Research: Director

A Director works underneath the Producer in the chain of command on a film production, controlling the actors and crew. They have control of the creative and artistic elements of a production, often being involved in the original writing of the screenplay all the way through to post-production editing. How much a director is involved with a film is often down to the individual directors style, for example: Christopher Nolan and Steven Spielberg often write and produce their films as well as direct them, Clint Eastwood and Mel Gibson regularly appear as characters in their own films, whilst James Cameron and the Coen brothers have been known to take part in cinematography and editing.

"Unlike television where the writer is in charge, in the movie world, the Director is king. The director of a movie is the commander and chief of a set. What he or she says goes everything from the look of the overall picture to the action contained within. They literally direct the movements of the actors, the choices of the shots, the rewrites of the script and the final edits. The director works closely with all major departments to make sure the project has all the elements they need. From the Cinematographer to the Gaffer to the Editor, they all take their direction from the Director"
http://filmtvcareers.about.com/od/basics/p/CP_FilmDirector.htm

The Chase Task

  Our team (me, Harry Ellerd-Cheers, Alex Collins and Glyn Smith), or "Extreme Close Up Productions" quickly decided which roles we wanted for "The Chase" task. I chose to be cameraman, Harry the director and Glyn and Alex the editors/actors.We quickly decided what the premise for our film would be, going down the action/adventure route, taking inspiration from classic chase scenes seen in films from the James Bond series. 

With only an hour to actually film, our planning was brief and, of course, made the actual production much harder to pull off with a high quality. We worked quickly though, and although there were a few problems, we got the large majority of footage that we aimed for. These problems mainly consisted of other people (filming groups and students) getting in the way of our shots and taking up the same locations as we planned. Post-production also went by mostly hitchless, until the video was uploaded, when we discovered black flashes between each cut, too late to change. These flashes take away from the films quality and are, frankly, a little annoying.

The Chase: