The They Like the Dark journey continues, and this week Mike Pecci is deep in the realities of prepping his first feature film.
Mike talks about one of the hardest parts of directing: watching the movie in your head change as it collides with the realities of production. The ideas started with unlimited imagination, then became storyboards, and now those boards have to survive the real questions. How many days do we have? How much money? How much crew? What scenes have to go? Can three shots become one?
It's heartbreaking, exciting, and all part of making a movie.
Mike also gets into the importance of patience, collaboration, and problem solving, and why having an experienced crew around you completely changes the creative process. Instead of sitting alone endlessly trying to solve a problem, sometimes the answer comes from calling someone on your team whose own life and set experience gives them a solution you never would have discovered alone.
That's the magic of making something with other human beings.
Mike also talks lighting, working with your gaffer, what makes a great lighting team, engaging with your crew, and how a director keeps everyone moving toward the same movie while allowing the film to evolve.
Oh, and Mike breaks his teeth and has to go to the dentist.
It's another jam packed look inside the highs, lows, compromises, discoveries, and insanity of actually making a feature film.
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