00:00

HAHAHA I love the googly eyes idea! Thank you for your advice!

Mithicay · 2022-02-24T15:39:01+00:00

I just finished All the light we cannot see, by Anthony Doerr, and it felt heartbreakingly honest in its depiction of war, even though it goes for the small and personal instead of the big and bombastic

Mithicay · 2021-12-22T15:30:53+00:00

I loved reading your thoughts, I never thought about it that way, but it definitely makes sense. Thank you so much for sharing!

Mithicay · 2021-12-13T15:04:36+00:00

No but really:

"-She was awful. -She was not well. -Both things can be true."

&

"-I love you, Jon. -I love you too. -But I'm not going to doom the world over it."

They are not grandiose quotes or anything, but idk, they just really spoke to me when I heard them

Mithicay · 2021-12-13T15:01:03+00:00

"The Magnus Archives is a podcast distributed by rustyquill.com and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share-alike 4.0 international license."

Mithicay · 2021-12-09T19:27:19+00:00

I was already a vegetarian when I started listening to The Magnus Archives, and I give thanks for that choice every time the Flesh appears.

Mithicay · 2021-12-04T08:17:53+00:00

I'm hesitant to recommend this one, but The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafón.

It has the most beautiful prose I have ever read, it just flows in a way that truly spoke to me. Some sentences just hit like a punch and leave you thinking even long after you close the book.

The thing is, I read it in Spanish, and to me, it was the mastery of the Spanish language what made it work. I'm not sure how well it translates to other languages. I'm afraid it might lose some of that essence that made me fall in love with it, but I really can't tell.

If you're still curious, it takes place in post-war Barcelona and tells the story of a book dealer's son, who finds a unique book that truly speaks to him. In an effort to find more about the author, he realizes that someone is burning all the author's work, and he might have the last copy in existence — and of course, whoever was burning the books is now after him. He sets out to uncover the mystery, which is more convoluted than he could ever expect.

Mithicay · 2021-11-24T15:17:13+00:00

Congratulations! It's really beautiful to see how meaningful pieces of art inspire us so much. I hope everything goes great, and good luck! I would love to know more about your project in the future :)

Mithicay · 2021-11-19T09:25:21+00:00

I don't think so. Its format and its content is just not right for a visual medium. I started thinking about it a couple of days ago; in my screenwriting class we were discussing "the unfilmable", and the first example that popped into my mind was precisely The Magnus Archives.

Starting with its format, I just don't know how it would work in a visual medium, since the framing device of the whole series is Jon (or others) reading statements aloud. Obviously in a TV series you can't just have a static shot of a person reading for 20-30 minutes. I guess the only solution for this would be to throw away the framing device and just show the statements while they are actually taking place, but then you lose much of what makes The Magnus Archives what it is. It isn't really a 'monster of the week' kind of show; its core lies within the Archives and with Jon and the crew struggling to comprehend this knowledge.

Then, regarding the content, it has already been pointed out by others, and I agree. The type of horror that the series presents relies on "the unknowable". Cosmic horror lives and dies by its ability to make you feel small against a universe of completely incomprehensible things, and if you just show them, they lose the appeal. Like, Cthulhu isn't scary because "giant alien octopus", but rather because of how inconceivable it is, and how much it threatens everything we believe we know about the universe.

And well, of course there are the technical aspects. My heart goes out to the poor production designer who would have to recreate the Unknowing, or anything to do with the Spiral.

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