You know proper cell phone etiquette, but you don't always practice it. With just a little more effort, you can avoid the evil stares of strangers and save yourself the embarrassment of revealing private details on a quiet bus. Remember to use the environmental settings on your phone, excuse yourself from a conversation if it is necessary to make or take a phone call, and brush up on your cell phone etiquette here.
Those were my results from the cell phone etiquette quiz.
II. The supervisors I've had thus far have always been helpful in explaining things, and if I still had to ask questions about what I was supposed to be doing. However, since I have found myself in places alone on a volunteer message, they would often have to attend to other duties but would trust me to take care of what they wanted done. I valued most of all that they would trust me to work independently. Since that is something I particularly value, trusting the people working with you; as an aspiring screenwriter/director I would have to supervise many, many parts of the filmmaking process. I believe, though, that it's important for the director to trust his or her cast and crew, and vice versa. Especially in artistic career lifestyles, and in the one I want to pursue where you do in fact have to be part of a team (directors don't run around screaming orders for everyone else to take like obedient dogs, gods no...); trust is a very important aspect of the overall journey. You're trusting them to help you transform your film to life, and they're trusting you to trust that they know what they're doing (the cast & crew), but that if you have a problem with the way they're doing something...you will let them know so that everything can run smoothly again. An actor is much more than just someone taking orders on how to carry out their role. They put a part of themselves into the character, and not only does that make for a much more emotionally realistic film that will capture your audience. There have been many moments in our favourite films that may very well have been the actor's idea just to see if doing this-or-that slightly different would alter the scene in a preferable way and make it better, that the director liked so much, it was kept in the final cut of the film. Accidents, too, made on the part by actors (i.e. Eva Green in The Dreamers setting her hair on fire as she accidentally got too close to a candle on the dinner table to kiss Matthew a good-night, but she quickly grabs it with her hand to put it out, and continues with the scene almost effortlessly while Michael Pitt has to improvise a little to include a very concerned "Are you alright?" to Green as Isabelle, to which she replies that she'll be fine, and continues to ask if Matthew will stay with herself and Theo that evening.) sometimes make it onto the final cut of a film, and make that particular scene a little bit more interesting, or exactly what it should be, or maybe even perfect...entirely by accident on their part. It shows that the director trusts them as actors if he or she likes their mistakes or changes to their character.
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