Welcome to Blue Soup Blog!

I feel like when you start a blog, the first thing you’re supposed to ask is something like, “what’s going to make this blog draw readers?” or “what is my niche” or something of that sort that sounds like it comes from a daily email newsletter about getting your small business off the ground. 

I’m much too indecisive for that.  

Remember that scene in Bridget Jones’s Diary when it’s Bridget’s birthday and she cooks with Colin Firth and has a nice time with her friends even though she made blue soup? That’s kind of how I think about what I want to do with this blog.  It might be all over the place, but in the end its at least a good time. 

However, I definitely can’t just write into the void so this blog has to have something about it that’s new/interesting/exciting or not even I would read it… 

That’s where the videos come in. 

I love reading articles, essays and blogs as much as anyone else. BUT as Youtube has become such an integral part of the film community with reviews, vlogs, and (my favorite) video essays, I’ve realized how great video can be for writing and thinking about pop culture. Spending three paragraphs summarizing a scene in an essay seems a bit silly when you can just show a two minute clip through a video.

You may be asking, “Sofia, why didn’t you just make a Youtube channel and make video essays.” First of all, I like to write. Simple. Secondly, I think there’s something about video essays on Youtube that seems so detached from the rest of the film world. I’m not saying that the film essayists are to blame for this— they all make incredible content that is just as well (or even more) researched, interesting, and informative as a lot of full on academic essays I’ve read. The detachment I’m talking about seems more to stem from the fact that video essays on Youtube is such a small little community that interacts and collaborates with each other, but not really much with outside mediums also discussing and making films. I thought that merging two different mediums through blogging and video writing would be a really cool way to explore pop culture and film in a way I particularly enjoy and like to create. 

So here’s the general gist of the Blue Soup Blog: every week, I’ll post a joint blogpost/video essay about pop culture, film, or television (look out for next week’s post about boredom in film!) Throughout the rest of the week there will also be (scattered) articles that share things I’m interested in or pop culture news I want to share or anything else that comes to mind. 

see you soon,

Sofia

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