“From Boots to Broadway: How Army Veteran Ryan Smith Transformed His Life Into a Captivating Musical Journey”
So now let’s get into the main segment. Today, I am interviewing writer director Ryan Smith. Here is the interview.
Ashley
Welcome, Ryan, to the Selling Your Screenplay podcast. I really appreciate you coming on the show with me today.
Ryan Smith
Hey, thanks so much, Ashley. I really appreciate you having me here.
Ashley
So, to start out, maybe you can tell us a little bit about your background. Where did you grow up and how did you get interested in the entertainment business?
Ryan Smith
So it’s actually interesting. So I was in the army for a while and I always wanted to have kind of a creative output. So for a while, I actually tried my hand at writing and drawing comics. And I found out really quickly because I was I was going through trying to learn how to draw. And it felt like as much as I was buying books, going through trying to learn how to draw, I just I can draw very basic things. But I wouldn’t categorize myself as what I would call a good artist. So as a result, after I got out of the army, I tried to find some other ways to kind of work on that in the process. I found videocopilot.net, which was an online source for learning how to do special effects. And so, I learned kind of how to build movies kind of from the ground up. You know, you start with even if you don’t have footage, you could still have fun with after effects, kind of building some creative things. So I started making short films and kind of got my own camera and built up from there and started with short film scripts and then worked my way up to Eldritch, which was my first feature.
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