Here's the audio commentary for my third Apocalypse short.  As I explain in the video, I drew my inspiration for this one from director, Sam Mendes.

I breakdown how quickly I work on the fly when I see what I want, only doing 1-2 takes for a shot.  I compliment the very talented, Micah Parker on his additions to the character and to the scenes.  And, I forget the young acctresses name.  :)  Sorry, Savannah!

The second part of the video I go on a rant talking about Story vs. Spectacle and show an example of one piece of work I believe helps explain the difference.

I'm really trying to figure out how to portray what I mean when I tell people of a movie or a screenplay, "There is no story."  In my head, it makes perfect sense, but I'm realizing how untangible the word "story" is, so I want to try and explain it better to the audience when I talk about it.  Please enjoy!

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Here's another commentary for my short film, "Apocalypse:  The Drunk."

My purpose behind putting these pieces of content out is to give any insight and perspective to ANY aspiring filmmaker, artist, creative, just to let you know a bit about what goes through my head and the reasons behind the choices I make, artisticly.  Even if sometimes those choices don't neccessarily work out in the end.  

The important thing, is to not judge or blame yourself from them, but to learn and move onto the next.  To quote a menotr of mine, "You're only as good as your last at bat."  :)

Please enjoy!

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Ryan McCoy is a writer first, filmmaker second, entrepreneur third.  He has written and produced two feature films, and is beginning to expand out to give talks and share his experience with the next generation of young filmmakers.  

You can follow him on:

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As you'll hear during the intro, I was going back through some of my old videos and realized that a podcast with my friend Jon Veles, something fucked up and it only posted about the first 25-ish seconds of the interview.

SO, I found the raw video and audio and decided to re-post it for you all.  

Jon is a working writer, currently on TV for ABC's "Fresh Off the Boat."  I think there's some really valuable stuff in this interview because Jon and I talk about the differences between writing for film vs. TV, and also dive into our processes as writer's and how we come about making a story.

Ryan McCoy is a writer first, filmmaker second, entrepreneur third.  He has written and produced two feature films, and is beginning to expand out to give talks and share his experience with the next generation of young filmmakers.  

You can follow him on:

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Been talking about doing these for a while now and finally decided to make one.  Because I got such a good feedback about me posting the different audio commentaries for my feature film, EVIDENCE, I thought people could gain some value by me doing an audio/video commentary for each of my short films I have on my channel.  

You can't get more guerrilla than this one.  We shot during "magic hour" and only had about 20-25 minutes to film everything to keep the look we were going for.  There were literally 4-5 people, cast included, on set that day.  We rehearsed and rehearsed and then when the time was right, we got the shots.  

This is probably my favorite of the three shorts, although technically not the best.  But, I love the grittiness and dirt of not just this story, but the character herself.  

Look forward to more of these commentaries soon.  Thank you for watching, and please comment your thoughts below and share this video with friends.  Thanks!  

Ryan McCoy is a writer first, filmmaker second, entrepreneur third.  He has written and produced two feature films, and is beginning to expand out to give talks and share his experience with the next generation of young filmmakers.    

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What you'll hear first is (after my sexy, raspy, stuffed up intro) is some audio ripped from one of my videos where an intern I had working for me last summer, Kai, wanted to ask me some questions about the industry and how I produced my first feature film.  I think the questions are great and I think there's definitely some "jewels" of wisdom in there.

After that, you'll hear a complilation of audio from some of my podcasts I did last year.

I hope you all enjoy, and I hope to continue to bring you value and keep producing MORE CONTENT!  :)  I love you all.