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New Episode Tomorrow of DOC s3e2 "Ready or Not" Directed by Bethany Rooney. Sept. 29 9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT on FOX by @brooneydirector

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Section 4 Review - Being a Director - Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing by Bethany Rooney & Mary Lou Belli

“If you are a director, you are born with the need to tell stories. You want to make sense of the world and to entertain yourself and an audience by framing real-life experiences and eternal questions.”
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#filmdirector #storyteller #filmmaking @brooneydirector @maryloubelli #entertainmentjobs by @brooneydirector

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Chapter 17, Getting Started - Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing by Bethany Rooney & Mary Lou Belli

“If you don’t see an opportunity, create one for yourself. Once you have the opportunity, don’t squander it.” Pg. 339

#filmdirector🎬 #televisiondirector @brooneydirector @maryloubelli #filmjobs by @brooneydirector

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Chapter 17 - Getting Started Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing Bethany Rooney & Mary Lou Belli

“...You can be a good director but not a good fit with either the style of the show or the personalities involved. If you have a bad experience on a show and you’re not asked back, it probably does not mean you’re a bad director, but that perhaps it was a bad fit.”
Pg. 308

@brooneydirector @maryloubelli #filmmakers #filmdirector🎬 by @brooneydirector

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Chapter 17 - Getting Started - Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing by Mary Lou Belli and Bethany Rooney

“Everybody “gets in” in his own way. Even if you go to film school, there is no guarantee of a job when you graduate. You have to find your way in and work your way up.” - Pg. 307

#filmmakers #DirectorLife @brooneydirector @maryloubelli by @brooneydirector

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Chapter 16: From the Experts

"As an actor your full time job is looking for work; employment is your vacation. If acting is your career, it is vitally important to stay in the reality of this career..." Shalita Grant (NCIS: New Orleans, You, Search Party, and The Flash: Escape the Midnight) an excerpt from Mary Lou Belli’s Acting for the Screen.
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Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing @brooneydirector Mary Lou Belli by @brooneydirector

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Chapter 16 - Being a Director

“Often, you win just by not giving up. You will have many people against you, just because they’re not with you. They have other opinions. They think something else might work better. They don’t understand what’s in your head.”
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Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing Bethany Rooney Mary Lou Belli by @brooneydirector

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Chapter 15 - The Demands of the Job

“ Focus on what you have to give, not what you want to get.”
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Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing @brooneydirector @maryloubelli by @brooneydirector

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3 months ago

Chapter 14 - Working With the Post Supervisor

“It is said that theater is the medium in which actors have the most control, film is the medium in which directors have the most control, and television is the medium in which writers have the most control.”
Pg. 263

Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing Bethany Rooney @maryloubelli by @brooneydirector

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Chapter 14 - Working With the Post Supervisor

“...If you put a lot of time and effort into matching your original film elements, the kind of enhancements you can put into the frames can really trick the eye, offering results far beyond what was possible 20 years ago.”

Director Christopher Nolan (Interstellar, The Dark Knight Rises, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer)
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Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing @brooneydirector @maryloubelli by @brooneydirector

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Chapter 14 - Working With the Post Supervisor

“A foley stage is an amazing place, with different kinds of flooring, a bin of shoes with different types of soles, a huge array of props and pits filled with water and sand.” Pg. 269

Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing Bethany Rooney @maryloubelli by @brooneydirector

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Chapter 13 - Working with the editor

"Don’t ever dismiss something just because it is different from what you intended until you decide whether it is better than what you intended". p.252

Directors Tell the Story: Master the Craft of Television and Film Directing @brooneydirector @maryloubelli by @brooneydirector

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