Section Four Review
Being a Director
Directors come in all shapes and sizes, all ethnicities, all educational backgrounds, and both genders. What they have all in common is a passion for storytelling and the ability to be a leader.
If you are a director, you are born with the need to tell stories. You want to make sense of the world and to entertain yourself and an audience by framing real-life experiences and eternal questions.
You need perspective and a point of view. You need to judge what is good from what is bad. It boils down to having good taste.
It a huge job to interpret the script, shape the actors’ performance, choose every element within the frame, and then use the medium knowledgably and efficiently. You need great leadership qualities ...
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