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How To Make A Director LOVE Your Screenplay (Ged Maguire Interview)

gedmaguire85-115.jpgThis is a fascinating audio interview with Ged Maguire, who is a highly experienced director of British TV. In over 55 minutes of full and frank conversation with top UK media journalist Sally Brockway, Ged talks about a vast range of screenwriting matters and comes up with some incredible advice, all given from the perspective of the guy who actually has to stand there with your script, the actors and the crew and make the darn thing play!

Over the last ten years Ged has directed over 60 hours of broadcast tv drama for the BBC and ITV, on both single camera film and multi camera studio. He has worked on on a wide range of soaps and weekly dramas, and this year won a coveted IVCA award for a documentary he made for Audi.

Among other things, Ged talks about:

  • What kind of script all directors are secretly hoping to get in their intray
  • What actors and directors bring to a script and what you as a writer must bring
  • How much stage direction you should write - and why
  • Why soap opera can be as stylised as Japanese Noh Theatre
  • How you can use actors to polish your script. 
  • How Ged went about funding and producing his own short film when he had a story he passionately wanted to tell

And much, much more!

Just press the Play button to hear the interview in the site player:

This is a MASSIVE interview, so please feel free to download it to your computer and burn it onto CD, or drop it onto your MP3 player.

To do that just right-click here and save the file to your desktop.

You can watch one of the films mentioned in this interview ('Rhubarb & Roses') on the BBC Film Network site here. This is another great site you might want to join - it's part of the UK short film subculture and because it's got the weight of the BBC behind it it's free to join. It's basically another real showcase and meeting place for people interested in making short film. (And if you do join don't forget to add a comment on Ged's film!)

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