Dispatch no. 11 - Updates Podcast

Really interesting to listen to all this, thanks!

My husband is a writer, but as for myself, I have never been able to create characters and dialog. I discovered well into adulthood that I am in fact on the autistic spectrum, and one of my issues is theory of mind (I mean, I can get into a character in a book but they are usually bland, and you can put "yourself" into the main pretty easily, but imagining a conversation is ultimately me talking to myself, ROFL) It is hard to create or understand the motivations of others, or that they have different tastes from myself. It's something I decided to work on when I realized this was one o f the things my brain fails at. So hearing about your process gave me some ideas for myself, like, if I have a conversation with someone and i know I'm being aspie about it, I can write it down, think about what the other person was possibly thinking, re-write it like it's in a book and maybe that will help me get to my goal of theory of mind proficiency sooner :D Anyway, thought it was a cool idea that you write down "conversations" your characters might be having as an interesting way to evolve your story :D Regarding a camera, do get one that has a flip lcd where you can turn it and see yourself while talking, so helpful!

Enjoyed your podcast, and all the info! I've been an old-film obsessed person since I was a kid, and I once had dreams of going into film. Alas, I became a therapist instead (which I no longer do, but I highly recommend therapy to literally every human and would cheerlead you to do, cuz I know you've mentioned it several times). As a hobby, I like to make little videos/movies, nothing fancy, just some fun family stuff. A few random thoughts that you might find interesting... I use Adobe Premiere Elements (2018), which is like a pared down version of regular Premiere, and I also enjoy using that Adobe product. I feel too overwhelmed by regular Premiere, and don't really have the time to invest in learning the things I'd want to do in there, so Elements kind of narrows things down in an easier way for me. But everything you said was spot-on. I find it fairly intuitive to use. And I can usually find tutorials online how to do all the random stuff I want to do. My fave so far is a fake snow overlay I did on a little video of my son, trying to get a "wintery" effect here in the Atlanta area, where we get very little snow. :) Another cool place to get free/copyright, free old-timey music is "Free Music Archive." The stuff on there is so old that I guess the copyright has basically expired/run out. So, I like to get a lot of old-timey sounding music on there. There's some really cool old recordings on there. I love your backdrop wall. As a fellow film person, I love the time and effort you put into making & using it. So fun! Last year, I finally got around to trying a green screen. Would you ever try one? To give yourself more possibilities for videos? I know you can buy green screen kits. But, just to start out, I went the ultra-cheap and easy way of literally just buying like 20 pieces of green poster board at Michael's and taping them together and hanging it up on a big wall. It worked really well, I have to say. There's a little bit of a learning curve with the lighting/shadows & stuff like that, but it's super fun & gives you lots of possibilities. You could easily use it with your faux wall & floor, just taking it up & down whenever you want to use it or store it. And one random thought from your housecoat video that is sort of related to my DIY greenscreen...for your really big skirts that you want to have one nice, poster board pattern for, you could take multiple pieces of poster board and tape them together to get a giant piece that you need. I just tape my poster board pieces together with 3M clear packaging tape & it works like a charm. It's a way for me to get one really big piece of poster board (I've done this for big templates/stencils I've made in other crafting/sewing projects too). Okay, all the random thoughts that came to mind while listening to your podcast are officially out of my brain :)

Sorry for the long comment but I just just wanted to say please keep going, we need you! By the way, I have started mocking up a corset and making a bustle cage for my own "1880s Adventures in the Living Room". Wish me luck!

Hi, I just wanted to say that I am new to your Patreon but have been watching your videos for a few months now. By the way, I discovered Bernadette Banner as she was suggested while watching your videos! I would love to see more historical-inspired projects, I love the Cicada gown and the second bustle period is one of my favourite style eras. I now realise that "history bounding" is what I have been doing since my late teens and possibly earlier (the perils of growing up on classic Scottish and English fiction). I also very much enjoy early-mid 20th century style. I realise that flat pattern drafting is how many designers are working professionally, but I'm not sure how many people are teaching it in the way you do. It is very interesting to me as someone who has never before learned these techniques. I would definitely support you if you did bring out a range of sloper patterns for us then provided monthly projects for pattern drafting your designs. Maybe we could pay for a booklet with the design options and diagrams for altering the basic block and follow along with you in a tutorial video? Even just in muslin or scrap fabric would work. I would be really interested in following along a little design course with you if it is something that interests you. Obviously, it would be quite a lot of work but remember there are lots of free-lance illustrators and editors out there when you start to get fancy.