We’re excited to introduce you to the always interesting and insightful Roxane Dupont. We hope you’ll enjoy our conversation with Roxane below.

Roxane, thanks for taking the time to share your stories with us today Learning the craft is often a unique journey from every creative – we’d love to hear about your journey and if knowing what you know now, you would have done anything differently to speed up the learning process.

The only way to really, efficiently, learn any craft is to practice. But before practicing anything, you have to actually start doing it.

I’m a set Photographer, which means I take Behind the Scenes pictures. I’ve had my camera for years, and I’ve been working in film for a while now, but I only started BTS last year. I always wanted to try it but was too scared of being bad at it. Coming to LA was kind of my opportunity to start taking more risks and experimenting. Turns out, I really enjoyed it and people were pretty happy with my work. I’ve been doing as many shoots as I can since then. I also decided to experiment with Headshots and “staged” photography. I was reluctant at first – I love the spontaneity and creativeness behind candid and on-the-spot pictures – but it’s a good way to meet new people in the industry and get my work out there. My goal is now to be able to get paid doing it and work on bigger productions.

The same goes for any craft. I’m also a writer. I’ve always had a thousand stories building in my mind but was always too scared to actually write them down. Taking my first writing class at UCLA allowed me to get over that fear and understand the process better. Then, all you have to do is write, and write, and write. Even when you don’t feel like it.

So yeah, getting over your fear of failing, and then practicing a craft is the best way to learn. It doesn’t mean you have to do it for hours and hours every day, but a few hours every week is a good start. Giving yourself some challenges is also a good way to improve.

Great, appreciate you sharing that with us. Before we ask you to share more of your insights, can you take a moment to introduce yourself and how you got to where you are today to our readers.

I started my journey in Production. I’m from France, and I graduated from a Master’s Degree in Production there. I also worked in a production company for a year and produced a few short films. I worked on set and in an office, on the development, production, and post-production stages of different projects, on fiction and documentaries, for TV and features… But I was missing the more creative side of entertainment. I always loved writing and had so many stories I wanted to tell. I just didn’t know how. So I decided to come to LA and start my journey as a writer. In a year, I wrote my first pilot, a few shorts and I am now writing my first feature. My main goal is to produce AND write fiction, mostly TV, and to create and run my own show.

I don’t have one specific genre that I like to write. I’m more interested in the themes that I want to share. I want to write stories about women discovering who they really are, discovering their inner strength and worth, discovering their paths in life. Whether it’s through horror, drama, comedy, musicals… I just want to create things that will make other women feel empowered, heard, and seen.

More than a writer and producer, I’m also a photographer. I’m taking Behind the Scenes pictures on several sets. I love to be able to capture this very moment when people work in sync to make a work of art. I love to do it in an artistic way, to show the beauty in every single craft and person who makes movies happen. I get to create my own composition with whatever is available, I let things happen, people live and work, and I observe every detail of it, until I find the right angle, the most original point of view. It’s almost like a game. I’m trying to practice my skills for headshots now, and maybe I will develop an interest in staged photography and discover a new style. Who knows.

Overall, I try to do whatever makes me happy and allows me to create and share my vision of the world. Whether it’s production, writing, or photography.

Is there mission driving your creative journey?

My first goal is to be able to express myself and my feelings, share my stories with the world. I also want these stories to reach people who might feel the same way I feel, let them know they’re not alone. I want my stories to unite people, to start discussions, to make a change.

Regarding photography, I mostly want people who are not familiar with the entertainment industry to discover the real behind the scenes, which always fascinated me growing up. I also want everyone on the team to feel seen and valued. I often notice how the people who often appear in these pictures are the actors, the director, and some other working the closest with the director. We often forget about everyone else. And I want each and every member of the team to have at least one picture that artistically captures the very essence of their work.

How about pivoting – can you share the story of a time you’ve had to pivot?

I guess me coming to LA was a kind of pivot. I was starting my career in production in France. I could have stayed and looked for a new job in a production company, I even had the opportunity to work on the set of an important TV show. But I decided to change things, change career, and change countries (even continents!). I decided to focus more on writing, then on photography, and I put producing on the side for the last year. I wanted a break from it. I wanted to be creative. Now that I’ve experienced new things, I know that I want to be able to do many different things. I want to write, I want to take pictures, and I want to produce!
So I am now slowly getting back on the production side of the business, without forgetting about all the new things I learned this past year.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/roxangeles_/
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roxane-dupont-64a0101b9/
• Other: IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/name/nm13482840/

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Roxane Dupont