Film director

watching a film would you be able to tell the main theme or focus the director had in mind? Directors use a series of tools to help get their point in the movie across. Developing a way to dissect a movie to find the theme or focus, the directors’ goal, and lastly come to a decision on the film, will aid in appreciating films more. While watching Silence of the Lambs it is pretty easy to find the theme of the movie is to catch Buffalo Bill but, strong character placement in the film steals…

A Glimpse into Psychedelic Films and their Development from 1961-2011 Runtime (48:42) Laura Bluhm Psychedelic films are most widely known for consisting of a series of images in which take on form of each other and provide a distorted reality for the viewer. One of the many intentions of a psychedelic film is to emphasize on the imagery, which is put together as a sequence to disrupt the viewer 's understanding of a normal reality. The films used in this screening focus on and uses surrealism…

Worth John Daniel Singleton was born on the 6th January 1968 in is an American screenwriter, director and producer, most famous for directing “Boyz N The Hood” (1991). This debut film of his made a big success both critically and commercially, which led to John winning the Academy Award nominations for Best Original Screenplay and Best Director. In the following years, Singleton released two more films of a similar social topic: “Poetic Justice” (1993) and “Higher Learning” (1995) which also…

production company “River Film”. River Film creates and develops films, initially specialized in films for the property and development sector, but now they work across a variety of sectors and industries (River Film, 2016) According to the business director (Alastair Young), River Film is a business to business communication with a corporative work structure, which it’s not the type of work that creative consumer driven advertising agencies are looking for when commissioning film production…

The director could be considered the author of a film they make. The French denoted the term auteur for “Hollywood directors who they felt had created a distinctive approach to filmmaking while working within the Hollywood studio system” (33). Americans started picking up the term as well, and then famous directors with certain styles started being known as auteurs. The director’s style crosses over into their films. These are directors like Christopher Nolan, Wes Anderson, Spike Lee, David…

audience by the director George Sluizer. The remake of the original movie was made in 1993 in a Hollywood atmosphere with the names of popular american celebrities such as Sandra Bullock and Kiefer Sutherland. The American remake possesses the same director as in the original movie, George Sluizer. The American remake of the vanishing was intended to fit the needs and expectations of a very high and demanding American crowd. In the remake of the film the director really conveys what type of film…

funding, directors had to find alternate ways to film while working on a very tight budget, which meant non-professional actors, little to no script, and innovative methods of filming (Hitchman). These alternatives to the traditional way of film production are responsible for the The French New Wave’s reputation as an audacious movement based on breaking the rules, not only behind the camera, but within the editing room as well. Professional film editor Walter Murch once said “Every film is a…

The collaboration needed to make a film, much less a quality film, is enormous. Many people are needed to make a production work: screenwriters, cinematographers, composers, etc. The director is one of the most important elements and his or her interpretation of a screenplay can make or break a film. As stated in Persistence of Vision: An Introduction to Film Appreciation, “An auteur is a director that has garnered enough influence that they have total artistic control over the entire…

Steven Spielberg is an American film Director, screenwriter and producer. He was born in 1946 in the United States. He is well known as a public figure, considered a pioneer of Hollywood, and a popular director in the film industry. He directed Hollywood blockbuster films such as Jurassic Park (1993) and Jaws (1975). Spielberg also directed science fiction films such as, A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) and War of the Worlds (2005), (IMDB, 2016). In this analysis, I am going to argue that…

The auteur theory offers a distinct view on films, stating that the movies portray a part of the director and is signed with the spesific qualities of the director. In his essay, “Towards Theory of Film History”, Sarris defends that the auteur theory changed the way film critics valued films. This theory was revolutionary since it brought a whole new set of values against Hollywood filmmaking. In Hollywood, the director is only good as his/her last movie. No movie industry executive will care…