I agree with you completely...Just to play devil's advocate, I'm going to disagree with both of you!
Ussinners: There isn't a most important part as a director, they are all important. Getting a great acting performance is completely worthless without equal attention to detail in other areas of filmmaking. For example, spending your time getting a good or great performance from the actors is pointless if the performance is later destroyed by ADR or by poor picture editing. A decent performance with good production sound is virtually always going to be preferable to a great performance with ADR.
Sanchez: You've listed all the aspect which are important to you but not all the aspects which are important to be a good director. Pre-production and Production exist solely to provide the raw materials for Post-production, yet in all your "aspects which are important" you haven't mentioned even a single post-production craft!?
The reason most no/micro/lo budget movies go nowhere is not because the acting is sub par or because the atmosphere on set is not positive. The reason generally is that filmmakers concentrate their efforts too much in the areas of filmmaking which they enjoy the most, at the expense of other important areas and thereby end up with weak story telling. The telling of the story is the whole point of the film medium, the story itself, the acting and everything else is subservient to this.
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the list I gave was very generalize, But I completely agree on the post end of the spectrum. Other then being a independent Director my main form of income is being a camera operator and editor /VFX, I again completely agree lol.
I edit my own films, and it was very poorly of me to forget to mention such a important part of being a director, which is watching over such aspects as Sound Mixing, Editing, grading, and if needed VFX. But to get back on topic, like I wanted, did you check out my demo reel and if you did, what did you think.
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