Director with Studio Production - Comm 360

As stated in other blogs, such as Studio Production Positions and Multi-Madness, my all-time favorite studio production position is the director.  I'm sure I have shown this when blogging about Hamilton Hamish. 

I have said that I do not enjoy having control over just a small part of the production process and I like making decisions for myself. The position of director seems to be the only position that has any control.  All other positions mostly rely on directions of the director.  When I was the director I first ensured that everyone was doing their jobs.  You can think of the director as the quality control before the production starts.  He or she should make sure and remind everyone of their jobs to ensure that everything is in working order and no errors will occur while the production is in action (which is to late).  I have made sure to pay special attention to the audio in pre-production. My reasoning for this is that it is hard to find a mistake for audio even while the filming is in progress. In my experience, audio mistakes are not found until post production when it is too late. So, it is better to be prepared when it comes to audio.  I feel like I did a good job of that.  

Moving on, I made sure that both cameras matched as far as exposure and white balance.  Camera #2 was a little dark, but after fixing the exposure (although it was hard to tell on the video switcher monitor) the white balance was fixed and we were ready to go.  However, looking back, I should have done some extra preproduction work.  I should have ensured that the talents knew their jobs and know where to look and to not move or make distractions while filming.  Other than that, I feel like I have done my job for preproduction.

Moving on to the production.  While filming my main focus was to make sure the camera angles were good.  I made sure that each camera (even if we weren't using it) had a good angle. A good angle means that all exposure and white balance is set, no one is cut off from side to side, and most importantly, head room.  Head room is the space from the top of the shot to the top of the subject's head. However, after post production I have realized that we were actually shooting in full screen and it later is turned to widescreen.  So, in the future I want to solve that mistake by giving a little more head room to compensate. Next, I ensured that I could anticipate who will be speaking next so that way I could time the camera movement and video switch correctly. The only reason I knew to do this was by watching other directors make the same mistake.  As far as mistakes, I feel like I did not pay attention to the timing as much as I could have.  The ending was slightly abrupt and interrupted the conversion suddenly.
All in all, I feel like I have a pretty good feel for production now.