1. DIRECTING TIPS

2. “ The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.” -William Shakespeare

3. How you tell the story is more important than the story itself.

4. PREPRODUCTION

5. Plan Everything in Preproduction!

6. 7 Elements of Visual Style

8. Space

9. Line & Shape

10. Tone

11. Colour

12. Movement

13. Rhythm

14. “ Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” -Albert Einstein

15. Picture One Shot

16. Picture One Shot

20. Page count

21. Colour Coding

23. INT. NIGHT = Highlight Pink

24. EXT. DAY = White (no highlight)

25. EXT. NIGHT = Highlight Purple

26. DAWN/DUSK = Highlight Orange.

27. Characters = Underline Red

28. Props = Underline Purple

29. Stunts = Underline Orange

30. Vehicle/Animals = Underline Blue

31. Special Equipment = Draw a box

32. Extras = Highlight Green

33. Wardrobe = Circle

34. Special Effects = Highlight Blue

35. Make-up/Hair = Mark with an asterisk

36. Sound Effects/Music = Underline in brown

41. Notes

42. Cheatsheets

43. Storyboards

44. Shotlists

45. Schedules

46. Contracts

47. Extra Graph Paper

48. Plan Everything in Preproduction!

49. PRODUCTION

50. Plan Everything in Preproduction!

51. Don't Fix it in Post!

52. It's the Actor's Job is to Act, Not Yours!

55. Adjustments

56. Images

57. Facts

58. Events

59. Physical Tasks

60. Do It Wrong

61. Listening

62. Play with the actors expectations

63. The Director's Vision is Blurry

64. Get Good Sound

67. The Eyeline

68. Coverage

69. The 180 rule

70. The 30 degree rule

71. Always shoot the characters entering and leaving

72. Capture the emotion, not images

73. 90% perfect is perfect enough

74. Don't Fix it in Post!

75. POST PRODUCTION

76. Fix it in Post!

79. Cut on motion

80. Avoid the ping-pong cut

81. Show reactions

82. Action cuts get shorter and shorter until the climax of the scene followed by one long shot for resolution

85. Cut

86. Picture lock

87. Music and sound spotting

88. ADR/looping

89. Scoring

90. Color correction

91. Pre-lay/pre-dub

92. Titling and legends

93. Mix/dub

94. Answer print

95. Backup Everything!

96. Backup Everything! TWICE!