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It requires an ability to collaborate and an understanding of how to get the

best out of a creative team.

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A director is responsible for the details, quality, and meaning of the final film.

The director’s job is to coordinate the collective expertise of the film team and inspire its
creative energy into producing a single, stylistically unified and coherent cinematic story.

During pre--production this requires writing or working with writers.

Envisioning the film’s scope, purpose, identity, and meaning.

Finding appropriate locations.

Auditioning and casting actors.

Assembling a crew.

Developing both cast and script through rehearsals.

Developing the technical and stylistic approach with the various department heads (camera, sound and art departments).

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Directing

Stage the scene for the camera. Assure that the performances Second: The
are strong, consistent and First: The Crew
appropriate.
Actors

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Oversees the creative aspects of the The director works with an editor to
editing and finalization of the project. guide the film through all the editing
stages.

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Using your smartphone, create a 30-second to 1-

minute scene.

Use record-pause-record technique (to avoid

editing).

Team A: Staring contest with AMBU.

Team B: Two friends fight over a remaining fish ball

on stick that leads to a fight sequence.

Team C: A person can telepathically control another

person’s body movement.

Shooting rules: The

The scriptwriter will director will direct
take the lead in and/or act, the
writing the sequence scriptwriter will act,
outline. the cinematographer
will take the shots.

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Short films are between Features (full length) are

two and 30 minutes. those with a running
Ideal length is 15 time of 80 minutes or
minutes. more.

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REMEMBER:
FILMMAKING IS
STORYTELLING.

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DEVELOP CONNECTS AND PUT THAT THAT HAS AND CAN

MATERIAL THAT WITH YO MATERIAL INTO TENSION CONNECT WITH
A SHAPE AN AUDIENCE
ON A
NARRATIVE,
EMOTIONAL,
AND THEMATIC
LEVEL.

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A director must have a solid understanding of the

basic elements of a story to do their job well—

To recognize a strong screenplay

Explore its full potential,

Stage scenes for the camera effectively,

Discuss the nuances of character and narrative

line with actors and crew

In short to bring that story to life on the screen.

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Person versus
Person versus person environment or social
(external conflict) institution (external
conflict)

Person versus a task they Person versus themselves,

are compelled to as in someone with
undertake (internal and conflicting traits or beliefs
external conflict) (internal conflict).

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What does this character want?

What keeps the character from

getting what s/he wants?

What keeps the story going is the

character’s action to overcome
obstacles to get what s/he wants.

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What are the consequences if the

character fails to achieve their objective?

What specifically is at stake?

Characters become motivated and the

story becomes interesting when the
objectives are imperative, and the stakes
are high.

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The The The

character action tension

The obstacles
Strategies to
Objective reach the
objective
The stakes

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Obstacle
Character A Character B

Character A’s Character B’s

strategies strategies

Obstacle Objective Obstacle

Character C’s Character D’s

strategies strategies
Character C Character D
Obstacle

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Telling a story about characters in conflict

using

Action

Dialogue

Visual detail

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Transforming internal desires, feelings, needs and

thoughts into

Goals

Action

Human behavior

Within a carefully organized plot

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Art direction (locations, set

dressing, costuming, props, and
make-up)

Cinematography (recording
format, lighting, exposures,
choice of lenses, focus, camera
angles, and movements)

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Speech , which includes dialogue

recorded on location with the picture (
sync sound ), dialogue we dub in later in
postproduction, and voice-over narration.

Sound effects include noises recorded in

sync on location, those recorded later in
postproduction (Foley effects) and those
gathered from sound libraries ( hard
effects ).

Ambient sounds or atmospheres

Music

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Continuity style uses

multiple shots and angles
edited together to
construct coherent time,
space, and action.

Long-take style presents

continuous time and action
without interruption.

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Scenes should show the

Create a long take scene of
characters strategies toward
2 to 3 minutes in length. No Stakes should be clear.
achieving his/her objective
cuts. No pauses.
hindered by obstacles.

Team A: Extreme hunger. Team B: Numbness. Team C: Diarrhea.

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Shooting rules: The

director will direct
The scriptwriter will
and/or act, the
write the scene script
scriptwriter will act,
with dialogue.
the cinematographer
will shoot.

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Be careful not to break frame (have an actor’s body

part touch or move beyond the established edge of
the picture frame)

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Beware: Use sparingly!

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This is a good start, but the face is still

front on. This can cause a flattening to
the facial features and is not always that
flattering to talent or that interesting for Let us put a small shift on how the talent
the viewer. is standing in relation to the camera.

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Look room

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Profile two-shot.

Direct to camera two-shot.

Over-the-shoulder two-shot.

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