[Q&A - Rebecca Shoptaw]
Hi! My name is Rebecca Shoptaw and I'm the
writer, director, producer, cinematographer
editor, and various other things
for Middlemarch: The Series.
So the idea for the show came when I was
sitting in my Victorian novel class last
year - last spring - and I was just sort
of- We were we were reading Middlemarch for
class and I was just sort of like, "This
would be really cool tool as a web series. And
then over the summer at some point I
remembered that idea and I started
planning it out and then sort of once I
got a lot of the plot layed down and
figured out ways that I could do things,
then I started actually writing it and I
wrote it for the rest of the summer and
then when I got back to school in the fall, we
started casting and started filming and
we filmed a whole lot in the fall and we
filmed a whole lot in the spring and now
we're here.
Oh my god. That's like my
favorite child. So many of these questions are
going to be like my favorite child. Umm, oh
man okay. There are two. There's that early
episode that is Fred and Max, where Fred
is wearing the succulent shirt, and I... I
think that one might have been one of my
favorites to film just because like that
was the first day I had with those
actors and there's one moment right at
the end of the episode where I was like, "Oh, this
works." And that was just like really
exciting and wonderful, so yeah I'd say
that and then the other one is the
montage - of course - with Dot and Billie
later on. There's some rain. That was just so
much film. And the improv for that
was just fantastic and it was- That was
one of the ones where like my
cinematography was a lot more
improvisational than it normally is, so
that was really fun.
Not all the
characters fit into this obviously, but
sort of like the main group of them all
really get in their- get stuck in their
own heads and in their own thoughts and
sort of tend to misread what's going
on in the world around them, wanting it
to be the way that they want it to be.
And I think they also tend to be a
little bit too idealistic, or I guess the
better way of putting it would be like they
are waiting for... that they sort of put
off their present happiness for some
imagined happiness in the future that
they don't quite know how to reach. So
there's that. And I think best traits:
they just - everyone said this in their
interviews, but they just really care about
each other, I mean and there's- there so
much love that you can feel between so
many of the characters. Yeah they just really
want the best for each other I think and
that's true of pretty much everyone and
they're not often that great at showing
how much they care about each other or
acting on how much they care about each other but
they really, yeah, they really do care about each other
which is important and I think that they all - some
especially - but they all really grow and
I think where they end up at the end of
the show is a really good place to be.
So, yeah.
Oh man, ummm....
Fred and Max.
Yeah, they're so cute and I really love
the way that the dynamic works. I think
that they balance each other out in a
way that I have not really seen a lot of
characters balance each other out
before and that's really wonderful and
they're just- I just love them a lot it's
fine.
Billie. I mean she even like
wears all of my clothes. But yeah that
that moody not straight art student vibe
is just very relatable. So yeah I would
have to say her.
Yeah it's just been
so totally different from things that
I've done before, I mean partly just
technically. You know, a lot of static
tripod shots, using an actual light kit,
and also just like lots of dialogue.
which is pretty new for me. A lot of like
dialogue-driven scenes rather than sort
of like montages and things and I've
been sort of teaching myself how to
like not cut, which is- which is great for
editing. And then just sort of in a
broader sense, and this is really part of why
I wanted to do it is it's let me develop
characters over time and really like
flesh out fictional people in a way that
like you just can't really make happen
in a short film. So yeah that's- that's
been very cool.
Oh my god. I mean I just-
The actors. Umm, man
they're gonna see this and they're gonna know
how much I care about them. But I do! I
just- it's one thing when you're sitting
in your room by yourself just writing
these screenplays and sort of having
your head to fill up with this world of
imaginary people, but it is another thing
entirely when you get to see this
wonderful wonderful group of people start
to make it all- make it all real. I mean
I've just had so much fun working with
everyone. I think we've had a great time
on set and it's been really kind of
amazing to see all the characters and
the people kind of merge, to the point
where like I I cannot imagine anyone
else playing these parts.
I'm excited for
everything. But I think the like-
the goal that I have set myself for the
release, which I feel like is acheivable
because it's always like- it's easy to get like
overwhelmed by numbers and things or
comparisons or whatever, but like the one
thing that I'm really hoping for is that
people start to talk about the
characters like they're real. You know
like, like, "I hope so-and-so gets together
with so-and-so" or like, "I hate so-and-so so
much" or like "So-and-so is my favorite." Or
something like that, where it's just sort of like
I guess just people entering into the
fictional world is not something that's
happened a lot for stuff that I've made before.
It would just be like so incredible. So
yeah, I think that is what I am most
excited for.
Yeah, um, thank you so much. It really
means the world to me that you're watching it
and I hope you like it. Yeah.
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