Filmmaking / Directing : Webinar coming soon! How to Direct Movies for Television by Sydney Summers

Learn how to direct films for television from the director of Cinderella Story, The Perfect Man, and many TV movies including Life-Size and More!

TV movies have been a staple of the television landscape for over half a century! Directing a film is a skill set on its own, but directing a film for television has its own parameters, limitations, and guidelines that are unique to this form of narrative filmmaking. Smaller budgets, abbreviated shooting schedules, and fast post-production turnaround can all make shooting a film for TV a challenge for even the most seasoned directors. This webinar takes you step by step through each phase of the TV movie process from knowing the production companies and networks making them, deal terms, and unique differences in the preproduction, production, and postproduction stages. What are the specific skills you need to know to tackle TV movies? How do you shoot a 100 page script in 12 days? What are the differences between directing for episodic TV or features vs. TV movies? This webinar tackles all that and more for you.

Finding work as a narrative director is always a challenge, and even more so these days. You need to be able to master directing in all its forms to open up opportunities that will keep you working. Why not expand your skill set and get the tools you need to direct cable TV movies, a very popular and active area of production? You’ll leave this class with the confidence to pitch yourself as a TV movie director and walk onto any set knowing what it takes to deliver a show that gets you asked back to do more.

We are thrilled to welcome director Mark Rosman to teach this valuable webinar. Mark has been an award-winning writer, director and producer for over thirty years and is well known for his classic family entertainment. He has writtenand directed countless TV movies for ABC, TBS, ABC Family, Lifetime, and The Hallmark Channel and is currently prepping to direct a powerful indie drama he also wrote called Keep Coming Back. Mark has taught directing and film production for over 20 years at Columbia College Hollywood, USC, and is currently at UCLA, and now he is coming to Stage 32 to share his wealth of knowledge with you.

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