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Directions.

Directions.

In this unit I will be exploring working as a director through the production of a short film. I will need to display my directorial skills and consider the details when working on this project.

Workshop

We started the unit off with an introduction to the brief and a workshop on directing our own mini-scene.
We were given scenarios and in our group we each chose a different one to direct and act out among us. I chose a scenario that involved one character tripping over and dropping things.
For this I decided to make it a comedy skit, it was simple and easy to edit, and fairly easy to tell the actors what I wanted. 
If I had had more time I would have tried to find a better soundtrack but from past experience I thought it would be better have an okay one rather than none at all.
I did find it difficult to explain the shots that I wanted from the person operating camera. I kept feeling like I wanted to take the camera and place it where I wanted but I knew that that would defeat the object of giving directions.
I think this is something I will struggle with as I work very visually rather than verbally, but practicing is the only way I can improve and hopefully by the end of the project it will come more naturally.
This workshop helped me understand where I'm going to struggle so that I can improve in that aspect before it comes to the real production.

First Thoughts

My first thoughts on this project is that I'm nervous and excited.
I'm glad that I don't need to come up with the script as that's something I struggle with (I can never seem to get it right in my opinion) and I'm really excited to work with real actors as I have done before and it's been a great experience and also good to get contacts. I'm nervous about reshooting a scene that's been done by someone more experienced and with a bigger budget, but I'm hoping I can do it justice and create something with my own creative vision that's also achievable.
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