Originally posted by: Arshics
I couldn't find any info on Himanshu Singh. why was MG even there? He must have directed hardly any episodes. Thankfully.
Ivy, if there are two directors, how do they work? Independently, they divide the episodes among themselves?
Or they divide scenes of a single episode? Won't there be a lead director and a co-director who works with the main director so that there are no inconsistencies ?
If there are two independent directors - how do they bring in uniformity of style then?
Arshi ji, producers traditionally bring in new directors to keep their shows 'fresh'... While one director may have a flair for helming dramatic episodes, the other might excel at the romance or comedy genre... So, it is fairly probable that both sequences in an epi or the bulk of epi's might be divvied up between the two.
The above has mainly been used for different 'tracks' in the show. Director X might be roped in to helm 15 episodes of a major tear-jerker track, and Y might be roped in for the same number of romantic/comedy epi's in a light-hearted track. Both are working from a single Master script tho, and as long as the Producer keeps a close eye on the evolving day-to-day product, a sense of consistency can be easily maintained.
However, in the case of SC, if every man is for himself, then epi's will appeal in bursts or sparks i.e. in terms of scenes and sequence, rather than as a whole. And with a lot such as our executive SC team, who cares about unncessary matters like uniformity of style... They are only concerned with churning out episodes... Iss liye milta hai, kabhi bakwas, toh kabhi wah-wah... The onus is on directors and given free rein they will stamp their 'vision'...
If the two director's styles are markedly different, you will witness so in the show itself, where comparing two consecutive epi's side to side is hardly going to make any sense at all 😳
Edited by -Ivy- - 12 years ago