On July 30, educators and students got a taste of the DGA's Visual History
Program when it was on exhibition during the University Film and Video
Association's (UFVA) 71st Annual Conference held at California State
University Los Angeles.
DGA Special Projects Committee Chair Jeremy Kagan promoted the Visual
History Program as a free academic resource to professors, scholars and
filmmakers. Kagan also demonstrated the Program's database search
functionality and spoke about other resources available to the public via the
DGA website such as the DGA Quarterly and podcasts of Guild events.
Members of the DGA staff were also on hand for one-on-one and small
group demos of the site and its resources.
Founded in 1946, UFVA is an international organization of professors,
scholars, and film and video makers dedicated to furthering and developing
the instruction of motion picture and television media. The Guild previously
participated in the UFVA's annual conference in 2013.
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by
J.
Aaron
Delgado
courtesy
California
State
University
Los
Angeles
Photo: DGA Special Projects Committee Chair Jeremy Kagan demonstrates the
resources available via the Guild's Visual History Program at the UFVA Conference.
VISUAL HISTORY PROGRAM
Recent Update: Director Oz Scott
Scott recounts his 30-plus year career directing episodic television and TV movies, his beginnings in theater, and his feature
film, Bustin' Loose, starring Richard Pryor.
Scott on the value of listening: "The best way to do your job is to listen. If you listen you're gonna hear something that you can
use. When I go onto a set to do an episode, I need to hear the actors read it. I know how I want to shoot it. I know how I want to
block it. But when I hear it, I hear things like, 'Oh you're gonna do it like that. That's interesting.' Those are the things you find when
you listen, as opposed to when you come in and just say, 'This is what I want.' Listen to what they have to say and then make your
mind, because it may be great."
The Visual History Program website contains hundreds of hours of videotaped interviews with directors and director's team members
discussing their careers and reflections on all aspects of the creative process in film, television and other media. These interviews are
indexed for quick retrieval of segments pertaining to specific topics of interest within a particular interview or across the entire collection.
Oz Scott
interviewed by Helaine Head
View more excerpts and interviews in the Visual History Collection via the link on the homepage of www.dga.org.
DGA Visual History Program Highlighted at University Film & Video Association Conference
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