Another provided reading I would like to reflect upon, is The Wisdom of the Unrehearsed Scene, these pages ask the question of why some directors spend a long time rehearsing a scene, getting more and more specific as the production goes along between meetings with the actors and more rehearsals.

In the reading, we also see how different directors have diverse methods of “ rehearsing” or preparing the actors for the scene making me realise that there is no one set way to organise and prepare a scene but there are other ways that might be more efficient depending on the resources and actors cast.

In the reading, it is stated that preparing the actors too strictly before shooting can be counterproductive. For instance, giving more freedom to the actors allows them to act more freely and use their skills as they see fit giving them the power to modify the script to suit them better.

Personally, I agree with these statements. An actor should be free to feel the character they are going to play and how they may react to events happening in the script. In my personal experience when shooting a short film last year, it resulted in giving liberty to the actors without forcing them in a single direction. The characters of the short film were facing some emotional distress and the actors beautifully recreated those emotions with the freedom they had. Of course, in some instances though, the actors were guided so that they could reflect the vision we had for the film so to allow there to be consistency between the characters in different scenes.