I hope you don’t mind me being lazy and just sending you this little post I made with my highlights of the first day 🙂 But I think what I remember the most about Gillovnycon aside from David biting at Gillian’s shirt and all the cute stories from the photo OP, is the picture @sembelltook with them. No one else managed such a great pic! And if you have a few minutes / hours to kill, just scroll through my #Gillovnycon. Everything about this con is worth it and there’s only 26 pages on my blog lol! Enjoy!!
David Duchovny: “That’s the hardest part. (audio only) It can be hard on set as well if you’re in a high-stressed, high-pressure situation and you are acting off of a tennis ball or Gillian eating an apple off camera or something.”
Both Duchovny and Maggs discussed how much they enjoyed doing these scary audible stories comparing it to telling ghost stories around a campfire. Duchovny said it reminded him of the first season of The X-Files, when they had no money for special effects and their Director of Photography told them to just make everything dark because “it’s really your imagination that will scare the shit out of you.”
But the medium also means that in order for the story to be scary, the story and writing need to be excellent. Duchovny pointed out that in an audio drama you can’t depend on props, sets, or fancy special effects to scare people, or to make up for poor acting or poor writing, the words and the way they are delivered are the whole story.
Just Holding Hands 