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The Filmmakers Podcast

ANDY NYMAN - MAKING 'GHOST STORIES' & FILMMAKING with Giles Alderson, CJ & Andy Rodger

39 min • 26 april 2018

Andy Nyman drops by to chat about his debut as a director on his feature film Ghost Stories. Based on his stage play of the same name, he co wrote and directed with Jeremy Dyson (The League of Gentlemen) to make a haunting and chilling ghost story (or two).

He chats about his acting background, how seeing Richard Dreyfus in Jaws as a curly haired Jewish guy made him think he could also be in films, made him want to act and go into filmmaking. Working with Rian Johnson and being in Star Wars and with Darren Brown and Ben Caron (on The Crown)

As a director and in filmmaking how to do different takes and to have great to have options in the edit. Do it until your happy with it.Important to picking the right team around you. Who would help you. Including Ole Burkeland (The Crown) as his DoP collaboration & Clare Jones as his producer. (Field in England).

With Ghost Stories how he wanted to make a piece of cinema shot well and old school and not shaky cam .How he got got the cast with an A list star in MARTIN Freeman. Casting. Being over the moon to get his cast. Paul Whitehouse and Alex Lawther.

Don’t play it cool, share the love and communicate with you crew and eventually your audienceKnow and love every second of your script. Be ready and prepped for when it all falls apart.Look at films that inspire you. Those filmmakers film are filled with personality.“If you’re making an independent film, make the film that would want to see, that would excite you to see it”

Follow Andy Nyman on Twitter @AndyNyman or www.AndyNyman.com

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@gilesalderson @35mmdop @cjamesdirect

Recorded at JustVoices.co.uk


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