Required Watching
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Go beyond the screen with the official podcast from Required Watching. This is your audio masterclass in the art of storytelling, designed for filmmakers, screenwriters, and dedicated cinephiles.Each week, host and film analyst Tray Epps (and sometimes other guests) deconstruct the craft of cinema, providing practical "Toolkit" episodes to improve your work and in-depth interviews with industry professionals who are shaping the future of film.If you're looking for actionable advice on everything from writing dialogue to sound design, or you want to hear from the directors, editors, and composers behind your favorite films, you've found your new required...
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Recent episodes
- For Glen - A Tribute to Glen Hansard
- EPiC: Baz Luhrmann Found 68 Boxes of Lost Footage and Made the Film He Actually Wanted to Make All Along
- Kokuho, EPiC, and the Biopic Problem: Why the Best Films About Artists Aren't Biopics
- Kokuho: The Highest-Grossing Japanese Film Ever Was Made by Someone Japan Doesn't Fully Claim
- Memories of Murder: Bong Already Told You Everything in His Second Film. We Just Weren't Ready
- Why J-Drama Structures Its First Episode Like a Short Film and What That Does to the Rest of the Series
- The Pilot Episode That Lied to You: TV's First Impression Problem
- Shoplifters Won the Palme d'Or and Western Critics Still Couldn't Explain What It Was About
- The Black Filmmaker in the British Industry: What the Statistics Don't Say
- The Logline Problem: Why British TV Keeps Commissioning the Idea Instead of the Story