(500) Days of Summer

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Director

Marc Webb

Bio

MARC WEBB (Director) directs stuff. Short films, videos, commercials, drinking games. Whatever. He has won several MTV VMAs™ including 2006 Best Rock Video for AFI’s “Miss Murderâ€� and Best Group Video for The All-American Rejects’ “Move Along.â€� The Music Video Production Association honored him in 2006 as the Director of the Year for his work with Weezer, AAR and My Chemical Romance. 500 DAYS OF SUMMER is Webb’s first feature. He likes penne pasta and hates to be called “chiefâ€� or “buddy.â€� His short film SEASCAPE premiered at the Aspen Comedy Festival, which is funny, because he didn’t think it was funny. So, to ensure he wouldn’t make another comedy, he went to Baghdad to direct a documentary on the first day of school in post-war Iraq. But people laughed at him there too. Webb studied at Colorado College, NYU for a semester and Art Center for a few months. He received a Newberry Fellowship and spoke at his graduation. The person next to him told him to shut up. His dad is a mathematician and his mother is a biologist. His brother just had another baby. Her name is Isabelle. Marc has pictures if you want to see.

Director- Job Description

The principal creative artist on a movie set. A director is usually (but not always) the driving artistic source behind the filming process, and communicates to actors the way that he/she would like a particular scene played. A director's duties might also include casting, script editing, shot selection, shot composition, and editing. Typically, a director has complete artistic control over all aspects of the movie, but it is not uncommon for the director to be bound by agreements with either a producer or a studio. In some large productions, a director will delegate less important scenes to a second unit director 2UD.