CDP438 Entry #01

To put it succinctly, it feels as if a director is like the conductor to an orchestra. There are so many elements one has to coordinate just to reconstruct a story from scratch. The 6 basic questions of who, what, where, when, why, how are the basic needs a director has to address.

I will be working with Sofia and Ziting to recreate scene 3 and scene 4 of Charged. The first thing that came to mind was how we were going to double up the roles with more characters than actors. To me that is an issue that can be solved with some experimenting and logistical planning. The deeper issue for me was, from an artistic standpoint, how as a director, will I able to create convincing NSFs out of these two girls who has never been through National Service.

The challenge for a director seems to be how he is able to communicate the exact motivations he wants for the actors to portray in their characters, all this despite the disparity in their experiences (me having been through NS, and the girls not knowing what it is like). Our group will be meeting before class on Friday to decide how we will answer the 6 questions.