Movie in the Making

Charlie shares seven essential strategies for giving helpful feedback on creative projects, drawing from his experience transitioning from video game development (Subnautica, Natural Selection) to independent filmmaking. The insights come from months of working closely with writers on their Christmas movie screenplay "Nutmeg and Mistletoe," where they aimed to transform a good B-script into an exceptional A-script through thoughtful feedback. Do no harm - creative work is fragile and requires...

I interview the two writers on our Christmas movie to to how the project got it's start, how they work as a writing pair, how scripts are different than games, how and what a logline and beat sheet is, book recommendations, game pillars in Subnautica, what we feel is essential in a Christmas movie and our favorite Christmas movies and why.YouTube video interviewhttps://youtu.be/OJuBJ01QP3oBook RecommendationsSave the Cat, by Blake Snyder (Loglines, beat sheets)The Hero with a Thousand Faces, ...

Introducing the other crew on A Christmas Letter - Peter Herro is the director and Julia Knox is a producer. We talk about how we met, their origin stories, moving between games and film, traffic, money and competition for top Fortnite creators, 90s nostalgia in film, open world games and film story.WTF Movie Trailerhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXpShtPI2Og@DirectingPete YouTube - Unreal Editorhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5YM-ZZgw1keO-cyFKa2TOAJulia Knox’s “Barefoot” shorthttps://vimeo...

Welcome to a new podcast, called Movie in the Making!Get a behind the scenes look at a Hollywood film as it's made. We'll show you how the sausage is made - and hold (almost) nothing back. The creator of Subnautica (Charlie Cleveland) will bring lessons from the process of early access video games to the film world.Send us a textWhat do you think? Drop us a line! cc@abyssal.cohttps://x.com/flayrahttps://x.com/directingpete