The Scoop on Emily Hagin's My Sucky Teen Romance

        Last Friday, I interviewed Emily Hagins at Panera Bread.  As many of you may already know, she's a former student of LASA who made My Sucky Teen Romance in her senior year.  She used to be terrified of scary movies until she saw Undead from Austrailia. Through that movie, she realized that horror movie could be both scary and funny. She decided to incorporate this idea into My Sucky Teen Romance.

        Above is Emily Hagins (person in the green shirt) directing the movie.

        When the whole teen vampire craziness with the Twilight series was going on, she decided to make a parady on it. Not only is it a parady, but one of the actors, Devin Bonee, actually looks like Robert Patterson.

Above is a picture of  Devin Bonee in one of the movie scenes
       
        Emily worked hard and all her efforts paid off in the end. Since vampires can’t be out during the day, her filming took place from 5 p.m. to 5 a.m. She only had one building to do the entire movie and was on a tight budget. Despite all these challenges, she managed to put an amazing movie together.  Her movie was shown at SXSW, Alamo Drafthouse, and London. Her advice to other teens who want to become moviemakers someday is, “If you have perseverance and drive and you just get through the little hiccups sometimes there are happy accidents.”

To watch the trailer and find out more about the movie click here.
Pictures found here.

Words by: Minji Kim