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Matches_Malone83 t1_j1kiker wrote

Reply to comment by Gootangus in why do series shows always have so many seemingly random people directing every episode? by OctoberRust13

For a long running and well oiled show, the director is pretty much a figure head at that point. Kevin Smith directed some episodes of The Flash and Supergirl and he said that he showed up and everybody just kind of did their thing, with or without him. He did make Jason Mewes a random masked henchman though so there's that.

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sexandliquor t1_j1klc0d wrote

Yep, this. Though sometimes depending on the show and depending on the director, you definitely get different looks and feels for some episodes more than other. Some directors have specific shots they like to do more than others, or add flourishes and what not.

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NandoMoriconi t1_j1knv9s wrote

Your comment is making me think of the two-part episode of CSI directed by Quentin Tarantino called “Grave Danger.” I remember it feeling more or less like classic CSI, with a few little nods to Tarantino being at the helm here and there (e.g., events being presented chronologically out of order à la Pulp Fiction, an idea he most likely borrowed from Bertolucci’s The Conformist [1970]).

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RoranicusMc t1_j1m8npg wrote

He also directed an episode or two of ER and there are definitely a couple extra shots of feet in there

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NockerJoe t1_j1l753l wrote

Dude I was on one of those episodes and Kevin Smith is being kinda humble about it. We would wrap on a shooting day in half what it could have been on a worse run set(which is VERY common for a CW show) and a decent part of that is that Kevin Smith trusts the crew to do their job even in cases where he can't directly be present.

In fact, I was there for one if the "without him" scenes and its basically the only times I've ever seen a director willing to let the crew do things so autonomously, and the camera and stunt teams had a blast getting the scene done at the time.

It doesn't sound like a lot but this is definitley a skill that he's developed and an extension of his fairly unique philosophy to filmmaking.

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Lord_Parbr t1_j1kp11v wrote

He also said he kind of regrets doing movies instead of getting into TV, because the writers seem to have more creative control in TV than in movies

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scootscooterson t1_j1knnso wrote

I mean that’s just what’s gonna happen with a scripted show with lots of CGI, you’re just following the playbook. Now take a comedy with improv like always sunny, and you get completely different styles of episodes (w production carryover to keep things looking similar).

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