Movie Directors And The Master Shot
flexibility as a filmmaker to be creative, take chances, and experiment with a scene with the rest of the takes you have time for. During the shooting of my first movie I used a few “wonder shots” hoping they would turn out as I envisioned them. I dreaded the thought of being in post-production when the editor informs me that a scene could not be cut together or was unusable.
I am always a bit nervous after filming a show because I know post-production will reveal any mistakes made during production. Nothing is perfect when making movies. What an independent movie director hopes to avoid at all costs is reshoot days. I work with indie film budgets that rarely allow for reshoots. What I get the first time during filming is what has to be edited. There usually is not enough money to go back to reshoot a scene to fix a problem.
Sure some of the “wonder shots” I
