Uncover the Mysterious Power of the Ladybug Effect with Greg Porper – SYS Podcast Episode 535 Exclusive!
Greg Porper
Of course. I have written the script with Kyle in mind to play Larry and at the time I was in the Deadline Junkies writers group, Deadline Junkies, which I know has been shout out before on this podcast, but the fact that the actors get to read that there are amazingly talented actors that get to read the pages out loud and even though it’s a cold read you really get to hear what your words sound like and you really pick up on the rhythms and you can realize like wow this line of dialogue is so wordy and no one talks like that or you can you can pick up on the fact of like okay there’s really a lull here it’s just feeling slow like you’re you know I’m looking around and people are looking at their watches okay that’s not working it was like great to get that like in-person feedback and obviously there was rounds of notes from the people in the writers group who were all giving really constructive notes after the read on certain pages so development like heavily went through Deadline Junkies um that was once though there was like a finished story at play but that was a lot of those page one rewrites came from notes we heard in Deadline Junkies notes that I had sent off to other trusted writer friends that I know in a few cases I sent it to someone who was just not in the business at all because I just wanted that perspective and usually if a note was if you hear a note once that’s one thing and again I clock every single note every single note I’ve ever received I’ve written down in a in a google doc um even when we were in Deadline Junkies I had recorded people’s notes back to me so I in case I didn’t miss anything when I was you know quickly writing stuff down but if you hear that note like a second time now like I star it I bold it I move it to the top and I said okay there’s something like what’s the note behind the note or in this case like what’s the thing we’re seeing and then especially if you get it a third time that’s usually when I’m like really like okay this is something that really needs to be addressed because there’s times where you can get a note the same note from two different people that don’t like something but I really like it and it’s this objective note and this is what I want to do but there’s other times when you hear from a third person and ultimately our goal of this movie is not just to make we want to make something that we liked and then we loved because that’s what Don’t Tell Ari is it’s the movie that it’s like it’s my favorite movie it’s like the type of movie I’ve always loved um but also I can’t just I have to be mindful of how this is being received in the world and I want this to be something that other people will like too and I do want to take mainstream approaches so I wanted to take creative risks but at the same time like if we’re getting the same kind of note like this thing is just not working for us that’s something to really take into consideration to think to think well if it’s not working for these three people there’s a whole other slew of people it may not work for so let’s like just talk about it not necessarily fully changing but like let’s address it
