{"id":13356,"date":"2011-11-03T02:34:56","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T02:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=13356"},"modified":"2011-11-03T02:34:56","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T02:34:56","slug":"ridley-scott-searchlab-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2011\/11\/03\/ridley-scott-searchlab-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Ridley Scott Searchlab Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ridley-Scott-Searchlab-Lecture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13357\" title=\"Ridley Scott Searchlab Lecture\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Ridley-Scott-Searchlab-Lecture.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2002 director <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm0000631\/\">Ridley Scott<\/a><\/strong> gave an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxsearchlight.com\/searchlab\/\">Searchlab Lecture<\/a> in which he talked for over an hour about his career.<\/p>\n<p>It was posted by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FoxSearchlight\">Fox Searchlight<\/a> as part of their series of web videos where they get directors to discuss their craft.<\/p>\n<p>Presented in four parts, he covers the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How he almost became a fashion photographer<\/li>\n<li>Working with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/D._A._Pennebaker\">D.A. Pennebaker<\/a> on the landmark documentary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Primary_(film)\">Primary<\/a> (1960)<\/li>\n<li>His time directing live television at the BBC and moonlighting in commercials.<\/li>\n<li>The rising costs of movie making<\/li>\n<li>How perfectionism and pragmatism can make a good mix.<\/li>\n<li>Dealing with actors<\/li>\n<li>Matte paintings and the dangers of CGI<\/li>\n<li>Why comics are difficult to adapt<\/li>\n<li>How MTV gave Blade Runner a second life<\/li>\n<li>The problem of finding a good writer<\/li>\n<li>Why he finds storyboarding crucial<\/li>\n<li>Auditioning actors and the importance of good casting tapes<\/li>\n<li>Why comprehensive script read throughs are a waste of time<\/li>\n<li>Recording read throughs with principal actors on audio<\/li>\n<li>Working with actors on set<\/li>\n<li>Why he likes filming actors with two cameras<\/li>\n<li>Pitfalls facing rookie directors<\/li>\n<li>The importance of &#8216;just doing it&#8217;<\/li>\n<li>Art vs commerce and whether the general audience is smart or not (interesting answer!)<\/li>\n<li>Editing and the importance of cutting to music<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YWj4Ac9wW6s\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ORDtuFuhNH4\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4JXvsDrlsVI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vEWQFa0kIC0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>N.B. The video contains some industrial language so don&#8217;t play it too loudly if you are in the office \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<p>&gt; Ridley Scott at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm631\/\">IMDb<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ridley_Scott\">Wikipedia<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/mubi.com\/cast_members\/1435\">MUBi<\/a><br \/>\n&gt; Fox Searchlight and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/FoxSearchlight\">their YouTube channel<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002 director Ridley Scott gave an interesting Searchlab Lecture in which he talked for over an hour about his career.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13357,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2295,417],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}