Welcome to our brand new blog. A place where we hope to get some thoughts together and put them in writing. A place where we can keep the conversation going about film in-between our podcast episodes. Even a place where each of us hosts can use our own voice to explore our individual love of cinema.

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What’s This Now?
About a month ago, shortly after we had released our 5th episode, about the 2014 Damien Chazelle movie Whiplash, we got together to do our normal social media push to drum up some attention. Our resident writer, Edward, pointed out something that I had only briefly considered: We could generate more traffic to our podcast if we added a blog to our repertoire. Not being a particularly strong writer growing up, this terrified me.
But he was right! If we want to build a strong brand around our take on movies and cinema (and maybe even a few other things), we need more text on our site. So we started down the path of producing written content to boost our visibility and ultimately engage with our audience in a new way.
Why A Blog?
We are trying to give folks an alternative way to consume our content. It isn’t always convenient to listen to something, especially when one’s environment doesn’t allow for it–like excessive background noise. Furthermore, this will hopefully allow us to generate content on a larger scale.
We really love doing the podcast! In fact, we hope to ramp up and produce more podcast episodes in the coming years. But in the meantime, we also hope to break into the blogging game so we can keep the conversation about movies and film going in between episodes. In addition, I hope we can use this as an opportunity to bring more voice and flavor to our work by allowing each one of us to write about things in movies that most interest us.
Why Do I Care?
You may be asking yourself: alright, so what? Well, if you like our podcast, we intend to write articles that similarly explore films along with their stories, soundtracks, and productions. We currently have set ourselves up to produce one podcast episode quarterly and we hope to maintain that. In addition to the podcast, however, we are going to start ramping up our content production first by getting into the world of writing. We have many decisions ahead of us in terms of what this blog will look like, but we are excited all the same. Really, we are building this ship as we sail it. So, stay tuned, and don’t forget to follow us on our social media accounts where we’re sure to post updates about this project as we go.
In conclusion, I would like to state that this will not impact our commitment to podcast production; this is a purely additive and exciting new endeavor! Having said that, we are certainly open to feedback and if you like reading our blog posts, or if you think there is something we could do better, feel free to @ us on social media or email us at admin@sscinephile.com
Be well, enjoy the journey, and we hope to see you at the end of the month for our next episode.
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