From the course: Creating a Short Film: 05 Directing
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Wearing multiple hats
From the course: Creating a Short Film: 05 Directing
Wearing multiple hats
- As we've talked about pretty consistently in these training courses, I wore many hats on The Assurance. Some of those jobs like editor, director, and visual effects artist, I took on so I could speak to those tasks in this training. Others like producer and director of photography, I took on only out of necessity. As we saw in our interview with actress Eva Jane in the last training course on acting, it was obvious to everybody that I spread myself too thin. Well obviously everybody but me. I thought I was doing okay at handling all these roles but it was a distraction and my team totally felt it. A lot of times when you're new to film making, you're prone to all kinds of amateur mistakes so it's kind of hard to get people to get on board with you and your vision so you might have to take on multiple roles just to get your film project off the ground but I just wanted to make it clear that what I did on The Assurance is not the ideal situation. That film would have been so much…
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