Mark Bedell

If you have the National Geographic Channel on your cable package, tune in this Thursday, November 12th and watch the show: NAKED SCIENCE.  The episode is called “DIRTY BOMB ATTACK”.

     Action actor Mark Bedell art directed portions of the show.  He also effects coordinated the show with his team, and portrayed the “Bomb Expert” as well as one of the Bombers.

     Want to do Bedell a favor? He does not have the National Geographic Channel in his area and would love to see this show, so if it’s easy for you to record stuff from TV it would be great to get a copy. Contact him HERE.


One Response to “Mark Bedell appears on National Geographic Channel!”  

  1. 1 Mark Bedell

    Robert,

    WOW… I had no idea you’d done this!! Amazing! As it turns out I did get a VHS copy. Thanks for everything. Oh and just for clarity sake. It’s true. I Art Directed the post bomb scenes in this documentary. My FX Team and I did all the practical FX, and I portrayed one of the Bombers. I did not “portray” the bomb expert… I WAS the bomb expert. I designed the bomb portrayed based on an amalgamation of many bombs terrorists have used over the years. Obviously not a real bomb… but it had to be documentary quality.

    The production company wanted an entirly realistic bomb… as a citizen, I chose to prortray everything that was portrayed VERY accurtely… but to leave out a key ingredient. The production company reluctantly agreed and that’s what we did.

    So after it was shot, the Depratment of Human Services veiwed the tape and wanted to shut down the production on the grounds that the bomb was TOO realistic.

    I explained… again… that it was realistic but with a missing ingredient. After some back and forth. They signed off on the documentary.

    Then NAT GEO got a hold of the info that I’d left out a bomb ingredient and their quality control people nearly shut it down on the grounds that the bomb wasn’t realistic enough…

    So more explaining that what is portrayed is entirely realistic… there’s just one thing missing… finally everything went off witout a hitch.

    I’m hoping my Art Dept. work will get an award or two. Time will tell!

    Mark
    http://www.Fight-Director.org
    http://www.ActionEI.com
    http://www.MarshallBedell.com

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