Nowadays, video production is often a one-man show. We all know filmmakers and content creators who work on their projects solo from start to finish. However, to me, filmmaking remains a collaborative process, and you cannot create something big and beautiful without involving others. Well, you probably can, but why would you? It’s the exchange with fellow artists that brings so much to the table! Between composers and sound designers, cinematographers and lighting magicians, directors and editors, and so on and so forth. Ideally, every specialist on your crew should be able to share their ideas. That’s when we come to the question of feedback: How to give it correctly, how to ask for it, how to work with it? Let’s tackle it from a filmmaker’s perspective! Some of you might think this is a boring topic. Well, I disagree. Feedback is an essential part of every collaborative process. If you work with creatives, it also becomes a vulnerable one. Every art is subjective; there are no “goods” and “bads,” but we still need to create a film that transports a concrete and cohesive vision in the end. Therefore, we need to know both how to communicate our ideas to the team and how to work with feedback given to us. Giving sandwich feedback I bet everyone knows the term “sandwich” feedback – you hear it in all areas of our work and life so frequently that it has become a cliché. However, there is a reason why this particular...
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