Tips to become a film director or theater

Become directors is the dream of all fans of cinema or theater. Many of us, as children or teenagers, have tried the thrill of cinematic or theatrical direction just experiencing it at school, and was moved to tears to manage phantom actors and friends in improvised performances or music videos. The passion of the camera all the senses, culturally and intellectually committed each of us, because it makes us come to terms with the reality in relation to the way we are, because the director is not only interprets reality as experienced by the protagonists of our time or that told by the greats of world literature. The director, in fact, puts his in the general direction of the play or film, imagining, in a visionary and a high level of sensitivity, which is the "product" made: this ability depends on all the work of producing a film, a drama, a comedy and a developed artistic subtended by any figure of a director.


Directed harmonizes and affects all other professionals involved in the creative and artistic production of cultural products film or theater, but also television. The director acts as the referee of the feelings, the practical form of fantasy or more specifically, is responsible for all phases of the production of a film or a play, an event or a television broadcast or even the radio. He oversees and provides the last word on every stage of production and performance: is in charge of choosing actors, the way they act giving them advice and guidance; master the techniques and methods of shooting, photography, and lighting; deals yet the production phases techniques such as assembly, while also supervises phases not directly under its full responsibility artistic-creative, technical and organizational, such as production problems or the script.

The director is also responsible for directing products of various types: film, fiction, plays, and performances of various kinds, broadcasting, and advertising, multimedia performances. Learn the art of filmmaking is not a small thing: you have to start early youth, to be moved by a passion, have a sensitive soul and a spirit of observation well developed. The director is a professional with a high cultural baggage, so study directing means not only learn the technical and organizational concepts of this art form, but also be able to see the world, dig into the human soul and to understand the reasons and the relationships between the people with the surrounding reality: the director, in fact, is a great observer as well as an expert performer.

Courses they teach really become directors are of various kinds, and most importantly, many in U.S. For this you have to be very careful and rely on well-known schools, famous or otherwise good schools where there are professional teachers of undoubted ability and professional standing: in the main American cities there are standard and very advanced even compared to the new technologies used in the field director of the audiovisual industry in general.

As for the theater, you know U.S. has had great teachers, and has still; you just have to be careful not to jump blindly in dealing with anonymous training courses, sometimes so expensive and unnecessary. You will have to monitor a little 'schools before signing up, paying attention to some basic requirements. First, the schools must teach directing great professionals of the sector in which you are going to operate, especially those schools or academies must be provided with adequate space and sophisticated technological tools to do a job like that. In addition, these schools should provide a real insertion into, to ensure that you get the test in a world in itself very competitive and difficult, from a business point of view, artistic and productive. These three parameters are the main topics that can tell you the school serious and reliable, actually prepared in vocational training for theater, film, radio and television for what concerns the direction, of course.

Pay attention to the course structure. The courses must ensure preparedness to 360 degrees with respect to different types of construction: fiction, documentary, narrative feature film, short film, and video, serial. It must include, in addition to lectures, real practical tests and laboratory experiments. The lessons, therefore, need to go deeper into the different fields in which the director is called into question: the medial and expressive language, script, methodologies and shooting techniques, lighting, production steps, interactions with other artistic figures, professional and related fields Action: producer, production designer, cinematographer, costume designer, producer, the script editor, composer, or the head of the music, the actors...

For this reason, schools should aim to provide real direction theoretical and practical knowledge regarding the screenplay, visual perception, the acting, the editing, to work to the best of decoupage of the story-board, the choice of locations and contexts of setting of casting (i.e. the choice of actors), the script and then the script, filming and then editing. 

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