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A movie director fights with a videographer and with his own ego.
I found the title was something of a constraint on the possible story lines. That isn’t a terrible thing, although I think it would be better to have a title that could go in multiple different directions.
I wrote it from the point of view of a director who has a conflict with a videographer. When I went to record it, I realized a couple of things about the story that I hadn’t thought about it when I wrote it. I confine myself to a 30-minute period to write. Although I often think about the story before I write.
One aspect was that the director character is likely a bit naïve about how you shoot a movie. A large part of the crew report directly to the cinematographer and not the director. If I were to rewrite the story, I think I would try to build up that aspect.
The other aspect is that the director is fighting with his own ego as much as the videographer. He is more interested in “winning” the fight with the videographer than making the film better. I think at the end he has grown a bit and learns to accept that the videographer was right.
Filmmaking is very much a collaborative art. As a director, you need to allow everyone to contribute. I watched a YouTube video about “Full Metal Jacket” where Stanley Kubrick got together with his cast and said he didn’t know how to end the film and asked for ideas. You really need a lot of self confidence to do that kind of thing. Few beginning directors, such as myself, have that self confidence.
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