The Auteur Theory: Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) This essay is going to discuss director Alfred Hitchcock is an auteur in film. First, there will be an introduction of Auteur Theory. After that, an introduction of Director Alfred Hitchcock would be presented. This essay is going to focus on personal style and interior meanings of Hitchcock’s work. The meanings were presented by Mise-en-scene, montage and story plot.
A film following a protagonist from party to party among the rich is practically a slap in the face to the neo-realist movement. It was often said that “Nights of Cabiria” marked the conclusion of the first phase of Fellini’s career in neo-realism and “La Dolce Vita”, the beginning of the next. It is my preference to see his films in a continuous visual timeline so that I can visualize Fellini’s artistic growth. Both “La Dolce Vita” and “Nights of Cabiria” unfold in an episodic manner. However, “Nights of Cabiria” has a stricter and more traditional narrative structure, while “La Dolce Vita” is basically a series of short films.
One specific scene, out of 19 scenes, which is called “The revenge”, is going to be discussed in this forthcoming essay. This results out of the scene’s consistence of many interesting filming techniques that create emotional and controversial feelings among the audience while watching it. The screen duration of this movie is approximately 113 min / 115 minutes. (Director’s cut) The filming locations were Germany and the USA. SCENE NAME:
Eisenstein has become so thoroughly identified with montage in standard histories of film that it is unsettling to discover that his first attempt at film-making was found wanting precisely in that area, (Nesbet,2007) Lev Kuleshov claimed that Eisenstein was someone who knew how to work with single frames but did not yet have proper control over editing techniques. The recombination of the film actor’s body according to the plans and desires of the editor,was just one part of the program, being a necessary prerequisite to the montage process.The modern cinema actor,once swallowed up by the cinema machine, was to be treated like the workers of Packington. Montage ,then
“My path leads to the creation of a fresh perception of the world. I can thus decipher a world that you do not know.” – Dziga Vertov. The Man with the Movie Camera is viewed as a pinnacle reference of documentary film for individuals everywhere and is an example of where editing is extensively used to create meaning. The 1928 piece documents a day within a Soviet City and has become renowned as a political masterpiece that has influenced many filmmakers with its range of editing techniques and alternative stance in cinema. In the 1920s structured order meant filmmakers followed an unwritten set of rules that determined plots, protagonists and the genre of successful films.
In order to find out the relevancy of the project management tools in the filmmaking industry; we are going to compare the different stages of the filmmaking process and the project management process. In the same time we will take the example of a well-known movie and its process: Fight Club. This movie was chosen because of its average budget and process as regards others Hollywood movies (all the data have been found on professional cinema websites such as IMDBpro and Variety, and also in the book by Waxman&Sharon (2005).” Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System.”). Moreover this movie was undertaken without the help of the project management method so we will figure out in the essay the mistakes, which could have been avoided with the using of the proper method. In the project management method, five stages have been discovered; these five stages allow the maximum efficiency in every aspects of the management of project.
Fairchild has, “described Lucas’ vision as Blakean not because it imitates Blake’s or is influences by it but rather because they are visions of shared archetypes: innocence, experience, initiation, toe pastoral.” Even though Lucas may have propelled the industry to the next phase as we can see it now, his move was frowned upon during the time of his transition in the late 1970s. Until Lucas’ radical change, films were made the old fashion way. Taking the time to build full sets in studios, wasting money, finding places to film on location, taking the time to travel to location to film it. It was a process that was getting old and expensive. Lucas wanted a change.
While reviewing this work at first for enjoyment, I soon began to develop an interest in video editing, which then led to a love for animation. Special Effects began during the early 1990s, making a huge change in the way we saw movies. Computer Design has revolutionized cinema viewing at an extraordinary pace, that “In 1977 the first Star Wars movie amazed moviegoers with heretofore unimagined special effects, but by the 1990s technology had advanced so rapidly that the movie seemed dated and amateurish” (McConnell 1). Becoming a Special Effects Technician requires many years of training and education, on-the-job learning skills, and many long hours of work spent applying originality to the animation. To me, it is well worth the time and effort.
Storytelling Though Film What draws people to film over any other media used to tell stories? The written word has existed for hundreds of years going back to the Guttenberg Bibles, and yet consumers overwhelmingly prefer to view films. The answer lies in the relationship we feel with a well made film. Films have the ability to captivate the audience, to draw them into the story in such a way that a book can never accomplish. Film has the power to create real emotion attachment between the viewer and the characters on screen.
The Theme of Revolution in Cinema: The word revolution literally means, “A fundamental change in power or organizational structures that takes place in a relatively short period of time.” This includes social, political and economic revolutions, all which are often intertwined and connected. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution) ‘Revolution’ is a genre in Cinema that has been used and often abused by many directors all over the world. There are however certain exceptional films which, having been produced under this challenging theme, accurately depict the true essence of a ‘revolution’. A revolutionary film does not necessarily narrow down to a political revolution. Films based on a revolutionary theme may be the transformation of a small society, as is in the movie ‘Freedom Writers’, it may be the development of a large community as is in ‘Lagaan’ or perhaps an uprising of an ant world trying to escape their century long dictatorship from the Grass Hoppers, as is in ‘Ants’.