Hi folks
I'm in a sticky situation. My current project is up in flames and one of the main causes is me and my DP's relationship. He came to me two days before the first shoot and told me he hasnt been happy with his level of creative control and as a result he doesn't care about the film, and hasn't for the past 2 months of pre-production. It's been like pulling teeth trying to sort stuff with him and now I know why.
I gave him oppurtunities to come up with shot ideas and storyboard the film and he didn't take them, but I'm definitely to blame as well. I'm a writer/director and my scripts are what you'd call 'writers films', as in there's not much room to interpret whats happening visually, its quite detailed on the page. When I write the scripts I think of the visuals, I can't help that, and then I write the script around that. So basically my DP wanted more say over whats actually happening in the film, but I have such specific ideas written into the script that its hard for him to express himself creatively.
SO for future projects, how do I toe this line? Is my script just the bones that I should let the DP completely visualise and storyboard or is it reasonable for me to have the whole film and shots sorted in my head? What I've done is, visualise the whole film, storyboard it and then give that to the DP, but he hasn't been happy about that. One other issue is my DP is quite lazy and I simply wouldn't trust him to visualise the whole film, but for future DP's I work with, I want to understand my role and when I'm overstepping it. Any help would be much obliged
Thanks for reading!
I'm in a sticky situation. My current project is up in flames and one of the main causes is me and my DP's relationship. He came to me two days before the first shoot and told me he hasnt been happy with his level of creative control and as a result he doesn't care about the film, and hasn't for the past 2 months of pre-production. It's been like pulling teeth trying to sort stuff with him and now I know why.
I gave him oppurtunities to come up with shot ideas and storyboard the film and he didn't take them, but I'm definitely to blame as well. I'm a writer/director and my scripts are what you'd call 'writers films', as in there's not much room to interpret whats happening visually, its quite detailed on the page. When I write the scripts I think of the visuals, I can't help that, and then I write the script around that. So basically my DP wanted more say over whats actually happening in the film, but I have such specific ideas written into the script that its hard for him to express himself creatively.
SO for future projects, how do I toe this line? Is my script just the bones that I should let the DP completely visualise and storyboard or is it reasonable for me to have the whole film and shots sorted in my head? What I've done is, visualise the whole film, storyboard it and then give that to the DP, but he hasn't been happy about that. One other issue is my DP is quite lazy and I simply wouldn't trust him to visualise the whole film, but for future DP's I work with, I want to understand my role and when I'm overstepping it. Any help would be much obliged
Thanks for reading!