9 Strategy #3: Quick Techniques and Safety
PART III Preparing the Scene: The Director’s Checklist
Before Rehearsal: The Checklist
CHAPTER 10 The Scene Related to the Film
CHAPTER 11 Enter the Characters
CHAPTER 12 Strategies, Stakes, and Obstacles
CHAPTER 14 Imagination Instigators
PART IV Surviving Television: A Director’s Guide
CHAPTER 15 Not a Parallel Universe
CHAPTER 16 Research and Preparation
CHAPTER 17 Concept and Tone Meetings
Contributors
Allan Arkush is an Emmy-winning TV director and executive producer of the hit series Heroes, Crossing Jordan, and Hellcats. He has recently directed episodes of Nashville, A Series of Unfortunate Events, and Another Life. His Ramones’ cult classic Rock ‘n’ Roll High School is one of the top-ten rock ‘n’ roll DVDs ever.
Paris Barclay, current president of the Directors Guild of America, is a two-time Emmy Award winner and the busiest director of single camera episodes in the DGA. He is an executive producer/director on FX’s hit Sons of Anarchy. He is currently preparing a biopic of Barbara Jordan with Viola Davis in the lead role.
Gary Busey was nominated for an Oscar for his star-making performance in the lead role of The Buddy Holly Story. He has been acting in film and TV for over forty years, including in two films with Badham, The Law and Drop Zone.
Trey Callaway is a producer and writer known for CSI: NY, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, and Rush Hour. As an executive producer, he has numerous TV series in development and recently produced Station 19 and APB.
D.J. Caruso began his career working with Badham on several films as second unit director and producer before beginning his own feature career with The Salton Sea. He’s gone on to direct Disturbia and Eagle Eye starring Shia LaBeouf, Standing Up, and xXx: Return of Xander Cage. He’s currently preparing the film Invertigo.
Gilbert Cates was the director of the Oscar-nominated films I Never Sang for My Father and Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams. He produced the telecast of the Oscars a record fourteen times and served as vice president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, as well as president of the Directors Guild of America.
Stephen Collins has appeared in numerous films and television series in his nearly forty-year acting career. He is best known for his role as Reverend Eric Camden on the series 7th Heaven and his appearance as Decker in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Nick Copus, born in Hendon, London, England, is a director and executive producer known for Alphas, The Summit, and Salem. He has directed episodes of Siren, Animal Kingdom, Lethal Weapon, Queen of the South, and Gotham.
Martha Coolidge is a president emeritus of the Directors Guild of America and winner of a DGA Award for Introducing Dorothy Dandridge. Her works include Rambling Rose with Laura Dern, Lost in Yonkers with Richard Dreyfuss, Out to Sea with Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, and most recently I’ll Find You. She is a professor at the Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, Chapman University in Orange, California.
Richard Donner has directed the global hits Superman, Lethal Weapon and its three sequels, The Goonies, and The Omen. He is also a prolific producer alongside his wife, Lauren Shuler Donner. His biography, You’re the Director… You Figure It Out by James Christie, is available on Amazon and in bookstores.
Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar for Best Actor in 1978 for his performance in The Goodbye Girl. His acclaimed career has taken him from Jaws to Mr. Holland’s Opus and dozens of films in between. Dreyfuss worked with Badham on Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, and Another Stakeout.
Jodie Foster has won two Best Actress Academy Awards for The Silence of the Lambs and The Accused, in addition to forty-five other major acting awards. She is the director of Little Man Tate, Home for the Holidays, The Beaver (starring herself and Mel Gibson), Money Monster, and an episode of the Netflix series Black Mirror. She worked with Badham at age eleven on an episode of the series Kung Fu.
John Frankenheimer cut his teeth in the heady days of live TV dramas. His acclaim in that medium led him to Hollywood, where he continued this success with Birdman of Alcatraz, The Manchurian Candidate, French Connection II, Black Sunday, and Ronin.
Mick Garris, winner of Lifetime Achievement awards from both the New York and Portland Horror Film Festivals, began his directing career on Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi anthology series Amazing Stories and
