A great place to start to gain experience on set, observe the process in action and make contacts along the way. If you do a good job it can also be a good way to gain respect from others as most people will have done their time with the role at the start of their careers. I am of course talking about being a Runner.
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Directors Notes or Treatments are a document that explains your film, why you're making it and who you're making it with. I thought it would be valuable to share some of the things I picked up during writing a Director's Notes for the first time.
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An anthology series turned feature film Force of Habit combines the work of 6 female directors and 6 different stories of women going about their everyday lives openly revealing the often hidden world of sexual abuse, the male gaze, and power dynamics within society.
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A Perfectly Normal Family is the story of 11-year-old Emma whose perfectly “normal” family is turned upside down when her father comes out as transgender. The film was based on debut feature director Malou Reymann’s real-life experiences with her own father as a child and seeks to tell a personal story of a family navigating this change together.
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It's certainly a new style of work that I am not used to in the slightest. Having always had externally provided structure in my daily life from school to university and into full-time work, this is the first time that I am 100% in control of how I want to structure what I do in a day...and it's really daunting.
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I realised the importance of having a platform during this pandemic and so this week I spoke to some of those amazing women I've featured in the past to get a real-world view of just how to cope through COVID-19 as a filmmaker.
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Calling myself an aspiring director and only ever pursuing assisting jobs has firmly cemented in my mind that that is all I am worth and capable of doing. But why have I been doing this?
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