From the course: Creating a Short Film: 05 Directing

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Sticking to your vision

Sticking to your vision

- As we looked at in the last tutorial, it's important to defer to your crew and help them feel heard, but there are times when the crew will be wrong. They aren't seeing what's in your head. So sometimes they're well meaning, but they might be pushing you in the wrong direction, and you'll need to know when you need to stick to your guns. This happened in a big way on The Assurance. When we were filming the pivotal goodbye scene, I was having a really tough time getting the performances I needed from the actresses. To add to the stresses, the crew was constantly pressuring me about how we were losing light. To me, performances are more important, and we were shooting raw. Our exposure levels were fine, and I'm a colorist. We can lose a stop of light and I can make the shots match in post. I wasn't worried about it, but I didn't communicate that to them, so they became increasingly insistent that we had to move on, so much so that I couldn't really focus on directing the scene. But as…

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