Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for shoots
- Brief performers on technical requirements in collaboration with production personnel where necessary
- Establish lines of communication with production personnel and cast to facilitate smooth running of shoots in line with production timelines
- Update production personnel on changes to production requirements that may have occurred since final rehearsals
- Review dramatic elements dealt with in rehearsals that impact film shoots
- Confirm workplace safety and security requirements are met in line with enterprise procedures
- Facilitate performances
- Run through scenes with performers immediately prior to recording, where time allows
- Create an environment conducive to maximising performances and characterisation, conducting warm-up activities as required
- Collaborate with production personnel and provide feedback throughout shoots
- Identify and rectify creative problems that arise during filming in collaboration with production personnel
- Keep performers informed of filming order of scenes
- Communicate, to performers, the desired mise-en-scène effects, size of each shot or framing, and their role in the context of whole shots or scenes
- Engage performers in control of narratives by using techniques that allow for character sub text
- Wrap productions
- Confirm all scenes are recorded and complete, including spot checks of recordings for quality and accuracy
- Stand down production crew and complete necessary documentation according to enterprise procedures
- Make arrangements for any additional production requirements and inform relevant production personnel
- Evaluate shoot from a director’s perspective, including own performance, and note areas for future improvement
- Provide feedback to production personnel and invite comment on shoots