Underschedule when in doubt, particularly during the first two or three days. Keep the crew involved as the film’s content and themes develop. Be tolerant of the crew’s incomplete grasp of subject development. Their crafts require nearly all their concentration. Authorship: Look for subtext in each situation, and try to shoot so that its existence becomes evident. Consider using side-coaching to impel something nascent into being. Be aware of life roles that people fall into and be ready to make positive use of them. Think of the dramatic characterization each seems to have adopted. Create a private metaphor for each person, situation, and activity to help you think poetically and metaphorically rather than materially and didactically. Practice finding the dialectics in all relationships, and prepare to make evident any important confrontations. Make sure to expository material (facts, biographical and any other vital points) in more than one way during shooting so you will have options in editing. Periodically check your shopping lists to make sure nothing has been overlooked Remember that neither crew nor participants will have a director’s demonic energy. POSTPRODUCTION CHECKLIST Aspects of editing: Well used, film language helps the audience enter a character’s (or storyteller’s) stream of consciousness. Interesting discrepancies of information urge the audience into an active, problem-solving relationship with the film. Every call to imagination or judgment acknowledges the audience’s intelligence and invites their participation in discovery.
Underschedule when in doubt, particularly during the first two or three days. Keep the crew involved as the film’s content and themes develop. Be tolerant of the crew’s incomplete grasp of subject development. Their crafts require nearly all their concentration. Authorship: Look for subtext in each situation, and try to shoot so that its existence becomes evident. Consider using side-coaching to impel something nascent into being. Be aware of life roles that people fall into and be ready to make positive use of them. Think of the dramatic characterization each seems to have adopted. Create a private metaphor for each person, situation, and activity to help you think poetically and metaphorically rather than materially and didactically. Practice finding the dialectics in all relationships, and prepare to make evident any important confrontations. Make sure to expository material (facts, biographical and any other vital points) in more than one way during shooting so you will have options in editing. Periodically check your shopping lists to make sure nothing has been overlooked Remember that neither crew nor participants will have a director’s demonic energy. POSTPRODUCTION CHECKLIST Aspects of editing: Well used, film language helps the audience enter a character’s (or storyteller’s) stream of consciousness. Interesting discrepancies of information urge the audience into an active, problem-solving relationship with the film. Every call to imagination or judgment acknowledges the audience’s intelligence and invites their participation in discovery.
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