BRAD INGELSBY - Writer

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James Ellis Deakins

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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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SEASON 2 - EPISODE 129 - Brad Ingelsby - Writer

Writer Brad Ingelsby (MARE OF EASTTOWN, THE WAY BACK, OUT OF THE FURNACE) joins us in this episode of the Team Deakins Podcast. A self-professed overwriter, Brad shares his personal approach to screenwriting, and we break down the parts of a story we like the most as viewers and as filmmakers. We later discuss the ever-shifting nature of a script from prep through post-production, and Brad shares how he thinks about when to reveal pieces of information that lead to the most effective telling of a story. We also ask Brad about THE DYNAMITER, an early film in his career, and he shares how the film evolved from an AFI thesis film into a full feature. We also reflect on the role of research in screenwriting, from spending time in a particular community to convincing its members to tell you what’s wrong with your script, and Brad shares how he tries to integrate resources from a specific area into the actual shoot of a project. Brad also compares writing for film against writing for television, and, at the end, we ask Brad what advice he would give to a young screenwriter today.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to Season 2 of the Team Deacons podcast, a collection of informal conversations
0:10.1	between Roger and James Deacons and a guest.
0:14.0	We never know where the conversation will take us, so listen in and see where it goes.
0:28.7	This episode is sponsored by Aperture, a premier manufacturer of LED lighting with the industry's greatest variety of fixtures for your complete lighting needs.
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1:04.4	Today we're speaking with a writer. Among his credits are out of the furnace, the way back,
1:13.0	and mayor of Easttown. We're pleased to welcome Brad Inglesby. Brad, thank you for doing this. Oh, what a thrill, guys. Thank you so much for having me on. We'd love to start with our normal question, which is how did you get to
1:18.6	where you are today? Is it something as a kid where you always jotting things down, or did you
1:24.3	want to become a banker and then find this later? What's your story?
1:29.3	Well, it's a great question. I'd love to claim that I always wanted to be a writer,
1:35.1	but that is not the case with me at all. I watched a lot of movies as a kid. I wasn't really an avid reader.
1:45.0	I was really always watching movies.
1:49.0	And I still didn't really have any idea that I wanted to be a writer until I was probably
1:54.0	20 or so, James and Roger, that was really, I went to school and studied marketing, which I think, I don't know that I was
2:03.3	ever in love with marketing either, but my father was a very practical guy and sort of encouraged me to,
2:11.1	as I was still searching to figure out what it was, I wanted to do to at least be able to be
2:16.1	employed and get health insurance and
2:18.2	have an income. And so I studied business in college. And then when I was a junior in college,
2:24.8	as an elective, I took a screenwriting course. My college really didn't offer a ton of classes
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