Directing https://www.westinlee.com/category/directing/ Homepage of writer Westin Lee. Tue, 09 Aug 2022 00:38:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 48931760 Thematic Integrity: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan https://www.westinlee.com/2022/06/07/thematic-integrity-star-trek-ii/ Wed, 08 Jun 2022 00:08:00 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=2722 I told a younger friend Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was a good way to jump into the franchise. Then, in a late-night, wine-fueled moment of paranoia, I re-watched the movie to make sure it holds up. Good news: it does. It's a great film. Not as many LED volumes as modern Trek [...]

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]]> 2722 Arcane – 10 lessons from the Netflix show https://www.westinlee.com/2021/11/24/arcane-10-lessons/ Wed, 24 Nov 2021 15:34:00 +0000 https://www.westinlee.com/?p=2587 Just finished watching the first season of Arcane on Netflix and...I was surprised how much I absolutely loved what is ultimately: a video game adaptationof a game that I played for yearsthat I couldn't remember two story or lore beats from* So perhaps, just like I did with Neon Genesis Evangelion, we can put on [...]

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]]> 2587 Writing the Perfect Fight https://www.westinlee.com/2020/10/08/writing-perfect-fight/ Thu, 08 Oct 2020 16:39:00 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=1164 I've become somewhat known as a person who writes solid action, so I thought I'd share some thoughts on 'fight scene theory'. In other words, what do I think I know about how to make fights in stories dramatic and compelling? This theory is the result of a process I call 'modeling' - that is, [...]

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]]> 1164 Half-Life: Alyx and Thematic Integrity https://www.westinlee.com/2020/04/06/half-life-alyx-and-thematic-integrity/ Mon, 06 Apr 2020 15:59:30 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=2480 Yay, I have an excuse to talk about the new Half-Life game. I played through the original Half-Life in software mode on my parents' old Pentium 2 machine. I played through its sequel on my PC shortly after I graduated film school way back in 2005. I still remember the immensely satisfying, filmic ending of [...]

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]]> 2480 More Wizards Hosting Talk Shows https://www.westinlee.com/2020/02/07/more-wizards-hosting-talk-shows/ Sat, 08 Feb 2020 00:59:17 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=2470 We did another episode of the wizard talk show. Then we got cancelled. Channel 101 is cruel. The episode turned out very silly and the production value is a huge jump from part one. I imagine a Wizard's Corner show that is essentially Pee-Wee's Playhouse, just a ton of bizarre characters and creatures in this [...]

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]]> 2470 Killing Eve, and the Little Parts https://www.westinlee.com/2020/01/20/killing-eve-and-the-little-parts/ Mon, 20 Jan 2020 13:07:42 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=2464 New year, and I miss posting blogs, on account that some of them turn out well and I like finding them years later. I'll continue to YouTube sporadically; I'm fond especially of New Gods and the silly character I play when I host it. I think, in 2020, blogs will be where I say hopefully [...]

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]]> 2464 The Final Moments of Putting a Story Together https://www.westinlee.com/2020/01/06/the-final-moments-of-putting-a-story-together/ Mon, 06 Jan 2020 22:07:26 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=2460 It's a new year. And with that new year I'm running through my creative works-in-progress. Evaluate, stop, go, that sort of thing. At any given time I'm 'marinating' several stories. I've talked in a YouTube video how there's a moment a project feels right to me to begin real work on it. Before that it's [...]

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]]> 2460 I made two Channel 101 shows this year. https://www.westinlee.com/2019/12/05/i-made-two-channel-101-shows-this-year/ Fri, 06 Dec 2019 00:54:27 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=2452 It's been a long time coming, but somehow, I've started directing again in earnest. It's a good feeling. I've known for about a year now that I wanted to shoot something, but I took my time to be smart and deliberate about projects. Channel 101 is great fun but ultimately a chance to practice...a distraction. [...]

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]]> 2452 MORE Learning from Neon Genesis Evangelion https://www.westinlee.com/2019/07/29/more-learning-from-neon-genesis-evangelion/ Tue, 30 Jul 2019 02:10:17 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=2432 Learning From Evangelion The END of Learning From Evangelion It's time again for another list of hot storytelling techniques gleaned from Evangelion, which remains a slick and complex TV show. And now we can all watch it on Netflix. Use Inversions! As in, when something good happens, something bad happens. And vice versa. Traditional writing [...]

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]]> 2432 Learning From Neon Genesis Evangelion https://www.westinlee.com/2019/03/17/learning-from-neon-genesis-evangelion/ Mon, 18 Mar 2019 03:18:42 +0000 http://www.westinlee.com/?p=2381 This post is based on a YouTube video I did a couple weeks back. MORE Learning From Evangelion The END of Learning From Evangelion Eva is about to make its debut on Netflix, and I opted to re-watch the series for the first time in years. I'm an early NGE convert; I watched the series [...]

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