Director recording outside in the morning light (8)
I believe the answer is:
headlamp
'director recording' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both man-made objects as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps you can see an association between them that I don't see?
'outside in the morning light' is the wordplay.
'outside in the morning' becomes 'head' (I can't explain this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'light' becomes 'lamp' (lamp is a kind of light).
'head'+'lamp'='HEADLAMP'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for headlamp that I've seen is " Chief light on car".)