Motion Picture Directing

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director must also know how to deal with a cast and it's many problems. These skills and talents that are required to direct a single scene or an entire movie is entirely up to the director.
A director has many jobs that must be known and taken care of in order to produce a motion picture. He must prepare and decide on a script, choose a cast and a film crew, raise money for production, and find the proper security for when shooting scenes (Marner, p.'6). Before he can even begin on the movie, however, he must first find the proper equipment. This equipment is the tools the director will use to film the entire production. One part of the equipment a director will use is gauges of film. There are three gauges of film which may come within the budget of a film group (Ferguson, p.'"). Theses types are '6mm., 8mm., and Super 8. These products are film for a movie. The director will also need to get cameras. His choices are a cinema-camera, a reflex camera, or a non-reflex ...

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clapper. Finally the director will scream the word "action" (Marner, p.54). If the director follows these steps while shooting a scene, he has shown he has the skills to create a motion picture.
While shooting a scene motion occurs frequently. This motion comes from the movement of all the different cameras on the set. The director wants the best possible shot for his film and the only way to achieve this shot is through movement of the camera. Movement is the moving of the camera to find the perfect shot. When determining the movements for a shot, the director must take into consideration many different things, such as the angle of the camera, the length of the shot, and where the ...

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