Great Story Doesn't Fake Authenticity - Troy DeVolld

Producer Troy DeVolld, widely regarded as a leading authority on the reality television production process, boasts some four dozen credits spanning THE OSBOURNES to Food Network's BIG BAD BUDGET BATTLE and bestselling books REALITY TV: AN INSIDER'S GUIDE TO TELEVISION'S HOTTEST MARKET and AND ANOTHER THING: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE TO THE TELEVISION NOTES PROCESS. He's contributed to or been quoted in publications like TIME and NEWSWEEK and been seen on TODAY and SHOWBIZ TONIGHT. He's a 1996 graduate of Full Sail University and the ninth inductee into its Hall of Fame.
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[@Thenoobestgirl]

Lmfao that sushi homeless person story is the weirdest interaction I've ever heard of between two human beings 😂😂😂

[@cinemathequerouge317]

Yeah, I always listen to this channel when I work. I had to go back & listen to that part again. Lol

[@troydevolld9793]

And it's true, which makes it even weirder.

[@BigJackGameplays]

I thought that in the end both of them would be great friends and go in adventures together, but then reality kicked in....

[@troydevolld9793]

@@BigJackGameplays A shared moment does not equal a blooming friendship, alas.

[@cinemathequerouge317]

Great interview!! Thanks! When the story flows out of me effortlessly, then I'm being authentic & the story works. When it is inauthentic, the story stops or slows down to a crawl.

[@BoReads]

Moving in silence is a good key tip.

[@heatherheadley1704]

I began my three novels with the words, " I write ✍️ what I feel." I always write ✍️ my stories and screenplays from an original perspective that I know. I grew up on a small Caribbean island 🏝 Barbados 🇧🇧 and my writing ✍️ is based on the life I've lived in a multicultural setting. Travel also helped me to get different perspectives of other cultures. I did a writing class in New York at Brooklyn Public Library in Eastern Parkway and performed 🎭 an original piece at Manhattan Monologue Slam. Doing what feels natural, always ends up in a good place. It can be comedic or a narrative or something historical. I absolutely 💯 love original authentic writing ✍️. "I write ✍️ what I feel" 😌- Munirah Nailah

[@magnusskallagrimsson6707]

Rough quote: "You're slowing things down when you tell me everything about them from the start." So true and something I watch out for when I write - in fact I was revising a chapter for an upcoming blue pencil session of my first draft and realized I was giving too much away. The reader/viewer doesn't need it all upfront off the bat.

[@filmcourage]

How do you know a story isn't being authentic?

[@chasehedges6775]

1. If your actions don’t speak louder than words. 2. If what others say about you isn’t believable. 3. Not making your story anchored in truth or giving evidence of that fact

[@thereseember2800]

I usually know when a male wrote a script when they’ll have a female say phrases that she’d never say. Also, when you make your living as an RN, you see countless things in movies or on TV that look fake. For instance, the color of blood looks fake (except for the Twilight films). Or they’ll feature doctors or nurses being overly-dramatic during a Code Blue... In real life, they act like clockwork. Some act burned-out if they’ve worked there for 10 years. In the movie, My Life, Nicole Kidman’s character was the exact opposite of what 99% of the spouses of terminal cancer patients act like. The vast majority end up, at some point, having a major melt-down/anger flare-up because their loved one is going to be massively leaving them via death. So that movie wasn’t authentic to me.

[@troydevolld9793]

@@thereseember2800I completely agree with this perception about female dialogue, having grown up in the 70s/80s where women often seemed written as helpless, sexy props in the background of the main action. One of the things I've always liked about James Gunn's films is the fullness and dimensionality of his female characters, like a modern-day John Hughes.

[@AKATenn]

@@thereseember2800 you can also tell when a certain type of woman is writing a male character, because he'll be dumb, or a pushover, or a narcissist, have some evil alterior motive, any or all of the above. there needs to be a balance, realistic characters are flawed, including the women, but it's not always bad flaws. but I don't think that's true with every male or female writer, that they put their own opinons on what their personal experience of some gender is to them... the worst is when some 100 lb person of either gender goes on screen and beats up some 300 lb muscle man with a slap...

[@troydevolld9793]

@@AKATenn Or his main flaw is that he's driven by business and doesn't want to abandon it all for a gal he met in a pumpkin patch three days ago.

[@staceyannequin]

As a new writer I learned the hard way to discern who you share ideas with, I think it is important advice to share, thank you

[@chasehedges6775]

Love this content. It’s amazing

[@bhndtheseen9540]

Full Sail University represent!

[@troydevolld9793]

I'm trying. Wonderful place.

[@marquissaint-germain4482]

Thanks you! Great content

[@deogiriyadav8399]

Can u say something about "sardar udham" Movie....

[@troydevolld9793]

I've not seen it. I'm primarily a television guy, and rarely go to the movies.

[@troydevolld9793]

@@deogiriyadav8399 I'm a little busy at the moment. Added to my list of things to find/view in '23.

[@troydevolld9793]

@@deogiriyadav8399 Okay. Saw it. Very well done historical piece. Unsettling in places, but worth the watch. What is there to really say about it?

[@deogiriyadav8399]

@@troydevolld9793 if u have any utube channel... Then express ur feeling about this movie... I m sure u didn't know about that incident which happened in 1919 ... Recommend this movie to others...

[@troydevolld9793]

@@deogiriyadav8399 I don't really use it, but hope to be active again soon.

[@Tawny593]

Love Jeff Lewis. 😂

[@troydevolld9793]

Me too. I'm always excited that his voice/take endures.

[@MasterGhostf]

I never liked backstories, they seem forced. Its far better storytelling to bring up past events when they become relevent, and make those past events emotionally relevent to the character. So the actor/actress can act by using those past events to play a character in the present. A past event that caused PTSD? A person can act that and people can understand there is somethingwrong.

[@troydevolld9793]

Sometimes, you need a little setup, but not a third of the picture.