“Unlocking the Secrets of Hollywood: Shari Hamrick Grewal’s Transformative Journey from Film Crew to Visionary Producer/Director”
Ashley
Are there some really good examples of these Christmas or holiday rom coms, just some titles that if someone wants to get into this, they could go and sort of look at those. Obviously, Winter’s Garden is your film, and hopefully people check that out. But are there some other films as well that are sort of real sort of guideposts in this genre that you could just.
Shari Hamrick Grewal
Well, you have so much of it. There’s like Hallmark alone is doing a, you know, there’s like, they’re doing 100 titles. I mean, the you can go to any you can Google and just see go to any channel during the holidays and watch as many of them as you can. You know, watch them on up TV, watch them on Great American Family, watch them on Hallmark. You’ll see that there’s books written about patterns and how to write them and stuff. I mean, you can the ones you aspire to, if you’re in the rom-com space, just because it happens to be Christmas tail. You know, the holiday is always a good banner. You know, love actually, these are like those level what I would call more of a Christmas drama, not really rom comedy, not every romantic comedy. So no, I mean, there’s good ones and bad ones. I think the key is when you’re writing, if someone is listening and really wants to write a Christmas movie, and they’re not haven’t watched a bunch of Christmas movies, I think they’re going to have a really hard time doing it. It’s just for sure. Too much of a formula. It’s too much of a thing. I mean, yep, the Christmas tea writing. I mean, there’s just so many of these little tropes that I mean, a lot of writers try to stay away from tropes trying to stay away from stereotypes, because they’re trying to be unique and organically original. But in this instance, in this particular lane, they embrace trope. They embrace the stereotypes of the Christmas movies, you know, that every single movie is mostly almost, I would say 90% have a Christmas tree lighting, you know, where the whole town is around where they boom bullet the Christmas town’s Christmas tree. But there are some recognizable stereotypical repetitive marks to meet in a Christmas spread. So, you just have to be in that market and immerse yourself in watching those things. It really to get yours to come above it to because the noise is so high, and you want to be the cream that rides at the top of a very crowded market space, then that all relates to real writing, which is your character development, the backstory, is there chemistry between the two characters? Is there a cute thing that’s called a meet cute? Like how did they how are they meeting in the script? Is it adorable? Is there chemistry between these characters that you’re writing? That’s the only way you’re going to get it to elevate outside of the stereotypes of these beats that you have to hit in order to get into that market. Very tough markets, very crowded, very noisy.
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