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  • Last Week in Music and Media (ft. John Williams, A7IV) | 032

    Composer Ben Costello and filmmaker Irving Nestor discuss the news of the week as a brief summary of things they found important. #A7IV #JohnWilliams #HansZimmer

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    10 min
  • Austin Wintory and the Beautiful Abzu Soundtrack | 031

    Composer Ben Costello gives us a rundown of Austin Wintory's gorgeously crafted score for Abzu. #Abzu #AustinWintory #Composer

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    23 min
  • ARGUING WITH REDDIT GAMERS (ft. Metroid Controversy, ”Indie Games Bad” & MORE) | 031

    Indie game dev Nathan Nestor reacts to the crazy hot takes of Reddit users including a spicy take on indie games as a whole and MORE. What are your gaming hot takes?

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    23 min
  • Interview: Rob Sharma on Indie Filmmaking in L.A. | 031

    Irving interviews Indie Filmmaker Rob Sharma about his background, current projects and working in L.A. Rob Sharma is the writer of two films currently in production with Irving: "Door 32" (inspired by Jim Morrison) and "The Hooded Man." Rob's website: https://rnsfilms.com

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    50 min
  • Personal Branding 101: A Starter Pack | 030

    This week, indie marketing professional Irving Nestor discusses the first things to keep and mind and execute to start a successful personal brand to tie into your mission whether just for fun, as an influencer or in business. Learn to leverage yourself with tangible first steps and deeper brand conceptualization. #branding #personalbrand #marketing

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    TAGS: marketing for the now,social media marketing,digital marketing agency,social media marketing strategy,social media marketing tips,social media marketing for beginners,social media marketing tutorial,irving nestor,mixed media podcast,mixed media,personal brand,personal branding,personal branding tips,how to build a personal brand,personal branding techniques,personal branding 101,branding,marketing,digital marketing,marketing strategy,marketing 101,influencer

    30 min
  • ARGUING WITH REDDIT: Music Edition (ft. JK Rowling & more!) | 030

    Composer Ben Costello reacts to hot takes from all over Reddit including controversy concerning boycotting the new Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them film over J.K. Rowling. #music #reddit #podcast

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    26 min
  • Indie Game Distribution 101 | 030

    Indie developer Nathan Nestor gives details on the difficulties of distributing indie games on digital platforms such as Steam and Epic Games. Learn about the mechanisms and policies that you should watch out for with your first gaming project. #Steam #EpicGames #IndieGames

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    33 min
  • This Week in Gaming and Film (ft. GTA 6, Hitman & Inflation) | 030

    Listen for our weekly news segment! What are your thoughts on this weeks news? #FilmNews #GamingNews #MediaNews

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    7 min
  • NEWS: ScarJo vs. Disney, ASCAP Royalties Changes, Game Broadcasting Copyright Claims | 029

    Irving, Nathan and Ben discuss news for the week of September 26th. Topics including Scarlett Johansonn's case against Disney for Black Widow, ASCAP's rule changes for musicians' royalties and drama surrounding the ability to make negative videos about games such as Escape from Tarkov. #FilmNews #MusicNews #GamingNews

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    7 min
  • Why Hitchcock‘s ”The Birds” has no music | 029

    Filmmaker Irving Nestor discusses an odd musical choice Hitchcock made in the making of The Birds and his opinion on its impact on the film.

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    TRANSCRIPT [BETA]:

    Cool. Luckily, my segment's going to

     be really quick, very unstructured.

    Oh, this is the end.

     I didn't I forgot. 

    I just got a lot 

    of revenues lost.

    Now, I'm going to be very quick,

     because I really just have like a

    like a big question mark

     when it comes to my topic.

    So I'm going to read introduce the

     the podcast real quick.

    So welcome back to Mixed Media. 

    We just heard from Ben and Nathan

     about the respective topics.

    Go back to our podcast list.

    We have playlists on YouTube.

    We have our different platforms

     on all the streaming platforms. You

    can possibly think of all the ones

     that have been trashed, probably.

    But yeah, if you're

     listening on Spotify,

    you should have a guilty conscience.

     I'm just kidding. 

    But yeah, you should

     you should listen to those things, 

    because I think both of those

     were extremely important talks.

    And what I'm about to talk about 

    are just random thoughts

     on one particular film.

    So if you're looking for the most

     meaningful discussion,

    definitely listen to the last

     two episodes from this week.

    But today, I will be

     talking about the Birds

    and the Birds, a film

     by Alfred Alfred Hitchcock.

    Then did you end up

     watching any Hitchcock lately or.

    I watch every watched

     North by Northwest.

    I have not seen the birds.

    Or you're just out of curiosity. 

    I want to know what you thought

     about it afterwards. 

    I think it's a really great film. 

    You can see how it like

     impacts influences James Bond.

    But but it's a different kind

     of sonic world, too.

    It's kind of cool because I'm going

     to be playing some Bernard

    Bernard Herrmann concert,

     and that's next Tuesday.

    And we're doing Duran North

     by Northwest as part of that.

    So it's kind of cool to play that,

    to play that, too,

     after watching to watching it.

    Now, it's an interesting it's

     an interesting film.

    And like basically, I don't know, it

     just it's like it's fun to watch.

    Yeah. And as a sneak peek

     into a future episode

    that I'll probably do,

     that requires me to do research

    and maybe even read

     a book or find out 

    if I'll put that much effort

     into a podcast episode.

    But I'm just personally curious

     because I like films.

    So, you know, I might

     just do this for fun 

    and then just relay

     back what I learned. 

    But fun fact about north by northwest

    is it might be somewhat

     factually based.

    There's some interesting stuff. 

    I remember I watched the film

     and I saw Central

    Intelligence Agency

     appear on the screen

    and I lost my mind

     because I was like, huh?

    I had literally just

     learned about it.

    I've had it read and like listening

     to the interesting things

    about the CIA's infiltration

     of Hollywood, which kind of tied,

    interestingly, back 

    into what Ben was talking about

     with music and what I saw.

    I didn't expect that

     because I didn't know 

    and I knew nothing

     about north by northwest

    when I went into it,

     which is how I like to watch films. 

    I just put it on, you know,

     and I was like, huh?

    I think this might be

     one of those films that the CIA

    enjoyed because of how fun

     it was of a portrayal

    of what is actually a reality,

     which is an interesting thing.

    But anyway, that's for a that's

     that's for a different episode.

    This episode, I'm

     going to talk about the birds. 

    So I Alfred Hitchcock is kind

    of an interesting director for me

     because I feel like,

    well, I've watched four of his four

     or five of his films at this point.

    I only have one film left

     in my little library to to enjoy

    all physical copies. By the way, 

    I think I will when I understand,

    I feel like I understand

     him a lot better, 

    because I had heard

     a lot from his words,

    his quotes, and like, you know,

     what people have learned from him.

    But I hadn't actually 

    watched him write, which

     is a completely different thing.

    And I feel like I clicked with a lot

     more than I expected to.

    I clicked a lot more

     with the writing,

    I think, than I expected to,

     because I think that is underrated

    part of a lot of his stuff,

    although north by northwest

     is probably a weaker example of that.

    The that my favorites

     are definitely psycho

    and Vertigo are just tremendous films

    to me in a different category

     than the rest of the films I watched.

    But even The Birds, The Birds is a

     sort of thriller or horror thing.

    And it's I mean,

     I hope I forget to put the tail up

    the bears theriault, as you can see,

     for those who you watching on video

    or on podcast, this will be

     the episode Art. 

    We've got a poor woman

     being attacked by birds.

    This is this is the plot.

     This is what happens in this film.

    Fairly simple concept. 

    It's apparently based

     off of a book, although

    my understanding is that it's

     I mean, it was inspired by a book.

    The script is written

     based off the book. 

    Then eventually it just,

    um, the the actual

     relation to the book just collapsed.

    And they just retain the name of

     the books in the script. It's funny.

    It's an interesting film in the sense

     that it has a very simple concept

    and it's trying to do a lot,

     technically speaking, for its time,

    you know, in terms of special effects

     and all this other stuff.

    And it seems like an experiment,

     a lot of different things,

    one of which is the music of which

    and this is our Bensley,

     pretty much of which there is none.

    There is no music. 

    Like when I say none, 

    I mean, there's not a single

     note of music in this film.

    And I think that

     was an egregious error. 

    I think it was such a strange feeling

     I was watching, I was like.

    It's just something the pace

     something is just,

    you know, I realized

     there wasn't music, but I was like, 

    but that can't just be

     the only reason that 

    this just feels completely wrong. 

    I've watched plenty of films 

    with no music in it

     or a very sparse or spare music.

    And, you know, those films

     feel like they're

    they're designed to that way. Right. 

    You know, maybe they still

     would have been better with music.

    You can make the argument

     depending on the film. 

    But, you know, largely speaking,

    it still feels like

     the choice was more deliberate.

    Whereas here it just feels

     kind of flippant, like for no reason.

    He just decided not to put music

     in this film, whereas in the other

    films, he has plenty

     and plenty of music.

    So I found that strange.

     So I looked it up.

    And I want to know why

     you didn't put music in.

    Apparently, it's exactly what I said.

     It was an experiment.

    You just want to know

     what would happen, 

    which kind of goes into like this

     whole, you know, discussion about

    experimenting and stuff like that,

     like, OK, that's interesting.

    So he's trying to get samples like

     watch the movie without the music.

    And this is not a

     good idea inside of music.

    No, it's easy. They have music,

     but like maybe possible, you know.

    So some people I notice in reviews,

     like I've noticed a few reviews

    and letter box and a few analyzes

     elsewhere where people

    will say that the lack of music

     makes it more creepy.

    I don't know if I actually

     agree with that.

    I mean, Alfred Hitchcock's

     like whole like thing is terror.

    Right. Like this tension. 

    And there's other films. 

    There's plenty of music 

    and there's plenty

     like plenty of tension, you know.

    I mean, if you watch Psycho,

     that thing is like,

    you know, for forever

     being what it is.

    It's a kind of a white knuckle film.

    You know, Vertigo has sections

     that are just, you know,

    worse than worse in terms of tension

    and how much you're being pulled

     sucked into the film

    then, like, you know, a spy

     thriller or something.

    It's just so intense. 

    You know, it's bizarre because people

     will say this makes it feel creepy.

    And I just don't see why. 

    And I would like to understand better

     why people think

    that I'm not dismissing it. 

    I just want to understand why,

     because for me, it just felt empty.

    And I think one of the 

    biggest differences

     between this and other films

    that have not as much music

     is this one soundscape in general

    does not feel like it's

     telling a story like

    not just the music,

     but the entire soundscape

    doesn't feel like

     it's telling its own story.

    You know, when you're

     when you're a filmmaker,

    you're very multiport

     multidisciplinary.

    So every tool you've got 

    and even the act of choosing

     not to use the tool. Right.

    Is an act of trying to tell a story.

    And so I want all those decisions

     to feel deliberate.

    You know, that's one of my critiques 

    about like Marvel Marvel movies

     with their cinematography. Right.

    It's very sterile and,

     you know, expository. Right.

    It's effective for getting the gist

     of of for most films. Right.

    The gist of the action. 

    Right. It's not really

     it's not really as purposeful.

    Well, most of that's because 

    it's not even practical

     to make a Marvel movie that way.

    I mean, it's already

     insanely bloated as it is.

    I can't imagine trying to do

     some very creative shots

    in the middle of the production

     schedule, which, you know, whatever,

    that that's just the casualty

     in the Marvel franchise.

    Elsewhere, though,

     you know, like, you know, in

    the Hitchcock is cinematography

     is extremely deliberate,

    is dialog extremely,

     extremely deliberate,

    is a story structure

     extremely deliberate.

    Everything super deliberate. 

    Most of the time. 

    And then with the birds, 

    he just throws out the music

     and it just feels flippant.

    Right. At least to me. 

    So I would like to know

     any Hitchcock fans out there.

    I would like to know. 

    But in the comments

     or you can send us an email, 

    mixed media podcast, that Outlook dot

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    and just tell me

     what you think about the birds,

    because I think it actually has a

     more polarized reception than people

    give it credit, because it's kind of

     in the Hitchcock canon,

    because Hitchcock

     made a billion everyone films. 

    But there are certain films

     that are like, you know,

    Zio Hitchcock films,

     and The Birds is one of them.

    And I'm not sure that it's actually

    as universally loved in the way

     that his other films are loved,

    just by reading reviews

     and like looking at what people say.

    It seems as though people like this

     for its classic nature

    more than they do for it's like,

     you know, like how it holds up.

    You know, even today,

     it's like more of like

    this is a interesting film

     in cinema's history. Right?

    This kind of goes into 

    like you're reading philosophy

     because some people include impact

    into the wider, you know,

     to the wider field.

    That's something

     that's important to them. 

    When they you know, when they assess

     how much they like something. Right.

    How much they want to praise it. 

    And I can understand that

     because this film. Made in insanely.

    I mean, when I say insanely,

     I mean probably immorally.

    I mean, they literally had.

    Tons of birds on

    set trained to attack people.

    They put food in people's hair

     and other parts of their clothing

    so that the birds would attack

     the actors literally.

    I mean, they were trained 

    that they didn't hurt them,

     but people still got hurt,

    is my understanding. 

    So is this an insanely made film?

    And a lot of those scenes 

    with with the birds and the bird

     attacks are extraordinarily

    has that Hitchcock tension over it

     for being such a simple concept.

    You get some really, you know,

     jarring and exciting moments.

    But I think I just was like,

     you know, overall,

    I think the film

     was better than average 

    and that kind of , you know, hate

     on the film or anything like that.

    I don't hate it at all. 

    It's more like I think 

    this story could have been

     not just slightly above average.

    I think it could have been up there

     with his average works.

    Right. If there was music. 

    And I think Bernard does his music

     for all of all of his like

    big films or something like that. 

    I think every film

     that I'm aware of of his big films.

    Yeah. Yeah. And I think,

     you know, there's

    I think when I was listening to when

     I was watching Psycho in particular,

    I was noticing a lot more of that

     sort of like Mickey Mouse thing

    that you're talking that you were

     talking about in prior episodes.

    This is why I love this podcast. 

    I learn things and then I apply them

     when I watch things.

    So that's awesome.

    It was good. It's still good. 

    There's nothing wrong with it.

     You know, like it was excellent.

    You know, not only excellent,

     but it filled the spaces

    in a way that the film

     it told its own story .

    The music told its own story

     alongside the story.

    So, yeah, I just thought it was

     bizarre and I think it was

    a failed experiment. 

    I found, interestingly enough,

     I put a link on there, just scored

    someone who attempted

     to score the film if it had a score.

    And of course, this person didn't

     have an orchestra play their score

    or anything like that.

     It's all electronic.

    But if you imagine past that, 

    you know, if you imagine what

     this person put together past them,

    you know, I don't think it was like,

     you know, anything insane.

    It just was better already

     just because it was there, you know,

    and like these scenes were like 

    the two main characters who have this

     like love tension thing going on.

    This, you know, this will 

    she won't she will

     he won't he kind of dynamic going on.

    It's just so weird in those scenes

     where they're staring at each other

    and you get these long cuts

     to just not hear anything.

    That sounds like

     it comes from their hearts. 

    It's a strange like it doesn't feel

     right and just strange to you because

    it's such a such a strong love themes

    in his other Hitchcock films.

    Yeah. No, exactly. Very odd.

    And you know, all you're hearing,

     she's paddling across the ocean

    and all you're hearing

     is like the sparks, 

    like the soundscape

     is not even fully developed, 

    which I'm not even sure

     I can say that's a technical problem.

    I just I just don't get it. Yeah.

    But the whole soundscape

     is kind of sparse. 

    So all you're hearing is like the

     kerplunk of her her or is go through.

    She's looking across the the bay

     and he sees her man

    or future man across the

     the the the bay.

    And it's shot beautifully. 

    The film looks gorgeous, like,

     you know, like the landscape,

    at least the way it was reproduced in 

    my copy was pretty freaking gorgeous.

    It was very painterly. 

    Part of that's because 

    they actually use matte paintings

     for set extensions,

    but it blends seamlessly. 

    You know, you get these

     longing like close ups back and forth

    and you're hearing

     just kerplunk, kerplunk, kerplunk.

    It's just kind of takes

     you out of the the vibe.

    If you could hear the

     the the the water moving

    and maybe the Russel's of

     maybe if the soundscape could tell

    the story better, even if you didn't

     want to use music. Right.

    If the environment could tell you

     the story of their love

    or their potential thing

     that's going on, there's

    this tension there. Right. 

    And at least that would help. 

    But it's just kind

     of empty. It's like,

    OK. And scenes that have no terror.

    Right. The scenes literally

     just about this relationship.

    Why on earth would

     you want to make it sparse?

    I don't want to be creeped out 

    in this moment deciding

     what is going for. Right.

    So, yeah, it's kind of strange.

    So anyway, that's my that's my topic.

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