So you have not had the benefit of rehearsal beyond what you might have gotten done in the auditions and callbacks; or what you worked out with the actor over dinner. You’re now standing on the set promptly at call time, 7:30 a.m. That’s your first mistake.
As we prepare for John Badham's new book, John Badham on Directing, it seemed a great time to look at some advice from his last book, Creative Wars: I'll be In My Trailer. This piece comes straight from John Badham’s experience as a director and it rings just as true for the microfilmmaker with a $3000 budget as it does for the Hollywood director with a $300 million budget. However, these rules are perhaps most important to the microfilmmaker, because a microfilmmaker doesn’t have a studio sending someone to babysit him on his film and, if he screws the rules up, he doesn’t have the financial resources to recast it...