Carmilla Asks

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Because Natasha cut her hair, will that be incorporated into the Carmilla movie? Or will it just go unnoticed?

Generally speaking, when a person gets their hair cut, unless it’s like getting a buzzcut after having waist-length hair, it isn’t really noticed or acknowledged into the canon. 

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what is carmilla b-side?

for the soundtrack? They’re tracks that were on Carmilla’s blog

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Watching Carmilla was a big deal for me as it made me realize that it was totally acceptable and realistic for me to have a girlfriend someday. Thank you so much for what you and the rest of the Carmilla team created.

You will, friend. Trust me. We all feel that way when we’re young and we’re just figuring ourselves out.  I felt that way all through college. I feel that way now.  We have to find ourselves and love ourselves before we can love another.  You will find a girlfriend, and she’ll love you for who you are.  Thank you for watching the show and thank you for this message.  We do it for you guys. <3

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Hi! So, I have to ask, were the tweets meant to have any meaning? (The garbled ones from both the times Laura was away from everyone.) Cause like, I tried so hard to understand them. I did get to crack what the symbols meant and the phrases they formed but no further meaning after that. Also, were those tweets more hard or more fun?

They did!  Each one was run through a translator to make them more exciting/backwards, etc. But here’s a translation from the spreadsheet. Are you familiar with The Never Ending Story and the idea of the Room of a Thousand Doors? That’s where we drew inspiration, that and the “there’s no place like home” mantra from The Wizard of Oz, plus a general Silas U weird beat. 

So here’s a translation.  :)

9/31/2016 - 

w̢̨̢͢ḩ̸e͜͠r̀͟͜é̷̸͘-̴̕-̀͘҉͡-҉̀͏-͏̷͏̵҉I͘͢ k̶͟n̸̕o͡w̢͝ ͏t̶h̢i̧ş̴͝!The temple of a thousand doors! Overwhelmed.10/1/2016 - 

-̀͘҉͡-҉̀͏-͏̷͏ Just like that... one leads to many more. So this is more? A greater or additional amount or degree. Mehr10/2/2016 - 

Is it unending? Some beast's belly?Or a pocket - trapped? Pocket?10/3/2016 - 

If a woman jumps up she falls back down...So if she were to stumble forward, would she fall back?10/4/2016 - 

Round and round and round. A spinning top, a ferris wheel, a mulberry bush in bright swirls10/5/2016 - 

To go left one has to go right three times and againTo pull the correct book from the correct shelf, to open it in the correct place...a͘͡n̴͜ḑ́͟͜ ̵̸͜͠t̶̷̡҉h͞i̸͘͜͝͝ń̵͡͡k҉҉̛͜͞        ́͢o̸̕̕f̴͢͠ ͏҉́h͢͠o͢͡m͡ȩ̕҉̨10/6/2016 - 

h̴̸͘͝͡o̵̷͜͢m̡̛͠҉̸ȩ̶10/7/2016 - 

h̴̸͘͝͡o̵̷͜͢m̡̛͠҉̸ȩ̶h̴̸͘͝͡o̵̷͜͢m̡̛͠҉̸ȩ̶h̴̸͘͝͡o̵̷͜͢m̡̛͠҉̸ȩ̶h̴̸͘͝͡o̵̷͜͢m̡̛͠҉̸ȩ̶10/8/2016 - 

Thousand doors! Yes! A woman once lived in a desertIn her tower she kept all the knowledge in the world.10/9/2016 - 

so much depends on a yellow brick 10/10/2016 - 

words words words went tumbling out into the desert windbut Parliament! Deception! Billberry! with no one to hear, all stories unraveled at their rootand now all roads are uncommonly flatand there is Logjam! Painted! Vociferation! nothing to confirm nor nothing to deny

10/11/2016-

glazed looking glass --- 239629X4234534 http://aaaaaaaaaaaaaaa10/12/2016 - beside the last star on the right *last article*

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Will the gangs' social media be updated with the arrival of the movie? Or did it end with the series?

That is a really good question that doesn’t have an answer yet, sorry, Charlie. 

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What religion are the characters part of?

The only character that has a confirmed faith is Perry - who is Jewish. :)

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What was your favorite part of working behind the scenes on Carmilla?

The opportunity to work with such a diverse, talented group of people, for sure. The friendships I formed on this show will be with me for a long, long time, and I’m so, so grateful for them. 

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I was with Carmilla since the middle of season one and it's so amazing to see how far this once little webseries has gone. Laura is such a truly inspiring character and will surely remain in my heart for years to come. I'm also about to start college in January, and ready to give it the good ol Silas try. Thank you and everyone involved for such an incredible and beautiful story. 💕💕💕

You got this, lovely!  I’m so glad you watched the show and enjoyed it as much as you did. <3

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How do you go about choosing music for the transmedia Tumblrs? Is it all music you were already a fan of or aware of and just went with how it fit with the moment, or do you specifically go searching for new music? I just recently found Carmilla's post in S2 of Alanis Morissette's "Head Over Feet" (after her and Laura did the do lol) and I think it's such a perfect song for that moment, like the lyrics are sooooo infatuated Carmilla. Havent stopped listening to it since.

Oh man, music is really fun. I listen to a ton of music, across all genres. I blame this on my dad. He’s a radio DJ and a music director for a radio station in New England, which means I was raised around a lot of diverse musical elements. I’ve always wondered if I missed my calling as a music picker for TV shows, honestly, because I enjoy doing it so much. 

A lot of that process is basically listening to music with the story in mind and trying to find something that really fits with the mood/theme of the episode. Some of the music I select is new/unknown to me. As I grew up in the 90s, Alanis isn’t exactly new to me, and her “angry young woman” music definitely fit Carmilla in that moment, because of how raw that song is, and how overpowering that love feels for her.  Same with that London Grammar cover of “Wicked Game.”

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Soooo happy to see this in the TV After Dark piece, glad to see this acknowledged "in print" because I agree wholeheartedly: "Carmilla’s social media game is emphatically better than any other show’s. It has to go mentioned that ‘Carmilla’ on social media has been excellent—and it has to be a huge factor into propelling the turbine of success."

Why thank you. :)

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Hi, I wanted to ask, what was it like being responsible for the carmilla social media? Did you have to respond to people in character or did others help? Did you read the script and then create the transmedia story line along side? Fascinated by this

It’s a lot of work behind the scenes.  What was done this season was a little more complicated because of the act drops - we had to figure out how to represent a social media storyline - which is by nature daily - when the drop schedule didn’t allow for that.  Social Media for Carmilla was all about finding the little bits of things and unraveling them to add some depth.  

I wrote the social media as the scripts came in, and then rewrote once we figured out the drop schedule. The podcasts were another element of the storytelling this season that I absolutely adored. They were written back in May and then finalized in August. I wrote those (with the help of the amazing Julia) to really play with the idea of an audio soundscape for the pit and also to give a sense of reality to that part of the story that seemed so fantastic when it was just hinted at in the series script - it was an experiment for everyone involved!  But man, Nicole freaking killed it. Podcasts are definitely something I want to consider writing again in the future. 

As with the past two seasons, Jordan did her voice pass and got the characters saying exactly what she wanted exactly how she wanted right before the tweets went up. This process usually involves her looking over things and giving her okay, but she’ll also tweak phrasing and stuff like that as needed.  After that I scheduled all the tweets, and get cracking on live responses.  Those are done as they come in - or as the need arose. This season there was less of them on twitter because of the act drops - but there were still live responses on Tumblr, which was really fun.  I do all of those myself.

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Hi... Not sure if here is the right place to ask, but maybe one of the followers know or you can forward this to someone that does, so my question is, how do you access the bundles (Christmas and movie) subtitles? The vhx player doesn't have an subtitte/cc option and I can't find the files to download to watch on my computer player... I'm lost. Could anyone help me please? Thanks a lot in advance!!!

Hey guys, I’m not sure, but can anyone else help a creampuff out?

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Info: you can view the vhx content by signing in on the vhx website, clicking on your avatar and choosing "library". That way you don't have to click the link from the email every time to access the files.

Thanks for the FYI dude.

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There still should be a way to log in from the main page rather than having to follow a link in an email every time you want to see the content.

I don't know what to tell you dude.

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There's no way to access the season three bundle content from the main page of the Carmilla movie site. No links to click. Nothing. What's going on?

Because that's where you buy it! A link should have come to your email. :)

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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU AND BRAVO!

❤️❤️❤️

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I want to thank you for everything. Especially for LaFontaine. Because of them, I found myself. When I first started watching Carmilla, I was confused and scared, especially when it came to gender. I'd never even heard of nonbinary people before so seeing that opened my world up. Now, I'm so much more comfortable and confident in myself, I've found the greatest friends I could ever have, and I couldn't be happier. You all literally saved me. Thank you.

I'm so happy that we could be for you.