Elements and Performance Criteria
- Prepare for actual production.
- Brief performers about any specific technical requirements in collaboration with relevant production personnel where necessary.
- Establish appropriate lines of communication between relevant production personnel to ensure smooth running of production.
- Inform and update relevant production personnel of changes in production requirements that may have occurred since final rehearsals.
- Review relevant dramatic elements dealt with in rehearsals.
- Throughout actual production activity, run through scenes with performers immediately prior to recording where time allows.
- Facilitate performances.
- Create an appropriate environment to maximise performances and characterisations, including conduct of appropriate warm-up activities.
- Ensure appropriate OHS requirements are met in line with enterprise procedures.
- Communicate with relevant production personnel clearly and provide constructive feedback throughout production process.
- Identify and rectify creative problems throughout production in collaboration with relevant production personnel.
- Ensure performers are kept informed of filming order of scenes as required.
- Assist performers throughout the entire production to understand desired mise en scene effect, size of each shot or framing, and their role in the context of whole shot or scene.
- Engage performers in the control of the narrative by use of techniques that allow for character sub text.
- Wrap production.
- Check all scenes are recorded and complete, including spot checks of actual recordings for quality and accuracy.
- Stand down production crew and complete necessary documentation according to enterprise procedures.
- Make arrangements for additional production requirements as required and ensure relevant production personnel are informed appropriately.
- Evaluate all aspects of the shoot from a director's perspective, including own performance, and note areas for improvement.
- Provide positive feedback to relevant production personnel and invite comment on the shoot.