I’m one of those “independent film directors”, a cinematographer, and an actor. Why am I telling you this? Because this will help me to quickly explain why a director needs to learn acting. Since I was a director and a cinematographer, that meant that I was technically oriented when on set. But, and this was a big issue, I lacked that special ability to communicate with the actors under pressure. As a director, I could see when the actors were doing a good job, but when the actors really needed direction, which was mostly when things got hectic, I wasn’t able to communicate with them well enough to get the best acting performances. So, I looked into taking acting lessons Convert this post to pdf … Read entire article »