POST 28 - Working From a Script 9- Directing Your Actors

WORKING FROM A SCRIPT - DIRECTING OUR ACTORS

Here are some pictures of the script that I have annotated explaining at points how I want the actors to perform through voice, expression and movement. 








I had a discussion with the editor about what I wanted for the final piece, and how I wanted each part to look and sound. We made two different cuts using the same footage to get an idea of how we wanted each scene to look, one by the editors, one by the director and camerawoman we discussed the different shots that we had and went through each cut and picked out the ones that we wanted to use. The editors captured our ideas really well and the final piece is very similar to what we had imagined and the storyboards shown below. 




After reading through the script, annotating it for the actors' directions etc. the editor drew some storyboards to get a better idea of what the final piece was going to look like. We had the storyboards with us when filming so that we could position the actors according to the drawings, we did change some of the positions to fit the setting and the camera angles but the final piece is relatively similar and worked very well. The storyboard gave us some flexibility with the filming because we had an idea of how we wanted the actors and the setting to look beforehand so it made the process a lot quicker, although we could have left the storyboard a little more to get a bigger variety of different shots and camera angles. The editors and sound person helped with the directing because we all had different ideas about different parts of the scene so we took ideas from each other and compromised until we created one final idea that worked for all of us. The actors were very good and took the directions very well which made the directing a lot easier and quicker for the lines to be said, which left more time for us to repeat the dialogue at different angles, although because of the cold temperatures at the different settings, it did limit the time we had to film because the actors were so cold between takes. 

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