Introduction
Directors demand their films to be felt. What’s the point of creating a film if it doesn’t invoke thought or feelings? Hence the discussion of filmmaking and the important role the director has in executing a film as a body of work and or art form. However, one has to ask, how did directors and film execution begin?
1829 was the year of inspiration in reference to illusion and or motion. The first ever phenakistiscope or phenakitiscope was created to portray a moving picture which some called an optical illusion. This invention was created by Joseph Antoine Ferdinand Plateau and the small toy seemed to create motion and that’s where motion pictures begin
However, directing and filmmaking began as a bet. In 1878, Englishman
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Many were just a few seconds long. The earliest movies created for entertainment were just a few minutes long.
My Interest in Filmmaking and Directors
My outlook on filmmaking and the role of a director have changed. I used think there wasn’t much that went into making a film or being a director. However, the skill level to execute a film as well as direct it is very complicated. So, throughout this paper I will be discussing the different aspects of filmmaking which the director personally oversees. Also, the history of motion pictures, the early filmmaking experience, the history behind the first female director, music & film, actors/actresses, scene selection, pre-production, creative vision, production, scheduling and post –production.
The History of Motion Pictures
The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope. The Frenchman Louis Lumiere is often credited as inventing the first motion picture camera in 1895. But in truth, several others had made similar inventions around the same time as Lumiere. What Lumiere invented was a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit and projector called the Cinematographe, three functions covered in one invention.
The Cinematographe made motion pictures
With any successful business, the boss and management play a very essential part when coordinating a specific task. In a film, the director plays the same role and holds just as much importance. The director is in charge of making “crucial decisions about performance, staging, lighting, framing, cutting, and sound” (Bordwell). At some point during the 1950’s, the French brought forth the term auteur for those directors at the time in Hollywood which they felt had a unique approach to film.
Film has been a prominent topic in society since its conception. One of the most important physical areas of film creation is located in Hollywood, California. Hollywood has produced some of the most recognizable directors and film creators. Walter Elias Disney is one major example of this. He is still extremely well known because of the vast business he created that is still thriving today. Many people have argued that his career fits within either the classical auteur theory or the structuralist auteur theory, but no argument has been as strong as the one that supports Disney’s career as the commercial auteur theory. The fact that Walt Disney’s work was very much affected by elements outside of his films shows that his career fits within the commercial, or consumer, auteur film theory.
Animation started in 1831 with the creation of the phenakistoscope by Joseph Antoine Plateau and Simon Rittrer. This was a rotating disk with drawings in the inside of another disk, which gave the illusion of movement.
The birth of film began in 1872, when Leland Stanford bet a friend that a horse lifts all four of its legs off the ground when running. To settle the disagreement, Stanford employed photographer Eadweard Muybridge to take pictures. After settling the debate, Muybridge developed the first primitive cinema that he called “zoöpraxiscope”. The first films lasted only about a minute long, were black and white, and had no entertainment
Discuss the origins and main developments of auteur theory then examine the works of Howard Hawks and Martin Scorsese with relevance to their status as auteur directors.
Animation had been around for a short while but was not used as a large filming technique. It was only used in short sequences and had not been fully developed. phenakistoscope is an early example of animation, show below the device spins around to create a moving picture ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animation During 1910 many short animations were created and eventually animation became an industry of its own.
The first motion picture that is considered as the first editing is the Race Horse created by Eadweard Muybridge in 1878. This was created by arranging twelve cameras along a track at Stanford’s estate and as a horse sped by, it tripped wires connected to the cameras, which took several photos in a fast succession. When the pictures were developed in the frames and put together it created an illusion of motion. But Muybridge did not stop there, he kept taking hundreds of photographs of people and animals in motion and displayed them in lectures and also invented a device to display them in called ‘zoopraxiscope’. The zoopraxiscope projected those images rapidly in sequence onto a screen and once you spin it, it produces the illusion of motion.
The first film for motion photography invented in 1885 by George Eastman and William H. Walker, which contributed to the progress of motion photography. Soon after that, the brothers Auguste, and Louis Lumiere created a hand-cranked machine called the camera operator, which could include both capture images and project still frames in the
In the USA the “New Hollywood” was in its prime, with directors such as George Lucas, Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese. These directors became very important in these times because the director became the leader of the film project, rather than a producer. The New Hollywood was different from the classical form mostly in its narrative. (2) The classical Hollywood way was to tell a story of a developing character. (1) However,
Film is a theme and character driven film that documents the progression of the two main characters from regular teenagers to violent criminals. Unlike most movies that document lives in a fly on the wall style, Film often shows the scenes from the points of view of the main characters. It does this by showing many close ups on their faces allowing the actors performances to be clear and visible to the audience and also by the editing and composition; shots showing exactly what the characters are seeing. This allows the audience to truly understand the characters and to provoke a personal emotional response. Here I will analyse the elements of film, describing techniques and why they are used.
Our society has been influenced by the invention of the film. History The very first patented film camera was conceptualized in England by a Frenchman by the name of Louis le Prince in 1888.
Stanley Kubrick is distinguished director famous for his unique auteur method of work, his devotion to filmmaking and his signature visual style and narrative composition. Even after his death in 1999, people still would describe him as a secretive and reclusive man, who is hard to work with. Malcolm McDowell who worked with Kubrick on his adaptation of A Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick, 1971) rejected the rumours that Stanley was hard to work with, but he was quiet and introverted, other close friends or family members to Stanley would identify him as quiet but also outgoing creative genius (Bogdanovich in Hughes, 2000 p: xi). His projects were carefully chosen and involved films that became cultural treasures like 2001: A
The aim of this essay is to evaluate my personal experience and challenges I faced during particular specialist role on the Major Project. Also, the learning outcomes, achievements and responsibilities would be discovered through the analysis in this review by concentrating on the specific role and filmmaking in general.
To tell the truth, the film industry has evolved and grown very quickly since its creation in the early 1900’s. Over the years, it has gained the attention of every culture in every part of the world. These days, thanks to its popularity, it is a big part in shaping the social culture by changing the audience's’ opinions or swaying them one way or another. The idea that a film
Film editing is described, when typed in to google as “the activity of selecting the scenes to be shown and putting them together to create a film” `but it is much more than just that. If done well it is invisible but also has the ability to control a film, even control the viewer watching the film. The process of editing film has been around nearly as long as film itself. After the cinema of attractions, people realised a narrative story could be constructed by splicing ends of celluloid together to tell a story. The most famous early example of this is The Great Train Robbery (1903) directed by Edwin S. Porter. Before Porters film the cinema of attractions consisted of single shot films of streets and crowded areas, projected later that day so that the people could see themselves on the big screen.