The Motion Picture Director is seen as a leader of others, as providing a kind of guiding force.
Although final
outcome of the movie is predetermined by the requirements of the script,
camera work, acting, and editing, the director provides certain organizational
context to the picture.
Although Directors must concentrate primarily on the structures of the
script. If their films are to be works of art, it will be because of the
inherent beauty in the narrative and dialogue patterns in the script.
Also the beauty of the film will be correlative with the quality of acting.
Directors attend not only to the performance as a whole, but to endless
minor nuances and gestures throughout. Directors also attend to the camera
work, their chief concern being for a pictorial beauty and smoothness
of execution. The director has to grasp the film as a whole.
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The director is the only participant in a film's creation whose moment of self-expression is wide enough and, thus, whose artistic vision may come to characterize the film as a whole. The director's very role in the filmmaking process forces him to attend the entire film. The Director guides all work and shapes it to achieve what he has in mind.
What and Who Is a Director?
The director creatively translates the script into sounds and images.
He or she visualizes the script by giving abstract concepts concrete form.
The director establishes a point of view on the action that helps to determine
the selection of shots, camera placements and movements, and the staging
of the action. It's important that the Director has the completed Movie
already in his head and as he directs the movie this will change as reality
meet the mind. The Director can be passive or take a very intrusive role
in the movie making process. He determines the mood of the film. He can
follow the script word for word or he can use it simply as a guide.
Take two lovers kissing in the street. Is it raining or sunny are they happy or are they sad. At what angle is the camera to the two lovers? Is the scene shot from a straight on angle or is the scene shot from the ground looking up her dress as the wind blows giving it a sexual look. These are the things that a Director may or may not decide to be concerned with.
The Director can turn a drama into a comedy, and an action film into a musical. The Director has incredible power to shape the movie into what he feels it should be. The Director decides how dark the movie will be. This is why, depending on the Director, some movies are great and some are just so so.
A Director must have vision, he must be able to create a story in his head and turn the thought into reality. Is he able to think in a manor that connects to the human condition and create something that will cause us to desire the feelings that the movie will invoke in us.
A Director will determine weather feelings are invoked in us or not. He must make us feel the love, the hate, the pain, that the story want to convey. He must know us as an audience to bring us into his mind. He has to know what we need, not just what he like but what we like and need. He has to know love, hate and all the rest of the feelings he's trying to invoke in us.
He has to feel the emotion in the camera angle, and block the scene just to lead us along just enough to keep us yearning for more. He must be able to make us high with the altered world he is presenting to us. We must soak it up and become intoxicated with the emotions he causes us to dredge up from our own past.
A good Director will take the emotions of the writer of the screen play and mix that with our own experiences and create something that did not exist in the universe before that will make this miserable existence of ours a bit more tolerable.
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