Well if you’d like to write/direct/produce and shoot… you might as well get into the home/vacation movie market. You’re family is sure to love you for your efforts.

7. Rehearse on set
Aren’t you supposed to be ready to shoot? Rehearsals should be done with. Your actors and crew should have their game faces on and be ready to shoot.

- Marcus

Thanks for stopping by. The best catering ever (I do not see that one being surpassed), was on a music documentary with Pete Townsend. The day before the shoot, an american investor suddenly chipped in money, about tenfolding the budget. Lots of people – including me – were hired in on short notice. There wasn’t really enough work to do, but I found one, and enjoyed the concert, while getting paid for it. Oh, and the catering included lobster
Usually though, catering is more of the “Living in Oblivion” standard, or slightly above. Once the “director” came with a tin of tuna and some whitebread loafs. But no can opener. Lol!

As to what sort of director I am, I must say that I am not. I’m a cameraman (one that many directors say stays amazingly calm in even very heated situations. – Only 2 directors so far have managed to get me angry…)

20 shoots, or Takes as we call it, is nothing special. Stanley Kubrick was said to have moved into the 3 digit take numbers. Really depends a lot on your director, the actors – and of course the technical crew. One of the many reasons to pay them decently!

Ive been on a set once or twice, as my sister in law works in the office on the “Smallville” set (it’s being filmed here) It was neat to see all the catering and such for the crew and all the extras. When I was there and watched, one scene took about 20 times to shoot. I imagined it would be a lot “faster” than that.

What kind of film director are you?