Heightening Emotion

Well I've come to a new realization, while working on one of my projects.
Unfortunately it is a mistake I made. Aside from making a film with too
little dialogue, I will expound on this later... I now see a problem that
had been eluding me for quite some time. The film was good, but for some
reason it felt like a trailer, and it felt a bit, contrived perhaps. But
most importantly it felt FLAT. As soon as I realized this it hit me hard.
The film was flat because of my directing. I directed flatness.

Okay let me explain. Lets say you are doing a scene where someone has just
hijacked another characters car. The victim, then is thrown out in typical
movie fashion and he doesn't do much. He kinda stares back in unbelief as
others approach him to see if he is okay. This is okay direction. I think
this would probably pass however... Lets look at what say Michael Bay would
do (one of my favorate directors, he actually did this in "Bad Boys 2"). He
would have the guy thrown out but the guy would be so ticked off he would
fight the guy and cuss at him, and once he's thrown out he would probably
have him throw the finger. Now this would NEVER happen on a Christian film,
but you get the idea. This then charges the scene more with EMOTION, and
heightens the tension. This is of course easier said than done. Because when
you are filming you are not thinking about this kinda thing, until now!