{"id":9061,"date":"2020-10-15T09:43:25","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T13:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/?p=9061"},"modified":"2024-03-26T10:24:45","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T14:24:45","slug":"tv-directing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/2020\/10\/15\/tv-directing\/","title":{"rendered":"TV directing: Getting and keeping your foot in the door"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LHBZoJek52w\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Join acclaimed television director and CFA alumnus Michael Medico, whose credits include <em>Grey&#8217;s Anatomy<\/em>, <em>The Fosters<\/em>, <em>Atypical<\/em>, and G<em>ood Trouble<\/em> for a discussion about breaking into TV directing.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Medico likes to say he put himself through his own TV directing MFA program. It took 7 years from the time he shot his first short until fellow CFA alum Peter Paige gave him his first TV job directing <em>The Fosters<\/em>. Now, 3 years later, Michael is about to direct his 10th TV show (CFA alumna Krista Vernoff\u2019s <em>Station 19<\/em>) and has 4 others shows booked to direct in the next 6 months. He\u2019ll discuss where to begin, how to prepare for a meeting, shadowing, and how to keep getting asked back once you book the job.<\/p>\n<p>This discussion will be moderated by actress and CFA alumna Fay Wolf.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Audio trouble?<\/strong> Click the five gray bar icon in the bottom right corner of video window to turn up the volume manually.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Join acclaimed television director and CFA alumnus Michael Medico for a discussion about breaking into TV directing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16959,"featured_media":14980,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,1,390],"tags":[685,77,136],"featured_img":"\/alumni\/files\/2020\/10\/film-directing-800x600.png","agg_excerpt":"Join acclaimed television director and CFA alumnus Michael Medico for a discussion about breaking into TV directing.","agg_title":"TV directing: Getting your foot in the door","media_icon":"webinar-icon","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16959"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9061"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14979,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9061\/revisions\/14979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/alumni\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}