As a filmmaker, I need to understand what’s important to make a great piece of media, otherwise, I will end up creating stuff I am not happy with and more importantly, something other people aren’t happy with.
Over the last month or so, during the direction and editing workshops, and I have begun to understand what’s important. Directing actors in a way that they give their best performance and not making them force something they’re not happy with. As a director, you’ve got to respect the actors and feel they will give they will interpret the script in a way that works because if you cross the line in telling them what to exactly do, you will end up with a bad performance from them.
This leads to editing and why this is also important. If you edit something that doesn’t feel natural, the audience will know where the cuts are and this takes them out of the film. You don’t want the audience to sit there uncomfortable with the way it is edited. You’ve got to edit it in a way that feels natural and this is something you do by not cutting on the dialogue.
Both editing and direction is something I have struggled with, but over the last couple of months, I feel more comfortable directing people and understand the best way to edit scenes. Both the editing and direction workshops have opened my eyes to improving on things I thought I knew.
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