5 Things A Director Should Never Do On Set - Chloe Carroll

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[Gorrittismos]

My 5 cents:
1. Don't be a dictator. Be a leader. Direct! You don't want to be feared, you want to be respected and followed.
2. Don't waste time. If you're not getting what you want and you don't know why, shooting more takes of the same thing - without directions - won't magically fix the scene. Embrace what you have and move on. Unless you can afford doing 100 takes. Time is our friend, lack of prep is our enemy. Be realistic.
3. Don't be confusing. If you haven't made a decision yet, keep it to yourself until you do instead of giving people contradicting information. If you need data to process things, ask the right people in private. If you don't know an answer be honest about it. If you have trouble expressing complex ideas, take your time to think about how you're going to say it before opening your mouth with tons of abstract thoughts that only you understand.
4. Don't be afraid. The unexpected is to be embraced not feared. Face challenges with courage and direct with confidence both the creative and the technical stuff. If you've got insecurities, face them like a grown up.
5. Don't leave things for later. It takes a lot more time, money and effort to "fix" things in post than to fix them on set and they never look or sound as good. Take those 5, 10, 15 or whatever extra minutes on set to make things right.

[lionstarnorth]

A friend of mine who worked on Tenet shared a story with me years ago. He was on set of a huge TV show that was in its initial phase. At that point he was working as a PA. The director walks up to him and another PA and asks "what page are we on?" Needless to say the show tanked.

[LeeWatcher]

There are directors who don't even know the damn story? Then what the hell are they directing, their imagination? Smh I'm in disbelief

[arthousefilms]

Wow!! Some directors don't know the story properly? That seems crazy! So many filmmakers would kill to be directing something for pay and putting their aesthetics on film! The directors who don't know the story should probably go back to directing pharmaceutical ads :-)

[interstellarbeatteller]

Each project is different but the only Universal rule is a standard of behaviour.
-Each actor is an individual and needs to be treated as such, likewise all sections of the crew are imperative...you are also helping them acheive their vision and goals on the project

[jaredkunish]

Some people are lambasting directors for not knowing their story but forget that not every director is directing a story they wrote. Granted, thats no excuse for not knowing the story. You should definitely talk with the writer and your crew about it and make sure yall are on the same page. But also, some directors dont even know their own story. You have to really delve into and analyze your own script, figure out character motivations, essential actions for the actor, themes, blocking... there's so much you have to know that actors will ask you about. Just knowing what happens on the page isnt good enough, you really have to KNOW your story.

[lemarrthomas]

Good advice. I really enjoy these videos. Very helpful.

[xianthegaian]

A director shouldn't get in the way of the other artists doing their "thing", directors should wait and see how the actors interpret their lines then offer tips and advise on how to improve the quality of the scenes from a viewers point of view. So pretty much they just gotta have good taste.

[Zebred]

Most audiences don't care about the crap that the film industry has been oozing out for the last fifteen or twenty years. These directors are just getting ahead of the curve!

[TimothyOBrien]

I've met Chloe and her hubby. Nice people.

[filmcourage]

What is something a director should never do on set?

[mandalore]

I don't understand people who become directors yet have no stories they want to tell. Is it just nepotism? Is it just people high up in society and the opportunity gets handed to them and they think it's cushy/prestigious? Why go into that career and only ever direct scripts you've been given by some producer, that half the time you aren't even interested in. I understand good directors can do this too. But I just can't wrap my head around this blase attitude towards the craft. I'd only ever direct something I wrote. I have zero interest in other people's scripts.