Being Patient

Patience- The best medicine

Managing people is not a very easy task, especially the people who you aren’t in relation with you ‘personally’.For example, if you are a class monitor, can you give the guarantee to make the whole class do what you want the way you want it to be done? At a certain point of time, your temper rules over you when nothing is in control. This is the most challenging part for me. While making a film, there might be a crew of more than 500 people.  The figures sometimes scares me , as preparing the raw material of the film, and making it practically with so many people involved is actually a very big task. 

Being patient is the best cure to this, but how? Well I feel that understanding the point of view of the people who you are dealing with is the best way to make things go smoothly. If your actor is having difficulty acting a particular scene instead of being furious, having patience, and understanding the struggles of him/her will help the coordination even much better. Even sometimes giving your cast his/her time to understand the whole character sketch which he/she will being doing during the whole shoot will avoid making them feel stressful.

 Recently I had read on the internet that films like Iron man 3 and Captain America: The first avenger had a crew of more than 2500 people. Like wow! As a director, it might have been a roller-coaster during the shoots. I was scandalized, but looking at it in the other way it’s always an experience which is very essential to learn, especially for us film makers!!!

 If we aren’t patient with the people who are working with us, then your work will either get delayed, or destroyed. As I had said in my previous post that the skills of a leadership is very important, but having patience will help you even more.  At the end of the day, to get your work done, you have to overcome all these, and you would be the happiest person after you have accomplished that as well. So if in future if you get sick of handling things which is out of control, just remember that patience is the best cure to everything.