I have taken two points from the ‘Developing a Crew’ section of ‘Directing: film techniques and aesthetics’ by Michael Ragiber.

The first point I took from this reading was the importance of setting out defined roles for everyone in our group. Previous to this process I thought this would be a diffiucult thing to do, I know I stress about things sometimes if they are completely out of my control. The need to assign people to specfic roles really did play an important part during the filming of our short, the importance of paying attention to one specific role and making sure that that one role was done properly and effectively was evident. I enjoyed being able to concentrate on being a DOP and putting trust in the others to fulful each of their roles.

I enjoyed reading about the role of the DOP in this reading as well, partly because this was my role in the film and partly because I still did not have a complete understanding of what is entailed in that role. Having a photography background I wanted to be the DOP as I have had experience in creating the aesthetics within the frame, the DOP was quite a big role but a very fulfilling one.