Week 3 Individual directing task

So for this individual directing task we went out in groups of around 6 to shoot one shot from a scene, using the scripts Paul gave us. I won’t like, I did not like this task.
I love directing however, being forced to direct something in 10 minutes that you are “proud” of, is near impossible. We had issues with the white balance and that took almost ten minutes to try to resolve. I like the idea of being forced to direct something in a shot time, I just think that ten minutes is suuuuuper impossible.
The idea behind the task is a really good one, however, if we could have been given 20 minutes to the task each it would have been a lot better.
We ended up just saying well look, we don’t have time to make this perfect so just shoot whatever so we have actually shot something. Myself and another member of the group didn’t get to direct our scene because we went over the ten minute requirements trying to help the other members get their shots done.
I think most people in the class felt this way, and in a way it still taught us some valuable lessons so it wasn’t all negative.
We learnt that planning and time management is so freaking important when making a film. You need to utilise every minute of a shoot and literally time schedule down to the individual minutes to be productive.

Shoots never go perfectly, but if you can plan your time management, by god you will be so much better off!