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

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

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