Director's profession. All the subtleties of film and television directing

“It’s not difficult for a young director to find a job, it’s difficult to be a director”

Ivetta Urozhaeva graduated from St. Petersburg State University of Cinematography and Theater this year with a degree in directing and already has several successful projects under her belt. Together with other young directors, the girl created the “Not Weak Cinema” project, within the framework of which she presented her short film “Two-Two” to the public. And in the fall of this year, having merged with the Miniature Theater, a completely new program“Cinema + Theater = Theater + Cinema”, which combines short films and theatrical miniatures.

Ivetta Urozhaeva told us about how she came into the profession and the opportunities that are now opening up for young directors.

Why did you choose the profession of director?

For me, this is a profession where I can be as honest as possible with myself. In 9th grade, my friend and I made short fiction films. They filmed, edited, and wrote the scripts themselves. Upon admission, there was always a feeling that this profession would allow you to constantly feel the breath of time, constantly discover new things and expand the boundaries of today.

How did you choose the university and how did you prepare for admission?

I prepared thoroughly for admission. The applicant's brochure said that it would be necessary to perform a fable, a poem and sing. Immediately I rushed to vocal courses to improve my voice. As it turned out later, this was not necessary at all.

I entered documentary film in parallel with fiction at St. Petersburg State University of Cinematography and Television, and also at Kulek (as St. Petersburg State University of Culture and Arts is called in St. Petersburg - author’s note) for fiction, but in last moment The scales tipped towards feature films, especially thanks to the master of the course - S. M. Ovcharov. To this day I don’t regret it at all.

And the competition consisted of writing creative work, an acting competition, a creative colloquium, an interview with a master and an essay on literature. Only those who passed the creative pre-competition were allowed to take the exam - they handed in a folder with scripts, photographs, biography - already at the level of admission to the exam they had to prove themselves.

How did your parents react to your choice of profession? Are they directors too?

My parents are not from the world of cinema, but they fully supported me, although the choice of profession surprised them and seems to continue to surprise them to this day. They didn't expect me to start achieving small victories in this big profession.

How young man understand that he needs to be a director?

How was your internship at the university and what did it give you?

The practice consists of shooting short films - where each student goes through the school of life. Here you are a builder, and a painter - you have to create your own scenery in the pavilion, and a make-up artist, and a costume designer, and a decorator, and a cook, and an administrator, and you also really want to have time to work with the actors and do your own thing - directing, but since everything the team consists only of the same students and one or two who have wandered in professional actors, then it is necessary not to hang your nose and set an example for your team - to be the first everywhere and everywhere, not to be afraid of anything and to overcome all difficulties with a smile. In essence, cinema is a practice; no theory will give such a vivid idea of directing as the practice itself.

Are there many girls studying at the directing department?

There were four female directors in our course; of course, the majority of directors were men. Not every creative girl is ready to endure the physical and mental stress of filming a film and organizing this entire process from start to finish.

What is the director's job on a film?

The director needs to live the film at all stages of its production - from the moment of birth, the idea and until the moment when the projector is turned on for the first time and the first frames of your film appear on the white screen. The director has a certain plan, an idea, sometimes everything is based only on the image, and the director asks the question - what does he want to make a movie about? You need to formulate it specifically, because if you yourself don’t know what it’s about, the team will actively begin to “help.” And suggest, introducing your own amendments and ideas, and this destroys your plan in the bud.

The director lives with the screenwriter for several months and the script is constantly being rewritten and rewritten. At the same time, the director begins to meet with other authors of his film - cameraman, composer, sound engineer, production designer, makeup artist, costume designer, and with each of them finds mutual language, initiate him into your plan, and in all this a team of people creates their own world. The work is very painstaking and detailed, because what better preparation, the better the quality of the shooting itself.

On each project, the process itself is slightly different, but the main one is script writing, preparatory period, filming, post-production - dubbing, noise, film sound design, music writing, color correction, titles, special effects - and there must be a director everywhere. As they say, the director is Columbus, who wants to discover America, and his team wants to go home. The director must keep the fire of enthusiasm alive in everyone and keep the flow of creativity flowing - after all, when the team works as a well-coordinated mechanism, then no one wastes time solving unnecessary problems, and there is more time for creativity.

You have received a higher education as a director, what opportunities are open to you?

Yes, I have a crust on my hands higher education, which gives essentially nothing. You can go to university for 5 years without missing a single lecture, and you will turn out to be a good film theorist, most likely a good film critic. But the people who trust you to make films will not care how many hours you have listened to on the subject of directing, they will only be interested in your experience, experience and more experience, your knowledge of the craft.

During our training, we studied the specifics of documentary film and television, so I believe that we could also shoot documentaries and television projects, if necessary.

The main thing is to understand what you want (money - then everything is simple). Our masters told us that already in the 3rd year we could start filming TV series; we had already been taught everything we needed. We devoted the remaining time to finding our own style, to understanding deeper things related to directing. If before the 3rd year we studied directing as a craft, then after the 3rd year we studied directing as an art.

When do students start working in their profession? Is it difficult to find a job for a young director and can this profession be called paid and promising?

Many students start working while studying, but this is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, by working, you already gain irreplaceable practice and experience, but on the other hand, if this work takes up everything your time, and you cannot attend the master’s classes, you cannot concentrate on your projects, then all this harms you and your teaching. Many students, having learned the basics of the profession, immediately rush into commerce, getting stuck in it up to their ears. Because of this, a person stops at a certain middle interval, which he considers to be the maximum. And in the future, in his work, he only hones his craft skills, and creative development stops. In fact, this is a great temptation and few people like to think that an artist should be hungry, so many give up studying to earn their bread and butter. To the young director It’s not hard to find a job, it’s hard to be a director because no one will let you direct right away feature film. Again, if we talk about money, then you can earn money always and everywhere, the only thing you have to understand is what you are exchanging yourself for, that’s all.

Director- this is a person who produces a film, manages the filming process or rehearsals, if we're talking about about the theater. More precisely, the directors film set some: main director called production director, his closest assistants are simply directors. In both cases, the basis of his work is.

Today, many people dream of becoming directors, because the profession is becoming more and more prestigious. Famous masters their work receive awards and prizes, go on the red carpet, give interviews, communicate with best actors and actresses. However, the director's job was not always like this. At the beginning, at the stage of the emergence of the profession, the director was developing the script, working with the actors, and managing the filming process. But times have changed and imposed more and more new responsibilities that make the profession interesting and difficult at the same time.

What does a director do?

Now, in order to become successful in his business, a director must have a keen sense of quality ideas, amazing scripts, the timing of the film’s release, and the needs of the public. He looks for funds, interests investors and producers, selects actors and film crew, manages the process of creating and editing the film. There are gradually becoming fewer and fewer barriers and restrictions as the range of director's responsibilities grows.

Domestic specialists differ in many ways from Western ones, since Hollywood directors do not recognize those who put themselves above the rest. Therefore, they do the maximum amount of work, making every effort to ensure that the picture is of high quality and successful.

After their first success, domestic directors often become arrogant and refuse to fulfill certain duties, as a result of which they quickly lose popularity. Only a select few workaholics and true talents are still interesting to viewers.

Working rights and responsibilities of the director

The director's responsibilities include coordinating the entire process of making a film, so it is he who receives awards or suffers complete collapse if his film fails. The director’s work requires complete dedication, since the specialist not only carefully selects the script, adapts it to his vision and attitude, that is, creates, selects the optimal cast, which will be the ideal embodiment of certain images, and finds an approach to each of them.

After the end of the filming process, the director’s work does not end, since he is obliged to control the editing, sound and special effects. The latter often play decisive role in the quality and popularity of the picture. Only after all the work has been completed and the film has been released can the director consider his work completed and expect praise or criticism from specialists and ordinary viewers.

Typical job description The director's agreement includes rights and obligations; usually it also contains a clause on the responsibilities of the parties to the contract. TO job responsibilities theater director, for example, include developing a repertoire, staging performances, organizing academic work. Drawing up cost estimates and revenue plans Money also often assigned to the director.

In general, the functions of a director represent a set of responsibilities of a good manager, and directing as a profession implies appropriate thinking and excellent organizational skills.

Concept and implementation

Concept and implementation are the two pillars on which modern directing stands. Many directors describe their ideas in great detail; some, on the contrary, believe that improvisation is the main trump card of practical directing. Of course, it is foolish to underestimate the importance preparatory stage, however, the history of directing says that the most important working moments still take place on the set. It could be theater stage or a filming pavilion. Undoubtedly, without actors it would be impossible to realize all the richness of the director's imagination.

The main functions of a director include working with actors. Of course, ideally, the creative understanding of the director and actors should completely coincide. However, in practice, one can more often observe a situation where they either strive to meet each other halfway, or what the director does cannot be called anything other than the active imposition of the only correct point of view.

Sometimes even eminent masters do not consider it necessary to hear the opinion of the executor of his “most serene” will. But what the director does is create characters. It cannot be carried out without bypassing the soul and creative potential actor.

In accordance with classical principles Directing distinguishes the following components of the plan (the basics of directing):

creative interpretation of the script;
description of characters;
identification of features acting;
rhythms and tempos in the temporal aspect of the work;
spatial solution (the so-called directing space);
decorative and sound design.

In conclusion, it should be noted that timely and thorough performance of the duties of a director will make a true master out of a diligent beginner.

In cinematography and theatre, the leading role is given not to actors or producers, but to directors. It is he who is responsible for final result, and it is in relation to him that the highest demands are made.

Last years domestic cinema is undergoing a revival. The society is regularly presented with new films that can rightly be considered masterpieces of the film industry. Due to this, the demand for people is increasing creative specialties who will be able to maintain the achieved level and continue the development of art.

In cinematography and theatre, the leading role is given not to actors or producers, but to directors. It is he who is entrusted with responsibility for the final result, and it is in relation to him that the highest demands are made.

Who is the director?

– a specialist who manages a set of key processes on film sets, stages, circus arenas and other theatrical and concert events. He interprets the script and has a complete understanding of how a particular scene needs to be played to make the plot look as realistic as possible.

The profession of director arose relatively recently - at the end of the 19th century. Of course, the need for people coordinating actors and working on staging performances has appeared in more early period, namely during the formation of the theater. However, at that time theater troupes mostly made do on our own, therefore the number of such specialists was limited.

The idea of directing in its modern presentation belongs to the German and French theater - it consists in the formation of an ensemble and the subordination of the entire performance to a single concept.

Emergence and rapid cinema development caused not only an increase in the popularity of the profession, but also the range of responsibilities assigned to directors, which would be quite difficult for one person to cope with. This determined the need to highlight narrower areas:

The production director is an experienced professional who heads the entire team and is responsible for the result of its work. He selects actors, corrects their performance, and makes amendments to the script.
The director has the second most important level after the production director and, in fact, is his assistant, who learns from him and gains experience. He is involved in major projects and is given responsibility for selecting extras and filming minor scenes.
An assistant director is the lowest level of the profession and at the same time a good start for career growth. Despite the fact that he is “in the wings” and does not perform any important functions, many graduates of educational institutions begin their activities in this position.
The sound engineer is improving the quality of voices. He expresses his expert opinion on what exactly needs to be said and with what intonation so that the sound matches the picture as closely as possible and evokes certain emotions in the audience.
The editing director is an expert who combines individual episodes into a single, complete picture. In his work, he is guided by the recommendations of the chief director and works with him, selecting best scenes from the footage.

A theater director has a completely different specificity of work. Theater productions require special training and skills. The acting, the script, the scenery - everything must be built flawlessly, since in the theater the director will not have the opportunity to shoot another take that the audience will like.

Depending on the type of specialization, the main responsibilities of the director may vary, but the most important aspects work includes:

interaction with screenwriters, producers and other participants in the process;
distribution of roles, control and staging of actors' performances;
lighting adjustments;
viewing the footage and highlighting the best shots;
making changes to the script;
instructions regarding appearance actors;
resolving controversial situations and maintaining an appropriate work environment, etc.

It should be noted that directors are unique specialists. Often they can combine work with related professions and act as producers, screenwriters, and actors. In this case, the range of their responsibilities expands significantly.

What personal qualities should a director have?

To unleash their creative potential and achieve success in their careers, directors have to work hard and put in a lot of effort. Therefore, it is very important for them to be purposeful, hardworking, strong in spirit people.

As in others creative professions, in their activities they must be creative and have a broad outlook.
High level intellectual development, erudition and creative thinking are constant companions in the work of directors.
Curiosity and a desire for self-development are required to increase experience and better understanding professions.
Since people of this profession have under their command a large number of employees, they must have leadership qualities and be sociable.
Ability to organize work and find compromise solutions problematic situations– the key to a favorable atmosphere in the workplace.
Objectivity and observation will also come in handy creative path, which will allow you to give a correct assessment of what is happening and choose the right direction.

Advantages of being a director

The director gets great pleasure from the opportunity to self-realize and bring his ideas to life, which, if successful, will be recognized by the public, and he will gain popularity and recognition.

Specialists high level don’t need to look for work – she finds them herself. Majority famous directors are in great demand and receive big fees, the amount of which is usually not disclosed. Naturally, the level of their salary directly depends on the scale of the projects, but, basically, they can independently set the amount of remuneration for their work.

The profession is very exciting due to the fact that directors travel very often and participate in various events. In addition to the opportunity to see the world, an equally attractive aspect of the job is getting to know famous people and making connections that will undoubtedly bring great benefits.

Disadvantages of being a director

The main disadvantages of the profession include the low probability that a specialist will be able to achieve success in his career. For beginning directors it's quite difficult. Lack of experience and a recognizable “name” often means lack of work. A significant portion of sponsors choose only famous personalities who will certainly be able to create a masterpiece. Of course, you can start your career by working on small projects, but in this case you won’t have to count on a substantial reward. And there are no guarantees that in the future you will be able to get into the major leagues.

The director is not only entertainment and loud parties in honor of the premiere, but also hard work. This work most often does not provide for a standardized schedule and scheduled vacation. It is not uncommon for directors to work late into the night or around the clock until they achieve the desired result.

Very often directors experience stress and are in a state of increased psycho-emotional stress, which can have an extremely negative impact on their health. Also, do not forget that the main share of success in creative profession associated with inspiration. Depression, apathy and stress are unlikely to lead to the creation of something worth attention.

Where can I get a job as a director?

It is impossible to master the profession of a director on your own or with the help of special courses. Although studying the basic principles of directing self-education will not bring harm; you can become a real specialist only by receiving an appropriate higher education.

Today, in most Russian cities there is at least one university that trains directors. Many universities are for-profit, but there are also plenty of state universities where you can get this profession. All educational institutions offer training primarily on a paid basis, with a minimum number of budget places, and it is very difficult to enroll in them. Applicants are selected according to strict criteria, the main one of which, however, remains talent.

Future employment largely depends on the choice of university, since in this profession the prestige of the university does not play a role. last role. The most popular among employers educational institutions relate:

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Director- this is the person who produces the film, manages the filming process or rehearsals, if we are talking about the theater. More precisely, directors on the set some: the main director is called production director, his closest assistants are simply directors. In both cases, the basis of his work is.

Today, many people dream of becoming directors, because the profession is becoming more and more prestigious. Famous masters of their craft receive awards and bonuses, walk on the red carpet, give interviews, and communicate with the best actors and actresses. However, the director's job was not always like this. At the beginning, at the stage of the emergence of the profession, the director was developing the script, working with the actors, and managing the filming process. But times have changed and imposed more and more new responsibilities that make the profession interesting and difficult at the same time.

What does a director do?

Now, in order to become successful in his business, a director must have a keen sense of quality ideas, amazing scripts, the timing of the film’s release, and the needs of the public. He looks for funds, interests investors and producers, selects actors and crew, and manages the process of creating and editing the film. There are gradually becoming fewer and fewer barriers and restrictions as the range of director's responsibilities grows.

Working rights and responsibilities of the director

After the end of the filming process, the director’s work does not end, since he is obliged to control the editing, sound and special effects. The latter often play a decisive role in the quality and popularity of the picture. Only after all the work has been completed and the film has been released can the director consider his work completed and expect praise or criticism from specialists and ordinary viewers.

A typical director's job description includes rights and responsibilities, and usually also contains a clause on the responsibilities of the parties to the contract. The job responsibilities of a theater director, for example, include developing a repertoire, staging performances, and organizing educational work. Drawing up cost estimates and a cash flow plan is also often entrusted to the director.

In general, the functions of a director represent a set of responsibilities of a good manager, and directing as a profession implies appropriate thinking and excellent organizational skills.

Concept and implementation

Concept and implementation are the two pillars on which modern directing stands. Many directors describe their ideas in great detail; some, on the contrary, believe that improvisation is the main trump card of practical directing. Of course, it is foolish to underestimate the importance of the preparatory stage, but the history of directing says that the most important working moments still take place on the set. This could be a theater stage or a film studio. Undoubtedly, without actors it would be impossible to realize all the richness of the director's imagination.

In accordance with the classical principles of directing, the following components of the plan (the basics of directing) are distinguished:

creative interpretation of the script;
description of characters;
determining the features of acting;
rhythms and tempos in the temporal aspect of the work;
spatial solution (the so-called directing space);
decorative and sound design.

In conclusion, it should be noted that timely and thorough performance of the duties of a director will make a true master out of a diligent beginner.

Directing is a kind of creative activity, with the help of which cinematography is created, theatrical action and variety numbers. Directing complex look activity, but very interesting. At the heart of the connection between the actor and the main author is the director. He plays the role of a “translator,” interpreting the author’s work in his own way, translating it into the language of cinema or performance.

The word director is translated as “manager.” The profession of director fulfills an important mission in art. This creative person, director and organizer of the production of a cinematic or entertainment concept. The director creates from the script new reality, involving participants creative process: cast, artists, costume designers, composer.

The director's work includes:

Administrator. The director-administrator stages performances, monitors order and the completion of assigned tasks.
The director. This includes working with the actor, set designer, costume designer and other workers;
Writer. Monitors the performance of the performance along the intended literary trajectory.
Artist. The director/artist creates his own original artistic combination of the play;
Teachers. The director is also a teacher who mentors, trains, and educates actors.

In the time of Stanislavsky K.S., directing looked different, not like it does now. Performances in the theater took place independently, the actor performed his performance without outside interference, as he understood the role and performed it. The director's job was only to distribute roles, arrange and move characters on stage. He couldn’t afford more, leaving everything to the actor’s discretion.

It was Stanislavsky K.S. who made a huge contribution to the development of directing as a profession and defined its functions:

studying and understanding the performance;
finding the desired spectacular effect;
subordination of the filming participants to the director's plan.

A necessary stage in the formation of a fruitful working atmosphere consists of the interaction between the director and the actor. Ideally, the relationship between the participants in the filming process should be trusting and friendly, but this does not always work out that way. Much depends on the attitude of management towards subordinates. Directors try to attract actors with whom they like and feel comfortable working. The atmosphere on the set and the established relationships between the participants in the shooting influence the final result of the work.

Expressive means of directing include:

Acting art.

Acting is the art of creating characters, an attempt to express life on stage in front of an audience or on a television screen. The purpose of his work is to influence the audience and get a reaction. Each time an actor transforms into a different person for a performance, his performance must be emotional and natural.

Mise-en-scene.

Mise-en-scène is the placement of actors on stage during a performance. She important component director's creativity and intention. The direction of the style and genre of the performance depends on the location of the mise-en-scene. The actor's performance must correspond to it.

The mise-en-scène meets a number of requirements:

Convey the expressive content of a scene or episode, focus attention on the actor’s performance, and capture the director’s intent.
Take into account the relationships on stage, conflict, internal experiences and emotions of the characters.
Contain stage expressiveness, naturalness,

realism.

TempoRhythm

Tempo rhythm consists of tempo speed and rhythm frequency. The concept of tempo-rhythm, as an expressive means of directing, was introduced into use by K. S. Stanislavsky. It is usually divided into external and internal.

Tempo is a part of the rhythm that characterizes its pattern. Rhythm is the link between movement and stops in time, a rhythmic alternation of movements, sound, and feelings.

Tempo, like other means of directing, helps to realize the director's vision through acting. They are closely related to each other and complement each other. A correctly selected tempo evokes reciprocal emotions and feelings in the audience.

Atmosphere.

The atmosphere in directing serves as the habitat of the image. It consists of rhythm, sounds, lighting, etc. The atmosphere on stage comes from the action happening in front of the audience, location, time. It consists of expressive means and is created by the main event on stage.

Event series

Any work of art includes an event. An event is an act of a character or an action that is filled with meaning and has emotional coloring and gradually flow into a series of events. The sequence of events is necessary for a laconic, interesting structure of the work; it includes the struggle of characters and a chain of actions.

The event series is divided into the following stages:

Origin Event begins with a conflict in which the characters are involved and includes features of the stylistic author's text.
The main event develops along with the action of the composition, has an extraordinary character and includes elements of events that develop conflict to maintain tension among the audience.
The central event carries a central position that can change the course of the conflict and the outcome of the work. The exact central event is found main idea and the concept of the genre. Then it is replaced with the main one.
The main event is a denouement that contains and reveals the director's intention. This is where the tasks at hand are solved and the genre of the work is determined.
In the final stage, the results of the work and the assigned tasks are summed up.

Director's idea

Directing involves combining creative elements into one whole to create something interesting. whole work. This result is achieved with the help of the director's intention. The director's vision is a necessary part of the project and consists of the following elements:

Subject.

Determining the theme of a work is one of the main tasks in a director’s work. Finding it helps determine artistic image and reproduction in directing. The found topic must answer the question: “About what?”

There is never just one theme; each character carries his own thought and part of the game. Only the main theme consists of the components and elements of the work and determines the idea. It also happens that the director does not define the theme, but this is a rare occurrence. main topic represents a problem, a struggle between the characters, an object in the work with the help of which the further unfolding of events occurs.

Idea.

The idea carries main idea work of art, what it was written for. Only by grasping the idea of the work does the director understand the meaning of the film. The idea in directing is emotional and not related to morality. The theme carries only specifics in the work, the idea is like a bright living reality. It is a subjective side - an objective topic. An idea is the author’s final thought about a work.

Super task.

The ultimate goal in a director’s work is main role, attracts and combines other tasks. The super task gives the answer to the question: “For what?” She invites the viewer with an idea. The ultimate goal is the director’s point of view on the work, the concept and the main goal.

Actions in the play, acting, other secondary purposes and creative ideas, everyone strives to achieve it. Everything in directing is interconnected with her and depends on her. Any element of creativity looks superfluous and inappropriate if the ultimate task is not connected with it.

The super task must complement the author’s ideas, achieve feedback from the viewer and evoke living, rather than formal, feelings and emotions. But, on the other hand, it represents a kind of director’s secret that must be correctly guessed and interpreted.

In directing, the idea and the ultimate goal contain the same goal; the difference lies in the terminology. For literary works the idea is used, and for directing there is a super task. The super task cannot be played; it only highlights the character of the act.

Director's analysis of the play "At the Lower Depths"

As an example, consider the director's analysis of M. Gorky's play “At the Depths”.

The initial event is that the main characters, having lost their home, find themselves in a shelter, in which the main actions of the play “At the Bottom” take place.
The main event is the appearance of Luke, which raises hope in the hearts of the slum dwellers for better life.
The central point is the death of Anna, for whom Luke predicted salvation and peace after death. Next, there is a conflict between the main characters, which turns into the main event - a fight and the disappearance of Luke.
The final event of the play “At the Bottom” is Satin’s suicide.
The author’s ultimate task is manifested in the struggle between faith and unbelief of the main characters. In the play “At the Bottom,” Maxim Gorky tried to convey to the audience his main idea of the work - what a person believes in is what he will receive in the end.

Script basics of directing. The concept of explication

The screenplay in directing appears strictly after the theme and idea are determined. Script and director's fundamentals are the connecting link between the elements of the script and lead to the definition of the super task.

The scenario move has the following types:

Chronology. Maintaining the plot sequence as in real life.
Retrospective. The plot is built in reverse order, from end to beginning.
Plot. The work is built on the basis of a well-known plot concept.
A game. The game is used as the main development of the plot.
Imagery. The use of one concept consisting of several meanings.
Object play or transformation of a thing. The play of a versatile image or object is used.

In directing there is also the concept of explication. It's making a plan future work director. It is created in free form and has an individual character. The explication describes the director’s thoughts about the play, the actors’ performances, detailed plan mise-en-scène, style and genre of the performance.

The explication provides answers to the questions: “What am I betting?” and “How do I place it?” The director expresses emotions and feelings about the work on paper. Expresses thoughts competently and simply. The further achievement of your goals depends on a correctly written explication.

Director's idea of a variety act

The director's contribution to the script of the performance varies and depends on the genre of the work. The production of a performance in a speech genre, based on a song or verse, begins with a musical or original text. Very often the director does not stop at developing the text or musical material, written by the author, and he himself creates the scripts.

The director can and does work on the text together with the author, then he will be called a co-author. This option is most often used in writing scenes of the speech genre. And dramatic, vocal, variety, and circus acts are created mainly by the director. When working on dramaturgy and implementing his plan, the director will put his ideas in the foreground and only then the individuality of the actor.

Pop genre numbers are usually divided into following types:

A genre containing an author's origin. This includes a speech genre and a song containing text and musical accompaniment.
Genre, without author's text. This variety dancing, in which the presence of text is not expected.

Numbers based on the speech genre assume the presence of a director's technique and decisions that come from the author's text. From its contents the director answers the question: “What happened?”

Directing Documentary Film and Television

Film and television directing has gained great popularity around the world. The interest of viewers in a television program depends on the quality of the picture and a correctly constructed plot. The director is responsible for the manner and presentation of the material, its varieties, volumes and plot. Only he determines the audience for television, as well as when and how they will receive the footage.

Directing television differs from film in the length of the work. The peculiarities of cinema are that it takes more time, it requires analysis and inventing additional details during work. All that is required from the director is speed and accuracy.

Directing for film and television involves experimentation and improvisation, but only when necessary. The director is entrusted with big hopes, he must be able to unite all the people present on the set.

Qualities that a film and television director should have:

work experience and originality;
ability to search for new things, openness to experiments;
communication skills;
be prepared to travel;
be able to suppress conflicts and resolve disputes.

Documentary filmmaking looks more complex and multifaceted. The presence of a script and actors is not necessary here. Documentary films are created by life. The director of such a movie must be able to highlight the amazing things that are around us, touch upon and reveal in the plot pressing issues that will evoke strong emotions in the viewer.

Directing mass performances

Directing mass performances consists of working with a large number of actors, scenes and largely depends on the organizational abilities and foresight of the director. To obtain audience approval, directing performances and celebrations requires rapid development events on stage, interesting dynamics of action in the performance.

This type of work is focused only on the viewer, so it tries to please and like it. A fastidious spectator at a festival or in a theater requires, in addition to the spectacle, tension when watching. A boring and monotonous number will not arouse even a drop of attention from him. Therefore, the director of mass performances needs to show all his talent and experience every time.

Directing theatrical performances and celebrations requires the following director skills:

pedagogical and organizational skills, people management;
know the technology of the production process (sound, lighting, graphics);
master acting skills, methods of analyzing works;
possess installation skills;
write a script and build a performance or concert on its basis.

For high-quality direction of a theatrical performance, the scale of the performance and the presence of a strong idea are necessary. The success of the entire event depends on it.

Directing in pedagogy

In addition to actors and directors, works on acting and the basics of directing are also studied by teachers, politicians, legal professionals, as well as all people whose profession requires them to know the peculiarities of communication and interpersonal relationships. This knowledge will be especially useful for teachers to conduct lessons in the best possible way. The teacher should know psychological characteristics children, periodically check the intellectual abilities, attentiveness, memory, concentration of their students.

In order for the lesson to be as productive as possible, the teacher must observe and put into practice the following rules:

adhere to a psychological regime;
know the basics of psychology;
be able to notice the mood and experiences of students by facial expressions;
be able to attract attention;
know the rules of explication;
be able to arouse interest in the topic during the lesson.

The main aspect of any creative work is proper time management and maintaining a work plan. Therefore, teachers must take such moments into account and fit into the time allotted for the lesson. If this does not happen, the director-pedagogical system and action plan should be changed.

A lesson is the same performance, only slightly modified, the teacher acts as a director, directing the process, drawing up a plan of action and explication of the lesson.

From scientific literature teachers for lessons and knowledge improvement acting The books of Ershov A.P., Bukatov V.M. “Directing a lesson, communication and behavior of a teacher” and “Directing as practical psychology» Ershova P. M. And also “Fundamentals of Directing” Karp V. I.

The book “Directing as Practical Psychology” serves as a translation of specialized literature on directing into simple language. Using directing and acting ideas will help teachers increase students' interest and attention during class.

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