So You Want to Be a Director?

Therefore, you intend to become a movie director? Isn’t that what everyone desires. It’s the control thing, and the capacity. Presume about those individuals following your every dictation. Or probably there’s something you want to say and you want them to listen to you. Or perhaps not. You wish a career, power, and glory. The large question is: DO YOU SEE PICTURES IN YOUR HEAD. If the answer is no then you might want to forget about becoming a director or a cinematographer. 

Directors and Cinematographers can string pictures together in their head, like a Composer can “hear” music and then write it down. Musicians that play with their instruments until they discover a tune are not real musicians. Real Musicians hear music in their minds, then jot it down, or play it. Most of us are just hanging about and there is no denying that it is fun to do. Several people say Directing is a vocation, like being a Priest or a Doctor. It is not remotely like being a Priest or a Doctor, but it may be a vocation, because no-one in their right thoughts would voluntarily go through the kind of hell that a Film Director has to go through. The job description of these film directors do not revolve solely on visualizing scenes in their heads, but it also involves dealing with demanding and very varied group of actors and actresses. Sometimes somebody  the likes of Karasawa or Hitchcock arrives into play. People like them are so brilliant that they clearly do not live in the same world as us mere mortals. And it is up to us to Guard and Preserve People like Them – the Brilliant Ones. In the Good Old Days, the Outstanding Ones were revered by society: Philosophers, Writers, Composers, and Artists. Currently most film directors get the same kind of treatment but they are not considered as the Brilliant Ones because they are just those people who intend to get in front of the spotlight and make a  good movie. 

There are two things that you have remember if you intend to become a director one is that bad behavior is not necessary and another is that you do not have to burden yourself with technical information. It is really not a big issue for him or her to concentrate on the script and the actors and actresses in the movie. This because it is our job as the crew to impart all the necessary technical knowledge. The DP, Operator (maybe the exact same person) and the Script Supervisor can work out how to shoot the film with the director. Directors who state everything are really boring to work with – especially when they are nasty. If they are a Great One individuals forgive them, but if they are just boring, then they don’t.