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What Comic-Con Teaches Writers About Adaptation, Fandom, and Worldbuilding

Every summer, thousands of people wait in line for six hours, put on capes, and scream when a panel moderator says a title out loud before the trailer even starts. It looks like spectacle. It’s actually one of the better classrooms in the industry. Comic-Con isn’t just about costumes, it’s about the mechanics of fandom, adaptation, and worldbuilding, on display in real time, with the audience reacting live and unfiltered. For writers, that’s the whole curriculum.

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LAFS Alum and Production Sound Mixer Phillip Bladh Talks Sound of Metal, A24, and Oscar Night

Few people understand the emotional power of sound in film better than Phillip Bladh.

Sound of Metal, directed by Darius Marder (The Place Beyond the Pines) and starring Riz Ahmed (Nightcrawler, Jason Bourne, Rogue One) and Olivia Cooke (House of the Dragon, Bates Motel), relied heavily on the expertise of its sound professionals to tell the touching, poignant, and at times sonically imposing story of a heavy-metal drummer going through the life-altering experience of losing his hearing.

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How Does a Film Get Recognized Into the Criterion Collection?

Today, we are celebrating the induction of select films from director Mike Mills’ body of work into the Criterion Collection as a collection titled I’ll Remind You of Everything, which compiles the director’s deeply personal, semi-autobiographical trilogy of films mapping out parent-child relationships, including Beginners, 20th Century Women, and C’mon, C’mon.

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Let There Be Sound: An Interview with A-List Sound Mixer Phillip Bladh

For Oscar-winning sound mixer Phillip Bladh, sound has never just been technical — it’s an emotional audio journey for audiences that can make or break a film.

Long before winning a Best Sound Academy Award for his groundbreaking work on Sound of Metal, the Los Angeles Film School alumnus was a musician obsessed with microphones, recording equipment, and the invisible ways sound shapes human experience.

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Why Character Is the Engine of Every Great Script

You can build the most intricate plot in the world. Elaborate twists, high-concept stakes, jaw-dropping set pieces. You’ll still lose your audience by page 20 if there’s no character they care about. Character isn’t decoration on top of your story. Character is the story. Every great screenplay, from Get Out to Parasite to Spirited Away, works because a specific person with specific desires and contradictions makes choices we can’t look away from.

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Alumni Spotlight: Sy’Rai Smith Turns Family Legacy Into Her Own Sound

Sy’Rai Smith didn’t come to The Los Angeles Film School to follow in anyone’s footsteps — but her grandmother made sure she got here anyway.

“The reason why I went to school to begin with is because of my grandmother,” Sy’Rai says in our new video interview. Sonja Norwood, a veteran talent manager who has taught in LAFS’s Entertainment Business program since 2018, kept coming home raving about the school. “She always came back and was like, ‘It’s so great, I think you should go there.'” Sy’Rai enrolled – and stayed. She’s now a double LAFS alumni, graduating summa cum laude with degrees in Entertainment Business.

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From Bedroom Beats to Professional Tracks: How Music Production Has Changed

There was a time when making a record meant booking studio time, hiring engineers, and spending money you might not have on equipment you’d never own. That time is over. Today, some of the most compelling music in the world gets made in spare bedrooms, apartment closets, and converted garages — by independent artists with laptops, studio monitors, and a vision. If you’re serious about building a career in music production, understanding that shift is your foundation.