Welcome to SHOOT’s fall edition Directors Series, featuring profiles of notable helmers and a look at promising new talent. Our accompanying Cinematographers Series offers DP insights into artistic trends and technological developments.
The directorial profiles encompass a wide range of work. In addition to commercials, this mix includes for several directors such fare as Webisodes, Internet shorts, targeted cable series and viral spots. The latter discipline, for instance, is reflected in director Steve Ayson’s first American ad assignment, Folgers’ “Happy Mornings,” which has taken on a word-of-mouth life of its own, putting him on the U.S. commercialmaking map and infusing the coffee client with a hip viral vibe.
Then there’s Jesse Dylan, an accomplished spot and music video director whose first major branded content endeavor, Snickers’ Instant Def series of Webisodes for BBDO and Atmosphere BBDO, New York, has scored impressively, attracting one million-plus customers to a special Web site.
Similarly Web traffic has been heavy for Sea-Doo’s series of short films, the first being Rusty Dogs directed by Jeffrey Karoff.
Then factor in The Glue Society for its MTV show The Gamekillers for BBH, New York and client Axe deodorant. Furthermore, all the directors in this edition who have diversified into varied forms of content also continue to turn out breakthrough broadcast and/or cinema commercials. The Glue Society for example helmed the lauded “March of the Emperors” for Canal+ out of BETC Euro RSCG, Paris.
In addition, this issue provides a sampling of up-and-coming directors in “From One To Several,” continuing the longstanding SHOOT commitment to identifying and giving exposure to the next generation of directing talent.
And keep in mind that the scope of the Directors and Cinematographers Series goes beyond the pages in this section. Director Terry Gilliam shares his take on filmmaking in our POV column, and this week’s Chat Room features DP Daryn Okada, ASC, who is the new president of the American Society of Cinematographers.
Enjoy the issue and, as always, we welcome your feedback.
House Calls Via TV and Streamers: A Rundown of The Season’s Doctor Dramas
No matter your ailment, there are plenty of TV doctors waiting to treat you right now on a selection of channels and streamers.
Whether it's Noah Wyle putting on his stethoscope for the first time since "ER," Morris Chestnut graduating to head doctor, Molly Parker making her debut in scrubs or Joshua Jackson trading death for life on a luxury cruise, new American hospital dramas have something for everyone.
There's also an outsider trying to make a difference in "Berlin ER," as Haley Louise Jones plays the new boss of a struggling German hospital's emergency department. The show's doors slide open to patients Wednesday on Apple TV+.
These shows all contain the DNA of classic hospital dramas — and this guide will help you get the TV treatment you need.
"Berlin ER"
Dr. Suzanna "Zanna" Parker has been sent to run the Krank, which is only just being held together by hardened — and authority-resistant — medical staff and supplies from a sex shop. The result is an unflinching drama set in an underfunded, underappreciated and understaffed emergency department, where the staff is as traumatized as the patients, but hide it much better.
From former real-life ER doc Samuel Jefferson and also starring Slavko Popadić, Şafak Şengül, Aram Tafreshian and Samirah Breuer, the German-language show is not for the faint of heart.
Jones says she eventually got used to the blood and gore on the set.
"It's gruesome in the beginning, highly unnerving. And then at some point, it's just the most normal thing in the world," she explains. "That's flesh. That's the rest of someone's leg, you know, let's just move on and have coffee or whatever."
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