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Project evaluation

This unit really showed me that I could never be a director, it's way too stressful and I'm really not the most organised person out there and I think when it came to filming in our previous unit - while directing I wasn't really thinking about the fact that I'm directing and that made me feel under less presure than in this unit. Also I found it hard not to do the camera work myself, eventhough I trusted Lauren who was my DP and I knew that she'll do her best, but for some reason I just feel way better handeling the camera myself (which I had to fight myself not to do at times). I could say that partially I enjoyed this project, it's just that I enjoyed it way more when I was someones DP or a sound person (eventhough i couldn't lift my arms for a week afterwards).
If I could change something about my project, I probably would have started looking for actors a bit sooner, even if I didn't have scheduled everything, it just would have helped if I had some more time to find the actors (not that I'm not happy with actors who ended up acting in my film) maybe that way I would have had a bit less stressful experience with people dropping out. Also, I think it would have really helped if I had looked at the shotlist I made so I wouldn't have missed to film close ups. By the end of the shoot I was confident I had all the shots I needed but once I sat down to edit it I saw that I was missing some of the shots that I thought I really had. I'm not sure if I forgot to get the shots or were they lost somewhere in all of the files, but however I had to deal with what I had and made the best cut that I could at the moment. It's not perfect but it could have been worse.
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