Tyler James Williams for the first time on “Abbot Elementary”
Since he was a young boy – specifically, as an actor of a child in “everyone hates Chris” – Tyler James Williams has known he wanted to be a director. With his own words, he fell in love not only on TV, but with to prepare The TV, and he could not wait to get to the camera one day.
What he might not expect is that his first appearance in the directing will be one of the most difficult “Abbott Elementary” episodes for filming: Season 4, Episode 13, “Fair Science”.
“It was not the case until we really started to destroy it, it was,” Oh, this is huge. “There is a scene in which Janine (Queena Bronson) built the volcano with Claresa (Amethii Sleed). She leaves the semester and goes to the semester of Melissa (Lisa Ann Walter). While we are there, the younger child runs (Dilliion Blake Allen), steals the cups, running out of that room. Janine followed him with a hallway conversation with Gregory (Williams) and then ran to Ava (Janil James) at the same time. We had to cross three groups at one time, mainly, until this entire scene runs together. ”
This is just one of many difficult scenes-there is also Ava and Janine approaching the office and running unavoidable with the father of Ava Frank (Keith David), then the science exhibition itself in the third law, which includes a sequence where Williams was forced to leave his position on the screens , “Step to the pocket”, then it comes out as the scene continues.
Williams began preparing for the “Science Exhibition” early from the start of the season-or perhaps early as it was before adolescence, as he was working with the productive director Jerry Levin and asked him the largest possible number of questions. With the start of the fourth season, Williams began sitting in production meetings, tone meetings, concept meetings, and asking questions. The conversations with the crew, with the cameras section, began with the executive producer Randal Einhurn, and began to break the wide scheme of the episode before adding specific dialogue or personalities.
He said: “Because I know the space, and I know a kind of language of our program and how it works, I can start understanding how this needs to move and what this should seem.” “It is really difficult to explain it, and I think this is the place where the part of the vision comes, where I start seeing it while I read. This person comes in the end and says something in this way, and this gets this character to do so. I can see her moving at the time Actual.
As one of the leading directors in the documentary space, Einhorn “ABBOTT” helped, and find similar shows their rhythm with camera factors that behave like characters themselves.
Williams said: “We have had a lot of conversation about where the camera is present only for the shot, but is this logical for documents on the other side of that camera?” “Playing with the cameras and cameras’ operators as characters in this world. What are their opinions about everything? Why do they get this shot the way they are? It affected many of the decisions I made.”
This helped that Williams “did deny this camera section as I have no other. Everyone always asks, what is the secret of Gregory’s fourth appearance to break the wall? It is that relationship. Jeremiah Smith and a camera discovered me as an actor during the first few weeks, where he could He finds those moments as I found them. ” Williams described the experience as preparing for the episode mainly as a different character: “I just make options and decisions for each letter on the page, including camera operators.”
At the same time, he says that the experience was edited by an actor in certain ways, such as not feeling a tendency to criticize his performance among the viewer.
He said: “I think one of the things that is always a kind of remaining left of the actors is, if you feel that you got it, then why don’t we move?” “I found myself not really able to direct myself, but I remember the most time I felt when we shot him. This is something I think I do now as an actor, and what we should do. I don’t think we should see our shows really, because there will be things no We love it … but have you felt well at that moment? If you feel right, this is good, we can go forward. “
It is clear that “Abbott” is a show in which dozens of small additions with the region come, but “Fair Science” was still “a big child’s day”, says Williams. Each of 24 students had to have a scientific project (with practical practical effects, unfortunately it was cut for time), then there should be enough others to explore the exhibition and fill the gym. In the Laboratory of Mr. Morton (Jerry Minor), Bunsen Burner had to be released because the children’s actors could not be five feet away from open flame. He trained in the big scenes “to the point of music -like”, ensuring that children moved quickly and instinctively over a detailed shooting.
Williams looks completely comfortable with the recently released episode, as “Abbott” production continues to play after stopping during fires. It is definitely different as an actor, with his steadfast respect for production only stronger.
He said, “You must have a good crew.” “You cannot make a good offer without a stunning crew. I had a crew of people who have built a relationship with them over the past four years, and the way they appeared to me this week – I am completely grateful to the way they did. That’s what they do every week. Actors get a lot of praise and all of this; Know This is correct.”
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