During the course of this month I have been flexing my directing muscles. While I have been doing this in my apartment due to quarantine restrictions, it has not diminished the lessons I have learned. I have had to get my actor into the headspace despite the restrictions put on us. Overall I would say I have been successful.
The next step for me is personal projects. I have been doing smaller things but it is time to actually take my equipment and go out there and create. The safety of school is that you are either given a premise to work on or are given guidelines that guide your decision making. So it is important to take those lessons and use them on your own. So to that end, my next step in mastering directing is to take all my skills and put them through the crucible of real life. I have two projects I am writing to be created and submitted for review from my peers. This will be the first step to my larger journey of mastering my style of directing.
Zach Rudden Filmmaker 