Organizing, Launching, Getting Psyched!
Hello everyone, and welcome to the official website/blog for the new movie podcast After Suppertime! This podcast is hosted by my boyfriend Colin, and me, Nikki, as a way to watch more movies and also learn more about the techniques and writing behind them. We love going out to dinner, or staying in and cooking a new meal, and then sitting down to watch a movie. Afterwards our conversations were so fun and, at least sometimes, rich that a nugget of an idea began to grow in my head that maybe we should start a podcast. Then, last month, I chose to participated in a Letterboxd Scavenger Hunt Challenge. This challenge entailed watching 31 movies in 31 days, all my choice with just a one sentence guideline each. So many of the ones I chose seemed like movies Colin would love and so we watched a lot of them together. After we would finish a Sunday mini marathon and discuss the titles I would get so excited and into the conversation. That was when I decided that a podcast needed to happen.
After I proposed the idea to Colin he agreed to cohost with me, and so I set off trying to design and mold the show, gather equipment, and learn how to put one of these things together. I knew I wanted to cover a different theme or topic per week—something like color, “what if”, genre, perspective, etc. Choosing a concrete topic that can be communicated by film, or tie into filmmaking in some way, as a launching point would help narrow down the 1-3 movies we were willing to watch each week while still allowing for a wide range of film titles. From here we were initially going to talk about the movie and review it, dip a little into the technique of the film, and then give examples of how it tied into the theme of the week. The idea slowly morphed into watching two or three radically different titles each week tied under a theme, where then we would give our general thoughts and reviews of the film, then talk a little about the theme—what it is, why we picked it, how it relates to movies in general, anything in that realm. Then we’d talk about how each movie fit into the theme, followed by a discussion of how the two movies, though wildly different, tie into each other as well. Lastly I would do my due diligence and find some interesting trivia about each movie to round out the episode.
After crafting this format I was hooked on this idea of starting the podcast and couldn’t wait to get started. I picked the theme, the movies, set up social media accounts, and got everything ready to go. All that is left as of this blog post is to record, which is set for Sunday, edit, and post our very first episode! So what does that entail?
Colin and I have watched Spike Lee’s Do The Right Thing and The Coen Brothers’ No Country For Old Men for the theme of Building Tension. This episode will be all about how these filmmakers used set design, sound, specific visuals, and directed their actors in ways that ramp up the tension, discomfort, and anxiety you feel while watching them. The movies may be nothing alike but there is a lot to talk about and compare here, and we can’t wait to get this episode out for you! Hopefully you’ll stick with us, because we have so much more planned, including:
An episode about Perspective where we talk about The Deer Hunter and The Little Girl of Hanoi
The entire month of October we’re going to focus on Horror movies…but with a more specific theme than just genre.
A Rick and Morty themed episode where we watch one movie reference in each of the three seasons, under a more specific theme than just the show. (Check out my Letterboxd list for a complete look at what we have to choose from!)
And all of that is just scratching the surface of After Suppertime. Thank you for giving this post your time and hope you enjoy this first episode, and those to come!