JC Washington
Cinema
Spring 2016
Director Comparative Analysis A notable director, producer, and screenwriter is who John Singleton is. Born in Los Angeles, California, Singleton always had a passion for films. John Singleton was raised by his mother and father in separate households. He was a son of a mortgage broker and a pharmaceutical company sales executive. John Singleton did not have any family influence when it came to wanting to be a director. His interest came about because he attended the Filmic Writing Program at USC after graduating from high school in 1986. Singleton started his career writing scripts and received many awards. He really loved the idea of directing and began to work towards establishing himself as one of the …show more content…
Singleton has been known for directing, producing, and screenwriting many different movies and shows. He is mostly known and recognized for the directing of Boyz n the Hood, a movie based off of inner city drama within South Central Los Angeles. The movie depicted how life was in South Central LA involving fighting, gang related activity, drugs, and much more. He is also known for Baby Boy, released in 2001. Baby Boy was similar with Boyz n the Hood, but not as much drama as it. Baby Boy seemed to show more comedy mixed with drama in Los Angeles as well. There was fighting in Baby Boy, just as most of Singleton’s work involved. Poetic Justice was amongst one of the movies Singleton directed as well, based off a young woman living in Los Angeles as well. Like all of Singleton’s movies, Poetic Justice involved drama with romance mixed into it. However, John has been featured recently for directing one episode of the hit TV show Empire. Typically, majority of his movies and shows had a setting of Los Angeles, California and mostly involved drama, giving viewers something to relate …show more content…
Although he faced critics with very harsh, negative comments during his career, nothing stopped him from doing the things that he loves doing. He tried other genres of productions such as action, however critics felt as if he did not exceed in those as he did in his drama and comedy productions. He has many movies of his that have exceeded their budgets when released, and have received many awards and notable recognition for the things he has produced. As stated before, he provides movies that many people from different races and ethnic groups can relate to. Not only is he able to reach out and touch the youth with his productions, but he can touch people of all ages, no matter if they are young or old. By maintaining and displaying some of the same styles and genres of his work, it’ll be hard for his dedicated audiences to not look forward to future work directed and produced by Singleton. The audiences that have been tuned into his productions have something to look forward to into every production made by him. Singleton has a fan base like no other and that is made by maintaining the constant genres and story structure in each
Cinema
Spring 2016
Director Comparative Analysis A notable director, producer, and screenwriter is who John Singleton is. Born in Los Angeles, California, Singleton always had a passion for films. John Singleton was raised by his mother and father in separate households. He was a son of a mortgage broker and a pharmaceutical company sales executive. John Singleton did not have any family influence when it came to wanting to be a director. His interest came about because he attended the Filmic Writing Program at USC after graduating from high school in 1986. Singleton started his career writing scripts and received many awards. He really loved the idea of directing and began to work towards establishing himself as one of the …show more content…
Singleton has been known for directing, producing, and screenwriting many different movies and shows. He is mostly known and recognized for the directing of Boyz n the Hood, a movie based off of inner city drama within South Central Los Angeles. The movie depicted how life was in South Central LA involving fighting, gang related activity, drugs, and much more. He is also known for Baby Boy, released in 2001. Baby Boy was similar with Boyz n the Hood, but not as much drama as it. Baby Boy seemed to show more comedy mixed with drama in Los Angeles as well. There was fighting in Baby Boy, just as most of Singleton’s work involved. Poetic Justice was amongst one of the movies Singleton directed as well, based off a young woman living in Los Angeles as well. Like all of Singleton’s movies, Poetic Justice involved drama with romance mixed into it. However, John has been featured recently for directing one episode of the hit TV show Empire. Typically, majority of his movies and shows had a setting of Los Angeles, California and mostly involved drama, giving viewers something to relate …show more content…
Although he faced critics with very harsh, negative comments during his career, nothing stopped him from doing the things that he loves doing. He tried other genres of productions such as action, however critics felt as if he did not exceed in those as he did in his drama and comedy productions. He has many movies of his that have exceeded their budgets when released, and have received many awards and notable recognition for the things he has produced. As stated before, he provides movies that many people from different races and ethnic groups can relate to. Not only is he able to reach out and touch the youth with his productions, but he can touch people of all ages, no matter if they are young or old. By maintaining and displaying some of the same styles and genres of his work, it’ll be hard for his dedicated audiences to not look forward to future work directed and produced by Singleton. The audiences that have been tuned into his productions have something to look forward to into every production made by him. Singleton has a fan base like no other and that is made by maintaining the constant genres and story structure in each