Bill McDonald - UCLA Cinematography Department

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James Ellis Deakins

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🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 72 minutes

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EPISODE 115 - BILL MACDONALD - UCLA Cinematography Department

Team Deakins converses with Bill McDonald of the UCLA Cinematography Department. We learn about the UCLA program and the difference between the undergraduate and graduate programs. He shares what UCLA looks for when admitting students and how they work to bring out the students’ native talents. The students learn all the different areas of film production since this increases their ability to collaborate with other departments in the future. We talk about the pricing of the school and the difference between state and private schooling in film. Bill also shares that film school is not best for everyone and the importance of finding the film school with the approach that works best for the individual. A great lesson in film schools!

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome to the Team Deakin's podcast. This podcast is a dialogue between Roger and
0:09.9	James Deakin's often joined in the conversation by a guest. It's very informal and we never
0:16.4	know where it will go. We're connecting through Zoom so bear that in mind when you hear
0:21.5	the audio.
0:23.5	If you'd like to submit a question or topic, please do so by emailing podpod at rogerdeakin's.com.
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1:10.5	Today we are again exploring the role of film schools. We're pleased to have with us the
1:18.4	Chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA. We're happy to welcome
1:24.5	Bill McDonald with us today. Bill, thank you for doing this.
1:29.0	Thank you very much for inviting me. It's really an honor to be here today and I'm so happy
1:33.3	to see you both. It's been a long time. It's great to see you. It's been a while.
1:38.3	We're going to start by asking you, how did you get to where you are today? Did you take
1:42.7	another path first or were you basically on the path? Tell us your story.
1:47.7	Okay. Well, I was born and raised up in the San Francisco Bay Area and come from a family
1:56.4	that had no connection to the arts or the film industry in any way. My father had a printing
2:03.0	and publishing company up in San Francisco. My mom was a speech therapist. I'm number 4
2:08.7	or 5 kids. I loved movies. I loved television shows. I remember as a little kid with my friends
2:19.3	in the neighborhood, we would act out scenes from movies that we had seen. Mainly Disney
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