How to Manage a Movie Set

Video Transcript

"Hi this is Rhett Reiger White Caspian studios on behalf of Expert Village. I want to talk for a minute about the shoot in general. Now this is the meat of being a director. You are on the shoot. You are running it and this is where things start to fly because you're working long days, hard days, millions of people running and talking in both of your ears all day long. Handing you things. Sign this, do I do this, do I not do that. Very stressful. So you've got to be prepared and that's kind of what we talked about in the preproduction segment of it. But there's somethings in shooting that are going to be difficult and one of the biggest of those is working with actors can be tough. Actors typically have ego's. This goes without saying. If you're dealing with somebody with an ego and their very concerned about their appearance and how they're coming off and how you talk to them and everything. You've got to be sensitive to that because these people can make or break your film. So when you're dealing with actors with egos there's got to be a lot of encouragement in order all the time. Encouraging when you don't feel like encouraging. Second you've got to be sensitive to how you deal with problems. If an actor is not delivering. Instead of just flying off the handle and saying what's wrong with you, get this right we're running out of time, on and on and on. Maybe just shut down the set. Shutting the set down for ten minutes can save everybody's moral but trying to push it, push it, push it even though you're short on time can end up costing you a lot more time with multiple re-shoots and resets and everything else. So you've got to deal with actors in a very professional way and again you have to respect their professionalism because an actor is all about creating a role. That's what they're good at. So as a director you need to tell them what you're trying to get out of them but you can't act for them. You can't tell them how to act. You've got to let them be what they are and that is an actor."