Who’s Watching: Tim Kasher on Found Footage Rules, Dark Comedy, and Horror Cinema

So, yeah, there's a big the big difference really is is what we can all we can all kind of, you know, see or witness ourselves.

But, yeah, it's kind of nice sometimes just to to parse it and, you know, talk about what those differences are for for music.

It's I'm wanting to I'm wanting to tell bigger stories in song, but you really have to figure out.

you have to say a lot in a line, you know, it's a different, it's a different thing.

So you have a, you have a, you only have so much meter and, and sometimes too, you're also trying to service the song itself.

So, So, for instance, maybe somebody could could, you know, clap back at what I'm saying and be like, well, why don't you just if you're having a hard time fitting an entire story into a song, why don't you just stretch that song out? It's like, well, people don't listen to half hour songs, you know, like that's like that's or in or maybe it's like, well, don't worry about what people think.

Well, it's like, well, how about you? I also want to serve the song,

you know, like there's

you know, you have these chords and these melodies and They might be, they may not be asking to be 10 minutes long, you know, like, like the song and the music itself is kind of like you know the song feels like it wants to be five minutes and so it's like you got to fit what you got to fit your story in there.

Clearly, when you get into different forms of writing such as screenwriting.

There's a lot more room.

There's a lot more room to be able to build.

Now all of a sudden, you're working with nuance and subtlety, and you can even have more time for genre, such as we're working on today.

You even have more time to work on playful manipulation, which you can do in music as well, but again, you have a shorter time.

It's a much smaller window that you have.

So when I started screenwriting for me, it was it really helped open up my storytelling so I could tell larger, more full stories.

And then I could and then I can continue to write songs, tell stories and songs, but I can appreciate.

that there's a, it's a different approach.

You know, you have to, you have to, you kind of do like a more like a broad strokes with storytelling in song.

That might, that's probably fair to say.

Cause you have to, you have to, you have to express a lot in a much, much quicker, you know.

So, yeah, there's a big the big difference really is is what we can all we can all kind of, you know, see or witness ourselves.

But, yeah, it's kind of nice sometimes just to to parse it and, you know, talk about what those differences are for for music.

It's I'm wanting to I'm wanting to tell bigger stories in song, but you really have to figure out.

you have to say a lot in a line, you know, it's a different, it's a different thing.

So you have a, you have a, you only have so much meter and, and sometimes too, you're also trying to service the song itself.

So, So, for instance, maybe somebody could could, you know, clap back at what I'm saying and be like, well, why don't you just if you're having a hard time fitting an entire story into a song, why don't you just stretch that song out? It's like, well, people don't listen to half hour songs, you know, like that's like that's or in or maybe it's like, well, don't worry about what people think.

Well, it's like, well, how about you? I also want to serve the song,

you know, like there's

you know, you have these chords and these melodies and They might be, they may not be asking to be 10 minutes long, you know, like, like the song and the music itself is kind of like you know the song feels like it wants to be five minutes and so it's like you got to fit what you got to fit your story in there.

Clearly, when you get into different forms of writing such as screenwriting.

There's a lot more room.

There's a lot more room to be able to build.

Now all of a sudden, you're working with nuance and subtlety, and you can even have more time for genre, such as we're working on today.

You even have more time to work on playful manipulation, which you can do in music as well, but again, you have a shorter time.

It's a much smaller window that you have.

So when I started screenwriting for me, it was it really helped open up my storytelling so I could tell larger, more full stories.

And then I could and then I can continue to write songs, tell stories and songs, but I can appreciate.

that there's a, it's a different approach.

You know, you have to, you have to, you kind of do like a more like a broad strokes with storytelling in song.

That might, that's probably fair to say.

Cause you have to, you have to, you have to express a lot in a much, much quicker, you know.