'The Practice' season 2, ep 8: "The Means"

Ok, here's a pretty solid episode from season 2 that was actually made during season 2 - and it's my "directing" debut! Well, the episode itself was directed by Oz Scott, but he never shot the video monitor inserts for the courtroom scene that opens the show. He gave me the surveillance video footage and I designed the shots around the court testimony in the Avid. When it came time to shoot the inserts of the TV monitor for the scene, production scheduled what production always schedules to shoot TV monitor inserts - about 1/2-hour with a minimal camera crew - expecting one single take through of the material to suffice. In I waltz with over a dozen very specific shots planned, complete with tight pans and zooms to match the scene exactly. About an hour into shooting, production is all over the walkie shouting where is 2nd unit, wondering what the frick is taking so damn long to get my shots. Anyway, they let me keep going until I got what I needed, and the result is exactly as Oz and I planned.