ABSTRACT
The elements of preproduction and production that must occupy the director from the second chair begin months before shooting. As from the creative chair, the director's motto from the managerial chair is "preparation". Many of the directors troubled delegating responsibility. The director must take responsibility for the entire production— screenplay, acting, production design, camera, sound. The producer's job is to do everything possible to help the director achieve his artistic goal. In preproduction, the assistant director (AD) coordinates with the director and the director of photography (DP) to schedule the shots that are to be required at each location, and to schedule, with the director's input, the most efficient order in which to complete the shots. The length of a shoot is usually dependent on the budget. The most professionally intimate relationship on the set, aside from director/actor, is DP. The director must look at the DP's previous work and find that the director envisions for the current project.
