Chapter 2. Planning
It pains me to say that most films must be planned. Many creative people, myself included, derive no great pleasure from planning, scheduling, or amassing the resources required to make a film. However, planning your film can be a very rewarding creative experience. The directing process begins the instant you sketch your first rough storyboard. Alfred Hitchcock said that storyboarding his scenes was the only part of the filmmaking process that was truly creative—every stage after that was simply a compromise of this original vision. The best news is that the filmmaking process rewards planning with tangible results. Your camera is a machine for capturing not just what lies before it, but all the decisions that led up to the ...
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