E107 - Alice Seabright Part 2: Showrunning BBC’s Chloe

In this episode of The Directors' Take podcast, your hosts Oz Arshad and Marcus are joined by Writer & Director Alice Seabright (SEX EDUCATION & CHLOE) for a deep dive on directing craft... We dove so deep that we had to split this conversation into two. This is Part 2, which covers....

 

-A sincere apology for the excellent cliffhanger at the end of Part 1.

-Alice details how she got her very own TV show.

-What the greenlight process was like.

-What were the differences between being a lead director and 2nd block director?

-What she looked for when choosing the 2nd block director.

-Tackling a TV schedule.

-Reshaping story on the day and in post production.

 

Alice Seabright is a Writer/Director who gained acclaim for a series of short films such as the BFI backed PREGNANT PAUSE, SEX ED and END-O which was an official selection at the BFI London Film Festival. Alice then went on to direct and write episodes of the hit Netflix show SEX EDUCATION before having her own TV show commissioned by BBC & Amazon, a mystery/thriller titled CHLOE, which released to strong reviews.

 

Nuggets of the week

Marcus: YouTube Channel - Corridor Crew

Oz: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Dir: Sergio Leone, 1966)

Alice: Book - The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin

 

Credits

Music by Oliver Wegmüller

 

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