What stuck out most to me of what Darrin Fletcher said in class yesterday is that there are a thousand different ways that you can become a director. Of all the directors he's worked with in the film industry, each one has had a different rise to their directorial debut. He talked about the tenacity each person has to have in order to eventually make it in the movie industry, and that it's important to form your own style after looking at the work of so many others. Fun fact: he's also worked on the classic Transformers and Spiderman and His Amazing Friends cartoons!!
Work hard. Be the hardest worker that you can. That's what stuck out to me most. He also said that if you're working on more than your first picture for free, than you're doing things wrong. Here are some other things that I thought were really profound.
-Accept responsibility for your job. Do your best.
-The business is 99% who you know.
-Every single project you work on is different. Don't allow yourself to sink into a routine. Treat each project differently.
-GREAT DIRECTORS ARE GREAT LISTENERS, and they're humble!
On top of all this, he showed us a rubric for a typical storyboard layout, and he said that a typical storyboard for a full-length feature will circle an entire room nearly from ceiling to floor. The rubric he showed us fit on a typical sheet of paper. On the right side, you have the widescreen borders of each shot, and to the left of each border, a description of the camera movement, lines from the script, and what's generally going on in the shot. It was a pretty useful layout, and I can see myself using that same method on pictures I'll make in the future.
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