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I love Harry Potter more than anything because reading those books as a kid is what made me want to be a writer. J. K. Rowling was the first author that I tried to emulate when I first started writing regularly at thirteen. Needless to say at this point in my life I could reciteContinue reading “London Day 5”

Angel’s Costumes was super cool. I’m a cosplayer and I make most of my own costumes, which of course isn’t even comparable to the lengths the folks at Angel’s go to, but it gives me perspective as to how much goes into one of those outfits. I made a complex cosplay from a premade suitContinue reading “London Day 4”

Air Studios has probably been the highlight of the trip for me so far. My dad is a huge Beatles nerd and has instilled me with enough Beatles trivia to impress most adults. It was such a wild experience to be in a space that George Martin recorded in. It was a shame that theContinue reading “London Day 3”

It was really cool to get more specifics about how filmmakers have utilized different spaces around London. What was particularly awesome to me is when a space wasn’t at all how it appeared in a movie, but with the right lighting and window dressing it became easily recognizable as something completely different. A few examplesContinue reading “London Day 2”

Walking around London at night I was struck by how many different sides the city had to it. London is multiple cities built on top of each other, both through modern innovation and disaster. This makes it a popular city for filmmaking due to the wide variety of architecture. It was cool to see howContinue reading “London Day 1”

London as a character in cinema going back to films like Christmas Carol and into the present with Wonder Women is often viewed as a cold industrial city. It can be very unforgiving and restrictive. In An Education London serves as the protagonist’s prison. She feels trapped by what she perceives is a lack ofContinue reading “Pre London Thoughts”