Making Sort Films (The complete Guide From Script to Screen) by Clifford Thurlow.
Directing the Story (Professional Storytelling and Storyboarding Techniques for Live Action and Animation). by Francis Glebas.
The job of any director in the media industry is taking control of the production and crafting it in his or her image. Though the requires a lot more then just merely telling people what to do that is only some of the many tasks that this profession has to offer.
'The director, whatever his modus operandi, will invariably work on the script and his name often finds its way on to the writing credits, something Hitchcock grandly renounced.' Thurlow (2005: 31).
The director is a visionary, and must be a team player if anything goes wrong. This person is the heart of the whole production, if the director panics them the whole cast and crew will panic and the production will go out of control and will not get completed within the deadline set.
Also what is very important for a director to do is to work with different actors. Some actor maybe ask for requests or other things to have on set at all times in order to work. Even with a likelihood of that happening there are some actors out there who with give you are hard time.
'Actors develop and refine this art; the director like a hypnotist will draw out the appropriate memories to bring a scene to life.' Thurlow (2005: 33).
From the start the director focuses on the script, whenever your idea is created focus on getting as much out of your script as possible. Make sure also that whoever is in your team (most importantly your actors) understands the material as well as the story they will be focusing on throughout the production. To some of them, it is their bible and their guide through the process of a successful completion of another piece of art to be viewed by all who want to see it.
Is there a secret to telling the perfect story? Are there technics and methods to use while constructing a perfect tale? According to writer Francis Glebas, the secret of storytelling is story-delaying as detailed within a book he wrote with a chapter of the same name. He tells of Scheherazade, a legendary queen and storyteller, writer of One Thousand and One Nights.
'Scheherazade used exciting cliffhangers to prolong her life from one night to the next. There's a whole repertoire of story-delying techniques based on the control of the flow of information of who gets to know what, when, and how.' Francis Glebas (2009: 19).
Technique number 1 - Cliff hangers
Within storying telling that is a very useful tool especially for television. When working on a series of episodes some require cliff hangers to keep the audience engaged and tuned in next week to see what happens next. For films it can be tricky, unless some films are based on books which some might require a cliff hanger to introduce the next book and film in the series. For single films with a cliff hanger at the end would require very cleaver writing. Like Inception, the cliff hanger shows the spinning top still spinning indicating that the main protagonist is still in the dream. This confused yet hooked the audience as they quest on questioning either the protagonist made it out of the dream or is still lost in it.
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