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#5 – Joe Swanberg (writer-director-producer) from Chicago

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Joe Swanberg (Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas) discusses his new 8-episode series Easy for Netflix using the same improvisational style he developed to make his numerous indie features.

We talk about:

  • Writing, directing and producing Easy
  • Casting over Skype
  • Improvising vs. sticking to a script
  • Scheduling in movies vs. TV
  • Shooting in Chicago (as much as possible)
  • A typical day on a Swanberg set
  • Pitching an idea to Netflix
  • Post-production strategies

Quotes from the show:

“There was no rule book for how to do a show like this.”

“The characters are all coming from autobiographical places in terms of my connection to them.”

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#10 – Alexander Mirecki & Morgan Krantz (creators of Neurotica) at Atwater Village

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Alexander Mirecki (All Together Now) & Morgan Krantz (Babysitter) talk about making indie features and creating a webseries, Neurotica, currently in its second season

We talk about:

  • The fundamentals of making a webseries
  • The importance of episode length
  • Deriving stories from real life
  • Translating ninety seconds into half an hour
  • Shifting storytelling from season to season

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Quotes from the show: 

“We’re building out a world where we want threads, but they can’t be relationships. It’s about lonliness, ultimately, the show.”

“We like to say (Neurotica) is like Seinfeld on acid.”

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