1. Watch this clip of a typical Hollywood director in action
2. What does a film director do?
– what’s his or her role?
- He is the decider of everything
- Tells the actors what to do
- He gives the shape to the film
- Creates the sujet
- He works directly with the cast.
- He decides the genre
What does he NOT do?
- He doesn’t writes doesn’t film or does the sound
- He doesn’t makes the makeup
3. From what you’ve learned about the film-making process so far from class work and the practical activity -- What’s your view of the film-making process and the role of the director?
He is the most modern (up to date) worker in the process of the film maker but at the same time he is the more lazy of them all. He is the most sublime person as well. At the end the audience will identify and put all down to the intelligence and creativity of the director.
4. Read the quote by renowned American film critic Andrew Sarris on the screen:
5. What does this quote say about the role of the director? And what does it say about the industry in which he works?
6. So how important is the director and why? Let’s look at some examples:
(20-minute task) Split into groups of three to look at three of the directors we have looked at so far: Alfred Hitchcock (North by NorthWest, Psycho), Quentin Tarrantino (Pulp Fiction), Steven Spielberg (Jaws, Jurassic Park
Answer the following questions in your group:
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What is distinctive about this director? – What raises him or her above the crowd?
Discuss in relation to:
Mise en scene and Mise-en-shot
Key structures of narrative (cause/effect logic, key narrative devices, ordering of events)
Narration (omniscient/restricted, voice-overs)
Themes (subject matter)
Dialogue
Sound (diagetic and non-diagetic)
Any other distinctive qualities in their films
What are your conclusions?
What makes this director special?
- He is known as the master of the sounds and effects. He is really interested in the unknown and his films are really uses emotions to get the audience really emotional usually sad emotions through the relationship connections he introduces in his movies.
How would you relate the role of the director to people working in other areas of the visual arts, literature or music?
He has to have the final decision and the final check of all of the areas. He has to decide and criticize his own decisions and has to make sure everything fixes and have different meanings to play with the audience minds. He also changes something of the script so that they fix in with the actors he has so that the audience can relate the different personalities, also he might change the language depending on the historical context he is doing the movie on. And in general all of the areas need to change depending on the genre the director decides to do. He main audience group is really big, he is very popular with the people
7. In Europe in the 1950s– some film critics came up with a word to describe this ‘special’-type of director:
They called him or her an (fill in the word here)
This is the title that some FRENCH film critics led by Francois Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard in the 1950s started to use to label certain film directors including Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles (Citizen Kane).
It became known as “(fill in 2 words here)”.
Definition: (Auteur policy) assigns a director the title of artist rather than technician. Auteur critics study the (style) and (themes) of a director’s films and assign them status of artist or auteur – if they show (consistency) of style and theme.
Those who don’t show these qualities are called (metteurs-on-scenes) and are seen as technicians not artists.
8. What are auteur critics saying is the role of the auteur/director in a film?
What areas of the film-making process is he responsible for according to the auteur policy?
It is a very important person which is above of all the others. He is the final decision maker. They make the key choices they decide how everything (all the areas) are visualized in the film.
KEY QUOTE: “The auteur policy values the personality of a director precisely because of the barriers to its expression. It is as if a few brave spirits had managed to overcome the gravitational pull of the mass of movies.” (American Cinema)
Example of an auteur?
Andrew Sarris – American film critic. Responsible of bringing the idea of the auteur from france
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