{"id":1177,"date":"2012-04-13T17:36:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamsvillecomic.com\/?p=1073"},"modified":"2012-04-13T17:36:06","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T17:36:06","slug":"finding-your-voice-and-mass-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaeleregina.com\/blog\/finding-your-voice-and-mass-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Your Voice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been fascinated this week with the idea of your specific voice in storytelling. Trying to understand the things that attract you most to a medium or say what is most on your heart. It all sort of cropped up\u00a0in me after watching this interview with one of my favorite filmmakers M. Night Shyamalan:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1glReVaHnec\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>He makes specific statement in there by saying that the reaosn he has found success as a writer is because in the end: &#8220;I&#8217;m just more me than they are them. That&#8217;s just the bottom line.&#8221; In other words be yourself, passionately.<\/p>\n<p>I really thought about what does that mean to myself as an artist. What do I care about? What themes? What genre? Am I trying to copy others or am I just playing to my interests with no mind for my audience, making impersonal work?<\/p>\n<p>I sort of realized that suspense movies have been my favorites all my life. In particular my favorite films have been: Jaws, Super 8, Unbreakable, Signs, Rear Window and Psycho. There&#8217;s a tonality in those that I love. And in the case of M Night&#8217;s movies and Super 8, a tremendous amount of heart. It lays on me to realize that sometimes I try to reach outside of these genres when I write and my voice figuratively stutters in these moments. Maybe the genres I&#8217;ve loved all my life should be embraced instead of run away from!<\/p>\n<p>As a comics artist there are very, very&#8230;. very few artists who are tackling this particular type of book. There is a vacum in this area. And something I hope I can bring into the mix with Adamsville and some of the other ideas I have poking around in my head. It will be\u00a0fun to see how others take my first suspense offering in Adamsville bk 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So how about you? What makes you tick? Are you being creatively honest? Give it a try, be more you than they are them!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been fascinated this week with the idea of your specific voice in storytelling. Trying to understand the things that attract you most to a medium or say what is most on your heart. 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