12. Dan Styles - HOW to Design Action and Fight Choreography for Movies

Beyond Reel Talk Podcast

How to design an action scene for a movie? What's the process of creating a fight for screen? In this episode of BRT Podcast British stunt coordinator Dan Styles will tell you how he does it. What it's like to work with Scott Adkins? How to plan action for a one take film (One Shot and One More Shot)? What are the complications of filming in real airport? This and more in episode 12 or Beyond Reel Talk podcast. Youtube:  @DanStyles  Dan's web site: https://www.danstyles.co.uk/ ID Fight Youtube:  @IDFight  The Hunt for Gollum https://youtu.be/9H09xnhlCQU?si=LGp0e9ElvsFF0PAu CHAPTERS: 00:00:00 - Coming up 00:01:40 - Intro 00:03:50 - Beginning. Why films? Why action? 00:10:40 - Starting stage combat 00:17:48 - Starting ID Fight 00:21:43 - The Hunt for Gollum fan film 00:25:50 - First big projects as coordinator 00:27:09 - How to design a fight scene 00:33:40 - Previs 00:39:22 - Safety measures 00:41:41 - Working on Avengement fight scene 00:47:30 - Taurus Award nomination 00:49:13 - Working on One Shot 00:53:38 - Writing and Directing 01:00:22 - Inspirations (Extraction, John Wick etc.) 01:06:25 - Working with directors 01:08:41 - Working on One More Shot 01:15:57 - Is it dangerous 01:17:27 - Motivation 01:19:19 - Is it male dominated industry? 01:20:26 - What's next 01:22:32 - Dream project 01:24:29 - BLITZ 01:26:48 - One Cool Thing 01:29:29 - The End #beyondreeltalk #interview #podcast #videopodcast

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