Direct your own Movie!
Matthew 7:12 “Judge not, that you be
not judged. For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged and
with the measure you use, it will be measured back to you.”
Coffee Hour @ Chicklit Power…
Welcome to Coffee Hour @ Chicklit Power and thanks for coming by.
Since today is the 1st, it’s time for our monthly WOW, which for those
of you who are joining us for the first time, our WOW stands for words
of wisdom and/or weapons of warfare, so grab your coffee and let’s go
get some WOW at the movies!
Five, four, three, two, one, and show time! The film starts to roll
and the credits begin to dance across the screen as the movie begins and
for some reason, there’s always just one director. Have you ever
noticed that? Sure, there may be some assistants, but there’s only one
director in a movie and he or she answers to the producer.
The director is the one who develops the vision for the film and
carries it out through to “The End,” by turning the movie into a
sequence of shots. They work closely with the cast and crew to shape the
film and they also direct what tone it should have and what it is they
want an audience to gain from the movie experience. In addition, they
oversee the cinematography, deciding on all the camera angles, lens
effects and the lighting. They also work closely on the set design, and
they often have a hand in hiring crew members, as well as the writing,
financing and editing of a film, to name just some of what they do.
Just like there are several duties and responsibilities as a
director, there are several styles as well. There are directors like Ben
Affleck who just outline a plot and let the characters improvise. I
don’t know about you, but that feels a bit risky to me.
Or there’s the director who controls EVERY aspect and demands that the
actors and crew follow instructions to the letter, like Alfred
Hitchcock. No thanks!
In the even broader category are the directors who write their own
films, like Woody Allen, George Lucas, Stuart Beattie, and Tyler Perry,
to name just a few. There are literally over a hundred. Incidentally, I
truly enjoy all the movies that have anything to do with Tyler Perry
because they all have a comedic aspect with a moral message!
Other directors collaborate on screenplays with long-term writing
partners. Now that’s sounding like a teachable kind of director, a team
player, too, maybe? And then another style of directing, which we’ve
seen in the not so distant past, is a director who appears in his/her
own movie that they are directing, for example, Clint Eastwood, Mel
Gibson, Kevin Costner, and again, there are oodles more!
So there are lots of duties and several styles of directing, but by
now I’m sure you’re saying, what does any of this have to do with our
monthly WOW? Well, now is the time to try and reel it in here.
Think of your life as the movie. If your life is a movie, then you
are the director, aka, the one who makes the choices and you will answer
to the ultimate Producer. You have a lot of duties every day just to
make it through the day as an asset to society and not a liability.
There are many things that we do that add direction to our lives, many
choices we make as it relates to what we do in our day and how we do it.
For example, we either choose to exercise or not, to clean the house or
not, to do the laundry or not, to cook or not, to serve others or not,
to go to work, or not, do our best to pay our bills, or not, grocery
shop so others in our home can eat, and the list of our directive duties
goes on and on and on, especially if you’re a mom, too!
There are things that we do that create a sort of style of directing
our own life. Before you get out of bed in the morning and begin your
day, you have a conscious choice to start the day grumpy or start it
happily, to meet with your Maker, or not, to add water instead of coal
to a smoldering argument, or not — I’m sure you get the picture, and
pardon the pun.
We have the opportunity and the freedom to direct all these little things that add to some sort of direction in our life.
I’d hate to be termed as an Alfred Hitchcock type of director where I
demand near perfection from all those in my world and yet there are
many of us who direct our lives as such. There’s nothing wrong with the
Ben Afflecks of the world either; it just takes a certain talent to
throw all caution to the wind as he can and does. I think I like the
style of collaborating with others for good advice and getting help when
I need it.
My favorite style of directing is the one where we walk what we talk, analogous to being in our own movie.
Well, I better let you go for now but be sure to come back tomorrow
when I get to the monthly WOW and try and finish this up. In the
meantime, take a few moments to ponder how you direct your life and how
often do you go to The Producer?
Hugs and smiles and sitting in my own chair,
Evinda
