Director KV Anand had some solid advice in an interview with director Aishwarya Dhanush’s new initiative Ten Entertainment. We’ve put together the top 10 tips.
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- Inspiration for a story comes from observation. Read more books, watch movies, travel. Study people, places and any characters you come across. Be it in books or newspapers.
- Learn from good movies and unlearn from bad ones.
- Try to enrol in a film institute. Find a way to spend at least 10 hours with like-minded people.
- I usually work with six to seven assistant directors in my films. A basic pre-requisite is to approach me with a proper resume. Don’t photocopy what you’d give an IT organization.
- Know the native language of the industry.
- Acting is never an easy task. Try it if you’re confident. Otherwise, enrol in a theatre group and hone your skills till you are.
- Imagine that your audience is more intelligent than you.
- Few directors develop a story revolving around a character or an incident. Develop a story around an issue or a central conflict. Ask many questions, and research every detail of the plot. Don’t mess up your story because you didn’t research enough.
- A template for all your stories doesn’t work. It becomes clichéd after the second film.
- Keep the audience in mind when working on a script. Script detailing can be perfected when a filmmakers keeps their audience in mind. Sometimes, external constraints such as money can play a vital role.
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