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Advice while recording

Advice while recording

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Advice while recording

- Okay, so it's the day of the shoot, and all the elements have come together, and it's really happening. So where do you put your head? Where do you put yourself in the big mix of things? And I think you split your time and your head between the awareness of your individual job and the big picture. I think it's really important to be able to switch back and forth because you've been hired to do a specific task, whether it's at the high end, directing or director of photography, or you're just doing a smaller job. I won't say less important, like sound mixer or camera operator. So you have your job, you have your specific task, and usually that involves a combination of technical and creative expertise, or waded from one to the other. So you want to make sure you got that covered, because that's why you're really there. On the other hand, you want to be aware of the rest of the team. You want to be aware of what they're doing because it does impact you. These complicated, long shoots…

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