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Kevin is the First Assistant Director on the "odd"-numb episodes, while colleague [[Johnny MacCarthy]] is the First A.D. on the "even"-numbered episodes of ''Supernatural''.
Known as "Parksapedia" for his encyclopedic knowledge of everything Supernatural, I was lucky enough to talk to Kevin after he had just finished directing his first episode -- [[8.14 Unaired Episode|episode 14]] which will air on February 13th -- and was about to head to L.A. for the editing. <br>
'''Kevin:''' It’s never the same. I mean - it is the same but it’s never the same. You go to new locations, you go to a different set that’s been built… it was one thing last week; it’s entirely new this week. There’s always something different in the film world and that’s kind of what kind of what got me into work in the first place. <br><br>
'''Jules:''' ''This is a geeky question now, but when you do your schedules and that, what are you creating them on?'' <br>
'''Kevin:''' It’s all computer-based. The old-fashioned way of doing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Production_board the strip board], was where you hand -write all the strips. Now all that information’s now put on computer. So I have done those strip boards when I first started as a second A.D, I did the long big ones but now we’ve got rid of all that, now we do everything on a computer program called Movie Magic MovieMagic Scheduling and it’s basically very particular to the film industry. <br>
==DIRECTORIAL DEBUT==
'''Jules:''' ''So how did the opportunity to direct come up?''<br>
'''Kevin:''' It sounds kind of weird but in my entire career I’ve never really saw myself as a Director. What I do is more on a producer end of doing things, but once we’d been on the show for seven years it basically came around to asking [[Bob Singer ]] for the chance to do it. Bob gave Johnny MacCarthy (the other first Assistant Director) his episode last year and I got mine for this year. It comes from them respecting the hard work that all of us do, to give us a new challenge and just to say thank you.<br><br>
'''Jules:''' ''So what was it like when you first got the copy of the script?''<br>
'''Kevin:''' The actual script that I was supposed to do wasn’t ready, so the one I shot is actually going to air 14 not 13. So I got it basically the night before I started prepping the episode. I’m really only supposed to get seven days of prep as a Director, but since I had a new AD ([http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002446/ Ella Kutschera]) coming in who hadn’t been here before I came in on the first day just to help her out to get her up to speed and then I started doing my work.<br><br>
'''Jules:''' ''So Ella hadn't worked on the show before?'' <br>
'''Kevin:''' No. So I’ve known Ella for a long time. As AD’s you kind of know each other but you never really work on the same shows because there’s only there’s only one of each of you on a show unless you’re on a series where there’s two firsts and two seconds. When I needed somebody as a first AD A.D. for the episode I was directing there were only a couple of possibilities out there that I wanted, and Ella was one of them. She was available, which was good, and she did a great job.<br><br>
'''Jules:''' ''So then you had a day with her and then you started your prep?''<br>
