Love the inclusion of 'Barbarian' here, this 'midpoint moment' is really jarring but it works so well. It also introduced me to the great Donovan song, 'Riki Tiki Tavi,' a great song I'd never heard of until seeing this movie.
Colby, hyper-specific Substack question for you: how do you generate main page thumbnails (with the wraparound peach "Hollyweird" frame) that don't necessarily appear as images in the posts themselves?
(Also, while I'm here -- love the 'Stack. Fellow screenwriter who sincerely appreciates your industry wisdom and non-didactic perspective!)
Ohhh I love a hyper specific process question! Substack will pull any images you use automatically but I found I didn’t like using those and wanted them to be more like what you’re mentioning here with the title treatment. So I have created a template in Canva for what these look like so there’s some uniformity and then when setting the tags / seo for each week’s post I upload the cover image directly rather than letting it pull something from the post automatically. Extra work but I like that they’re uniform now and think they look nicer!
Love the inclusion of 'Barbarian' here, this 'midpoint moment' is really jarring but it works so well. It also introduced me to the great Donovan song, 'Riki Tiki Tavi,' a great song I'd never heard of until seeing this movie.
I am glad you’re shouting the song out specially because I love love love the song choice and think it makes the moment!
Colby, hyper-specific Substack question for you: how do you generate main page thumbnails (with the wraparound peach "Hollyweird" frame) that don't necessarily appear as images in the posts themselves?
(Also, while I'm here -- love the 'Stack. Fellow screenwriter who sincerely appreciates your industry wisdom and non-didactic perspective!)
Ohhh I love a hyper specific process question! Substack will pull any images you use automatically but I found I didn’t like using those and wanted them to be more like what you’re mentioning here with the title treatment. So I have created a template in Canva for what these look like so there’s some uniformity and then when setting the tags / seo for each week’s post I upload the cover image directly rather than letting it pull something from the post automatically. Extra work but I like that they’re uniform now and think they look nicer!