{"id":908,"date":"2020-01-31T13:14:57","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T20:14:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/?p=908"},"modified":"2020-02-07T15:02:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T22:02:48","slug":"2020-film-independents-directors-close-up-week-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/2020\/2020-film-independents-directors-close-up-week-three\/","title":{"rendered":"2020 Film Independent\u2019s Director’s Close Up: Week Three"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Week\nThree of Film Independent\u2019s Director\u2019s Close Up<\/em> ventures\ninto the mysterious world of television. Unlike feature films, television has\ndirectors with little authority, writers with all the power and story arcs that\ncan last decades. Directors Kyle Patrick Alvarez (The Stanford Prison\nExperiment<\/em>, 13 Reasons Why<\/em>), Silas Howard (Pose<\/em>, This\nis Us<\/em>), Marvin Lemus (Gentefield<\/em>) and Lynn Shelton (Humpday<\/em>, The\nMorning Show<\/em>, Glow<\/em>) reveal what happens behind the camera of\nthe most popular television shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The role\nof the director in film contrasts with television directors. In feature films,\nthe director has unlimited creative authority in every single department. In\ntelevision, some directors may experience a limited amount of authority, but\nmany cannot adjust the script in any way or have little control of the final\nedit of the episodes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wendy Calhoun, Marvin Lemus, Lynn Shelton, Silas Howard, Kyle Patrick Alvarez<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Directors\nwill often direct a single episode while crew members, writers, and producers\ngenerally stay on the same show for years. Silas Howard compared it to\n\u201cthrowing a party at someone else\u2019s house\u201d and moderator Wendy Calhoun compared\nit to the relationship between a substitute and a teacher. To help get to know\nthe crew, some directors will greet and speak with every member of the crew or\nutilize unconventional methods such as bringing the crew candy or baked goods\n(which, according to the panel, has an impressive success rate). To help\ninitiate directors, \u201cshadowing\u201d sometimes occurs wherein a possible future\ndirector will \u201cshadow\u201d the current director to learn the feel for the\nproduction and style of the show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nshow writers have so much creative influence that the medium has become known\nas the \u201cwriter\u2019s medium.\u201d The writers ensure that, not only does each episode\nhave an interesting, entertaining and original story, but that the world\nmaintains consistency throughout every episode as well. For some shows, this\nbecomes more complicated when writers must also consider overarching\nintertwining subplots such as the highly acclaimed Game of Thrones,<\/em> which\nthroughout its seven seasons had dozens of plot lines with dozens of characters\nthat ranged from a few episodes long to multiple seasons long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kyle Patrick Alvarez, Lynn Shelton, Wendy Calhoun, Silas Howard, Marvin Lemu<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

To\nassist in production, writers create \u201cshow bibles\u201d that give basic information\non the characters, settings and other aspects of the world being portrayed.\nSometimes, the production also creates \u201clook books\u201d which use a series of\nphotographs, color pallets and more to convey the tone of the show.\nShowrunners, which lead the production of a show,  meet with directors to discuss each episode\nin meetings called “tone meetings,” that can last as long as nine\nhours. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Recently,\nthe world of television has begun to lose its strangeness as film and TV have\nmerged more and more. Filmmakers now create \u201ccinematic universes\u201d which\nresemble the styles of TV and TV networks such as HBO develop shows where each\nepisode can last over an hour and the greater show-wide plot has a large\nsingular central conflict, similar to most feature film plots. Perhaps\neventually it will be the world of film that seems mysterious, as television\nand instant streaming shows grow in popularity worldwide. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For more information on Film Independent, go to https:\/\/www.filmindependent.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Gerry O., KIDS FIRST! Film Critic, Age 17<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week Three of Film Independent\u2019s Director\u2019s Close Up ventures into the mysterious world of television. Unlike feature films, television has directors with little authority, writers with all the power and story arcs that can last decades. Directors Kyle Patrick Alvarez (The Stanford Prison Experiment, 13 Reasons Why), Silas Howard (Pose, This is Us), Marvin Lemus (Gentefield) and Lynn Shelton (Humpday, The Morning Show, Glow) reveal what happens behind the camera of the most popular television shows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[192,10,188,191,190,189,193],"class_list":["post-908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film-critics-blog","tag-director","tag-film-independent","tag-kyle-patrick-alvarez","tag-lylnn-shelton","tag-marvin-lemus","tag-silas-howard","tag-wendy-calhoun"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=908"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":916,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/908\/revisions\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kidsfirst.org\/juror\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}