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April 20, 2024 13 mins

Lights, camera, action! Have you ever wondered what it takes to make a movie for the big screen? From talented actors, to costumes and camera work, there are tons of moving parts that go into directing movies. Join Emily and Winston as they attend a Q&A with film director Roger Kumble, and hear all about his beginnings in theater and what inspired him to make movies for a living! Dive into the world of Hollywood and the day to day life of a filmmaker, and who knows? You might already have everything you need to start making movies of your own! 


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A Lingokids Original podcast produced by Paradiso Media
Starring Emily Calandrelli as Herself and Brock Powell as Winston.
Executive Producers: Emi Norris, Benoit Dunaigre, Lorenzo Benedetti, Louis Daboussy
Supervising Producer: Agathe Bouzat
Producer: Abi McNeil
With additional production support from Molly O’Keefe, Aimie Faconnier
Head Writer: Blake Knight
Associate Producer: Brendan Galbreath
Production Coordinators: Maddy Weinberg, Lucine Dorso
Editor: Marin Grizeaud
Videographer: Andrew Lemon
Photographer: Kimberly Delamater
Theme Song Written by: Fredrika Stahl
Theme Song Composed by: Fredrika Stahl
Music Production: Dimitri Peronno
Theme Song Performed by: The Angel City Youth Chorale directed by Heather Catalena
Recording Engineers: Bill Trousdale at Audiovisions and Jason Schimmel at Bunker Studios
Legal Services: Lisa Nitti, Ludye Nisol, Alix d’Argentré
Special thanks to: Yael Even Or, Winfred Neisser, and our wonderful guest Roger Kumble

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Speaker 1 (00:03):
If you have the passion, go get your phone and
go start filming, Go start making stories.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Hey there, welcome to Grown Up with Emily, a Lingo
kids podcast. It helps kids discover how to be whatever
they want to be.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Going up, everybody was kind of rooting for me to succeed,

(00:41):
and I kind of learned while we were making the
movie how to make this film.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
I ever wonder what it'd be like to make your
own movie full of talented actors, crazy costumes and fun
visual effects. Well, today we are on a mission to
learn more about film directing.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
Dang it, Why won't this thing't work?

Speaker 2 (01:08):
What's with the camera and all the lights? Are you
setting up for a photo shoot?

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah? I found this old camera in my attic, and
I thought it'd be fun to record some of our
experiments here in the lab so we can start making
YouTube tutorials and lots of money.

Speaker 4 (01:23):
Whitson, that's such a great idea.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
Well it's not gonna work. I can't get the lights right, Emily,
and this camera's too hard to figure out. There's just
so many buttons. I didn't realize directing would be this difficult.
How can I help stand here? When I say action?
I want you to say, Ha, I'm Emily and I'm

(01:46):
an engineer.

Speaker 4 (01:47):
Down's easy enough, Okay, I'm ready.

Speaker 3 (01:50):
All right, here we go, quiet on the sand. Whoa
Emily screen test? Take one lights.

Speaker 5 (02:01):
Action?

Speaker 4 (02:03):
Hi, I'm Emily and I'm an engineer.

Speaker 3 (02:06):
Cot now, no, no, I didn't believe you at all.
The audience will never buy it.

Speaker 2 (02:11):
And by Winston, I am Emily and I am an engineer.

Speaker 3 (02:16):
Yeah, it could have fooled me Emily. Okay. So what's
the next thing a director would do in a case
like this.

Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, if they wanted the actor to try something else,
they might say do it more confidently, or maybe try
to be funnier or more serious. Hold on, I just
remembered I've got two tickets to a Q and A
with Roger Cumble for today.

Speaker 3 (02:39):
I'm sorry who Roger Cumble?

Speaker 2 (02:42):
He directed a lot of well known films people love,
like Cruel Intentions and the Sweetest Thing. Those aren't movies
for kids, but he also directed episodes of TV shows
like The Goldbirds and The Mendy Project, which are hilarious
and family friendly.

Speaker 3 (02:59):
Hey, I've watched some of those.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Roger has been working as a director for almost twenty
five years. And he's made some big hits. You could
learn a lot about film directing from him. Do you
want to come with.

Speaker 4 (03:09):
Me to the Q and A Uh?

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Let me think about it. Uh, yes, of course I
want to come. Wait.

Speaker 2 (03:15):
What is a Q and a h Q and a
question and answer. It's where a professional gives a talk
and then people get to ask them questions afterward.

Speaker 3 (03:27):
Oh, ask them questions, sure.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Like for Roger you could ask what's your favorite movie
you've ever directed? Or what's the hardest part about being
a director. Maybe you can ask Roger a question.

Speaker 3 (03:41):
Oh, that'd be great. I'd love to find out more
about how to be a director from a real pro.

Speaker 4 (03:46):
Plus, they'll be popcorn double sold.

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Let's go, Emily. Wow, what a turnout. A whole audience
full of budding film directors.

Speaker 4 (04:00):
Saying, isn't it Winson. Let's take our seats, ladies.

Speaker 3 (04:03):
And gentlemen, thank you for coming out tonight to hear
about a film director to the modernstinguished guest, the one,
the only Roger. Oh there he is, Emily.

Speaker 4 (04:15):
I'm so excited.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
Hi.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
My name is Roger Cumble and I am a film director.
I love telling good stories. I just try to grab
as many stories as I can and try to find
whatever interesting story there is so that maybe I can
tell that story in a movie.

Speaker 3 (04:34):
Grabbing stories Huh. Kind of sounds like a game of catch.

Speaker 4 (04:37):
The wabbles, kind of, does Winson.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Artists all have different ways of finding and recording their
ideas and inspiration. Take George Lucas, the director of Star Wars.
He used storyboards to plan out every single scene in
his films.

Speaker 3 (04:54):
Storyboards. Huh, that sounds like fun. But what is it?

Speaker 4 (04:58):
Oh, it's like a comic book vers of a film.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Storyboarding as it's known today, was actually created back in
the nineteen thirties at the Disney Studios, where the animators
used little drawings to help bring their vision to the screen.

Speaker 3 (05:12):
Oh, Nate, I kind of do that when I doodle already.

Speaker 2 (05:15):
See you're a film director in the making already, Winston.
But it's one thing to draw them or write stories
down on paper. Bringing them to life on the big screen.

Speaker 4 (05:26):
Is a whole other set of skills.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
Let's listen and find out how Roger got started in
the industry.

Speaker 1 (05:32):
It was in probably in high school. We had a
teacher and he had us create our own play. We
had created our own musical, and it was kind of crazy,
and that's when he had us make our own story.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Roger Cumble started out as a writer in Hollywood, but
then he decided he wanted to direct movies.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
Too, and I went to Los Angeles and I ended
up becoming a playwright and I would work with the
direct and I was like, I don't want this job.
I want that job. I like that job better.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Writing and directing at the same time sounds like a
lot of work. Maybe you can write the scripts for
our lab videos and I'll direct them.

Speaker 4 (06:13):
Shere Winson, Oh, let's be quiet, he's talking again.

Speaker 1 (06:17):
I have what you call like mentors, and mentors are
like teachers. But one of the biggest ones I had
was this guy, David Swimmer, who is a very famous actor.
He was on this TV show that your parents might
know called Friends. I ran into him one night and
he asked me what I was doing because I knew
him from college. And I wrote this play and he

(06:39):
agreed to do it and he let me direct it,
which was him being so nice. He really directed it
with me, but he taught me how to direct. A
great life skill is don't pretend to know what you
don't know and ask for help and have good manners.

Speaker 3 (06:56):
I get nervous to ask for help when I don't
know how to do something. Sometimes.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
I guarantee you that even the most successful people ask
for help when they were starting out, no matter what
job they have. Besides, you can't learn anything if you
act like you already know everything.

Speaker 3 (07:12):
Hey, what are you trying to say?

Speaker 4 (07:14):
No, I didn't mean you.

Speaker 6 (07:16):
You know.

Speaker 1 (07:16):
The thing is with filmmaking, it's a collaboration. Yes, you're
the director and you're the leader, but there's a lot
of people involved, and that's the challenge of the job.

Speaker 2 (07:29):
I want to take a quick minute to tell you
and our listeners about Lingo Kids. You know how I
start every episode by saying that it's a Lingo Kids podcast. Well,
Lingo Kids is the number one learning app for kids.
They believe that learning can be fun and I think
so too. They transformed screen time with educational and interactive games, videos,

(07:51):
and songs, and you can play all these.

Speaker 4 (07:53):
On their app.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Hey, Emily, remember when you got to interview actor Joel
McHale said it took a lot of people to make
a movie too. I bet directing and being in charge
of all those people. Takes a lot of concentration.

Speaker 4 (08:08):
I bet you're right.

Speaker 2 (08:09):
I mean, I only have one employee, and even if
I take my eye off of him for one second.

Speaker 3 (08:16):
Hey wait, I'm the one employee.

Speaker 4 (08:18):
I'm kidding Winston. Really though, making a movie can be
a big job.

Speaker 2 (08:23):
But if you're just starting out, you can make short
films that you could shoot by yourself or with a
few friends, you know, until you're a big shot like
Roger with a huge teab of people.

Speaker 1 (08:34):
I think the artistic achievement I'm most proud of is
this movie called Just Friends. We did it in province
of Canada called Saskatchewan, and it was in the middle
of winter and it was about fifty below zero. It
was with Ryan Reynolds and Anna Faris and Amy Smart

(08:55):
and we workshop the movie like a play. We kind
of just got together with the writer and we just
kept reworking the scenes and writing the scenes, and I
think it showed on the film.

Speaker 3 (09:08):
Hey, Emily, how long do you think it takes to
make a movie?

Speaker 2 (09:11):
Well, all films are different. It depends on the type
of film you're making. The average Hollywood feature film takes
around three months to make.

Speaker 3 (09:21):
Three months. That's longer than my summer vacation. And what
about the longest film Emily, ooh.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Are you ready for this one? Twelve years?

Speaker 3 (09:31):
What in which film?

Speaker 2 (09:33):
It's a movie called Boyhood directed by Richard Linklater. He
filmed a story about a young boy who was growing up,
So he filmed the actor starting when he was just
six years old, all the way until he was eighteen.

Speaker 4 (09:49):
Isn't that crazy?

Speaker 3 (09:50):
Oh my gosh. I hope they were able to take
lots of breaks while they were filming that movie.

Speaker 1 (09:55):
I think starting out today, the technology is so amazing,
even playing with your phone and shooting stuff on it
right now, and you could cut it on iMovie. So
I would just say start making stuff like today and
getting comfortable. If you don't want to spend any money.
You could learn so much on YouTube and just making

(10:20):
stuff and learning and making mistakes right now without spending
a dime. And I didn't go to film school. You know,
if you have the passion, go get your phone and
go start filming, Go start making stories.

Speaker 3 (10:35):
Wow did you hear that? I already have everything I
need to make a movie lights, camera, action, and now
all I need is an idea.

Speaker 4 (10:45):
That's all the time We have today on Growing Up.

Speaker 2 (10:48):
Thanks so much for joining us to learn all about
what it's like to be a film director. It was
awesome to hear all about the things it takes to
make a movie from director Roger Cumble, from choosing actors
to rehearsing to working with awesome animals on set.

Speaker 4 (11:04):
Film directing sounds like a pretty spectacular job all around.
Until next time. Thanks for tuning in.

Speaker 6 (11:17):
A line trained celebrity flat to count the stars, rarest,
We can do anything we want. Close your eyes.

Speaker 5 (11:34):
You see it. You have to lead.

Speaker 3 (11:58):
Growing Up is a link of Kid's original podcast produced
by Paradiso Media, starring Emily Callendrelli as herself and Brock
Powell That's Me as Winston. Executive producers are Emmy Norris,
Ben Wattenegg, Lorenzo Benedetti, and Louis Debussy. Supervising producer is
agate Busette. Produced by Abby McNeil with support from Mall

(12:21):
O'Keefe and Amy Fconie. Head writer is Blake Knight, Associate
producer is Brendan Gaalbreth, and production coordinators are Matty Weinberg
and Lucien Dorso. Editor is Jule Benveniste with additional editing
by Tao Alberic. Our theme song is written and composed
by Frederica Stahl, produced by Dimitri Pirono, and performed by

(12:44):
the Angel City Youth Corral directed by Heather Catalina. Recording
engineers are Bill Trusdale at Audio Vision and Jason Schimmel
at Bunker Studios. Videography by Andrew Lemon and photography by
Kimberley Delameter. Legal services performed by Lisa Nati, Lugian Nissoul
and Alex Dasjentre. Special thanks to yaelle ivanor winfred Niser,

(13:08):
James O'Keefe and all of the amazing guests who joined
us in Season two of Growing Up, and of course
the entire Linger Kids team. Thanks for listening.
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