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I'm Not Even Sure I Understand What A Director Actually Does

TheConductorTheConductor
edited 2011-09-07 17:16:37 in General
This makes me feel really embarrassed. 

Comments

  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    He sits in his chair and tells other people how to do their jobs.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH OH WOW, WICKED, U SO FUNNY
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    The director oversees the creative work. How the actors move, say their lives, the shots, angles, what the scenery looks like, lighting, casting, etc. Directors often times will be writers as well.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    And producers as well.

    Producers are like directors except less micromanaging but they also control the purse strings, so what they say tends to go.
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    It's only been in the last few years that I've really paid attention to direction in films, nowadays I can tell a Burton or a Nolan or a Tarintino film just by looking at a scene from them, but I'm not sure what it is they actually do or contribute to the process that makes their films look like that.

    Every time someone explains it to me and I start to think I'm getting it I find that what I assumed to be the work of a director is actually the work of other people (writers, set designers, ect).

    Anyone wanna set me straight?
  • captainbrasscaptainbrass
    He's the ringmaster - stands in the middle of the circus, cracks his whip, and gets all the animals/acrobats/clowns to run on and do their stuff in the right order and without crashing into each other, whilst making sure the audience stay interested.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    The Director basically goes and checks every process of work in the film. Editing, acting, rehearsals, etc etc. and gives his input as well as what he wants to them. 

    Producers get in charge of getting the best people for the job. 
  • Wicked223Wicked223
    We Played Some Open Chords and Rejoiced, For the Earth Had Circled the Sun Yet Another Year
    What I don't get is, if the director is supposed to select the shots and whatnot, what's the cinematographer supposed to do?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-09-07 17:27:16
    You can change. You can.
    The cinematographer and director of photography work alongside the director. 

    Basically, they first two get shots and angles and they show it to the director, he choose what he likes, how he would like X angle to change, etc etc.
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    So, he's like the proof reader for the film?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-09-07 17:42:28
    You can change. You can.
    Puhretty much. Except he also writes it. In terms of vision, so to speak. He gets the script and he imagines the early stuff and execution. 
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    It would be like if the author just handed the proofreader all the words, and the proofreader could alter them, change them around, fit them to his vision, etc.
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    Alright so, it's like.

    Step 1: Director gets a script (whether he's created it or not)

    Step 2: Director decides how he wants to make the script appear on the screen

    Step 3: Director hires a bunch of people to make that happen

    Step 4: Director makes sure they do it properly
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Pretty much.
  • TheConductorTheConductor
    Sweet, thanks for educating me guys!
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Erm, not really. The producer is essential in the whole thing. Step 3 should be in fact "Producer hires crew (or people to make that happen"

    Also, normally, the producer approaches the director, but admittedly, this is a thing that changes a lot. 
  • NoimportaNoimporta
    Just watch Inception.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Psst, Noms, the commentary in there doesn't work as many would like to think. 

    Not to mention that directors kill their wives, they don't see them jumping off windows. 

    that movie is incredibly inaccurate.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    Dude I have killed twenty women and have yet to hit it big in Hollywood.

    I mean what?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    they weren't your wives. they don't count

    Erm, nothing that was a different poster. totally.
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