Auteur: a film maker
Hitchcock, Kubrick and Burton are all known for having a personal stamp.
The technical competence of the director
- Expressionist lighting
- Story telling visually in a silent era
- Subjective camera
- Dolly zoom
- Clever use of montage
- Gainsborough Hitchcock did a apprenticeship
- Nosferatu F.W Mauranu '1923
- Suggesting monster by shadow and lighting
- The lodger a story of london fog '1927
- Hitchcock was inspired by these ideas and creates his first film. Shadows, dark eyes, inspired by German and visual art
- Problem solving visually and innovatively.
- Subjective shot: putting yourself as one the characters in the film. -champagne and Jamaican inn
- Experimenting with the audiences perception
- Dolly zoom: an unsettling camera, feeling of distance and survere subjection
- Virtigo / mans fear of height.
- Tension, horror and anxiety
- Cutting and montage what is drama but life with the dull bits cut out
- Pysco storyboard 1960
- Fragments everything due to the morals on the time no blood or naked women could be shown. Impressionist
- Aucestration : loud notes / soft notes
- Signs and image to create shock
- Pure cinematics the assembly of film
- Drama through scale, pace and montage
The directors distinguishable personality
- Expressionism: form evokes emotion
- Cameo appearances of the director
- Narrative is often visual rather than told through dialogue
- Continuous of certain actors
- Obsessive use of the blond actresses
- Suspense
- Blondes make the best victims
- Suspense is generated when the audience can see danger his characters can't see
- There's no terror in the bang of a gun just the anticipation
- Vivid in the terror or simplicity not a lot of blood
Express
- Not concerned with realism or naturalism
- Not interested in telling a story but expressing emotion
- Vertigo : voyeurism - watching
- The mind and the effects of trauma, cause people to behave in certain ways.
- Madness and mental health
- Stylistic, colour filters, surrealism, symbolism
- Cameo- self portrait
Interior meaning
- Leaves Gainsborough to work in studios in American
- David o Selznick introduced him to psychoanalysis
- They make Rebecca, spellbound and notorious
- Salvador Dali collaboration Imagination of how to represent things
- Interest in the deeper recesses of the mind
- Birds eye view
- Bird symbolism
- Themes: ordinary people, identity, espionage and spying, murder and madness, humor, sexuality , dark vintners of the mind.
Criticism of auteur's
- Disguises the work of others ( art directors, cinematographer)
- Male based
- Universal view of quality
- A capitalist device by selling a film by virtue of its directory
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