Movie in the Making

Movie in the Making

A fully transparent behind-the-scenes look at the making of a movie. Like video game "early access", but for Hollywood! I'm Charlie Cleveland, the creator of Subnautica. Please join us in our journey as we make a movie fully in the open. https://instagram.com/abyssal.films http://www.abyssal.co

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April 3, 2025 26 mins

Charlie shares seven essential strategies for giving helpful feedback on creative projects, drawing from his experience transitioning from video game development (Subnautica, Natural Selection) to independent filmmaking.

The insights come from months of working closely with writers on their Christmas movie screenplay "Nutmeg and Mistletoe," where they aimed to transform a good B-script into an exceptional A-script through ...

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I interview the two writers on our Christmas movie to to how the project got it's start, how they work as a writing pair, how scripts are different than games, how and what a logline and beat sheet is, book recommendations, game pillars in Subnautica, what we feel is essential in a Christmas movie and our favorite Christmas movies and why.

YouTube video interview
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Introducing the other crew on A Christmas Letter - Peter Herro is the director and Julia Knox is a producer. We talk about how we met, their origin stories, moving between games and film, traffic, money and competition for top Fortnite creators, 90s nostalgia in film, open world games and film story.

WTF Movie Trailer
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@DirectingPete YouTube - Unreal Editor
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December 2, 2024 14 mins

Welcome to a new podcast, called Movie in the Making!

Get a behind the scenes look at a Hollywood film as it's made. We'll show you how the sausage is made - and hold (almost) nothing back. 

The creator of Subnautica (Charlie Cleveland) will bring lessons from the process of early access video games to the film world.

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Questions or thoughts? => charlie@abyssal.co

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