shot length- a matter of style and form

https://stephenfollows.com/many-shots-average-movie/

Spike Jonze- How they Get Here

DIRECTOR HOMAGE- READINGS TO INSPIRE YOU AND A VIDEO

WATCH: George Lucas in Love

Read: Elder - these are a selection of short interviews with directors. Please read this and pay attention to the detail and depth- and personal content in the questions and answers in these interviews. These are a model for you to use in your writing about a director. I recommend the book too- it will be placed on reserve for your class, in case you are interested in any of the directors in this book- posted below


Table of Contents from Robert K Elder, The Film that Changed my Life. 30 Directors on their ephiphanies in the dark  On reserve at the library

Narrative Homage

The auteur theory of cinema proposes that directors have styles and they should be recognized as artists much as we might identify the style of a painter or musician. For this project, we run with that idea.

The auteur theory, which was derived largely from Astruc's elucidation of the concept of caméra-stylo (“camera-pen”), holds that the director, who oversees all audio and visual elements of the motion picture, is more to be considered the “author” of the movie than is the writer of the screenplay.Jul 20, 1998

This page features a series of works by students in RTD365A and clips from films by professionals that highlight aspects of their particular aesthetic focus.

Student film and below inspirational director Michel Gondry

bonus content! Michel Gondry film with David Cross as a turd

TErry Gilliam (12 Monkeys, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Wes Anderson

Terrence Malik Motifs

Malick Motifs from Rachel Glassman on Vimeo.

One more of Malik: film uses a monologue

New directors:
Website of new directors


Dave Meyers- mostly music videos and commercials
https://www.radicalmedia.com/us/directors/dave-meyers?reel=commercial

Terence Nance (An oversimplification of her beauty)

Swimming in your skin again by Nance

Music video directors



2 clips from Orlando by Sally Potter who makes films where characters challenge traditional gender roles

Kuleshov effect

Three pairs of images from the film experiment carried out by the Russian psychologist Lev Kuleshov around 1920. Kuleshov discovered that audiences interpreted the actor's expression (the right of each pair, and all identical) in relation to the image it was paired with (left of each pair). The actor was perceived as hungry, sad, romantically intrigued, etc., depending on what was edited together with the actor. Kuleshov's results significantly influenced the development of montage theory.


Wherein two unrelated shots are connected in order to create a meaning, or to provide subjective motivation to a character.

Mockumentary- and self portrait

putting shots together
Kuleshov effect

http://rtv365.blogspot.com/2017/01/kuleshov-effect.html


The Life Of Pitti Peacocks - Pitti Uomo Mockumentary from Aaron Christian on Vimeo.


Missing in Iceland: a mockumentary from Alexandra Guité on Vimeo.

Here is a self portrait- its actually HONEST, but notice how he uses first person effectively to make you see things a particular way?

by David Goold

This is a video produced for the homage assignment but it tells a story about a person and who they care about- which could be true or false..

This was shot as if it was in a dream- one way to communicate something that may or may not be true.

Literally a portrait. Is this story true??

Homage+ style + David Lynch

Surrealism