
Discover how the assistant director links director and crew, manages pre-production tasks like script breakdown and schedules, runs the set, and ensures safety while keeping the production on schedule.
Explore the sub-roles of the assistant director, from the first and second assistant directors to the third, and learn how script breakdowns, call sheets, schedules, and storyboards organize production.
Learn the language of the assistant director, from safety meetings and blocking to camera rehearsals, last looks, and quiet on set.
Learn to lead, communicate, and organize on set as an ad, coordinating with the director and DP, managing time, schedules, and conflicts across departments.
This filmmaking course introduces you to the Assistant Director role in Film Production. It helps you understand and learn about the Assistant Director in film. You'll be learning about the various sub-roles of the Assistant Director and their duties. It teaches and explains the skills an Assistant Director should possess in order to run a film set effectively. It teaches you the duties of an Assistant Director and how to become one. It shows you how to do a page count for a script. It teaches you how to break-down a script and the various elements involved in a script breakdown. It teaches you how to create a shooting schedule and the information a shooting schedule should give. It teaches you how to do a script breakdown without a software. It also tells you some softwares to use for script breakdowns and scheduling. It shows you what breakdown sheet looks like. In this course you'll also be learning the language of an A.D, when and how to use them. You'll be learning about the duties of an A.D during pre-production and production. A newbie filmmaker will be able to begin a journey as an Assistant Director. A filmmaker trying to refresh their memory will be able to do so. A filmmaker trying to become an A.D will learn the basics of how to become one.