Film is a Collaboration Masterpiece

The creation and consumption of films are a common favorite pastime for many people and have been for hundreds of years, but while some films can seem deceptively simple, many elements go into creating a scene, much less an entire movie. Directors use these elements which include, but are not limited to style, mood, composition and special effects to create a product that we often don’t acknowledge without looking deeper into the film. These components together are called Mise en Scène (Ebert). Of course, film can be enjoyed leisurely but there are so many more aspects of film to be explored and analyzed such as the composition of camera movement, lighting, color, sounds and music. In this case, I chose to analyze the “Redrum” scene from the renowned film, The Shining directed by Stanley Kubrick. In this scene, Danny Torrence, a five year old boy wanders around his mother’s room with a knife in hand, muttering the word “Redrum” over and over again before scrawling it across the door. I feel that a lot of this scene’s mood and style relies heavily on the camera work of the scene, the lighting and colors, and the music incorporated into the segment.

With this short but very interesting and informative class I have just scratched the surface of the what it takes to make a full fleged film. It takes much more than I had presumed to make a movie in Hollywood. The number of people that it takes to make a minute of a movie let alone the entire movie was astonishing to me. There are many things that it takes to start making a movie but without an idea of some sort there is no movie to be made.

In the film industry, there are directors who merely take someone else’s vision and express it in their own way on film, then there are those who take their own visions and use any means necessary to express their visions on film. The latter of these two types of directors are called auteurs. Not only do auteurs write the scripts from elements that they know and love in life, but they direct, produce, and sometimes act in their films as well. Three prime examples of these auteurs are: Kevin Smith, Spike Lee and Alfred Hitchcock.

It is perhaps the blocking from the director and the skills of the actors though that makes this performance so wonderful. The technique of layering was used by both in how

the points that are trying to be elaborated on coincide with the camera and the way

They’re many renowned filmmakers these days. You have Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, James Cameron, and this list goes on and on. Though these filmmakers are at the top of the food chain in their respective works, some of their works aren’t all distinguishable. Every year Hollywood produces many films that all look the same. What I mean to say is: when you watch a movie made by one of the figures mentioned above, you can’t always tie that movie to them.

From Tarantino’s drastically violent films to J.J. Abram’s obsession with lense flares, each director offers a new vision of movie making and telling a unique narrative through these styles. Sure, these artistic styles are distinctive and visually appealing, but none are as unique and special as Wes Anderson’s trademark style, symmetry. But what makes Wes Anderson so uniquely different from his colleagues in the competitive world of Hollywood? What makes his films and stories more memorable than others?

is clear, it is how this film is produced that takes a mundane story and brings

This however is not true. When making a film there are many components. The director alone cannot control all of these components therefor he/she cannot be considered a true auteur in the eyes of the critique if they think that he/she is behind everything. For example, when it comes to editing a film, a director cannot stand behind the editor and tell them every last detail he wants in the film, this part of creativity comes from the editor alone. This is the same when it comes to cinematography.

An extraordinary amount of structural art, emphasising colour, arrangements and grain, displays evidently in every scene. His signature is seen through the “challenging shots” cinematography, and the fantasy worlds in his narratives. Colour palette The Colour palettes in Anderson’s films are significant as it can be used to recognise his films from the rest. The frequent use of vibrant colours that occasionally clash with each other (yellow and orange) constructs a theatre like a backdrop, eliminating it from the current period.

As we moved into the auteur category of films, we went from films having a clear plot, ending, and meaning, to films having endings, plots, and meanings the audience had to actually sit and think about to find to find out what exactly the director was trying to portray. This is caused by directors that are considered auteurs. These directors wanted their viewers to be able to come up with their own meaning instead of just giving it to them. They want the audience to think as they watch the movie, instead of sitting there blank. So what is an auteur? An auteur, defined from our book, is a “a director or other creative intelligence with a recognizable and distinctive style who is considered the prime ‘author’ of a film” (Film Analysis 1063). An auteur creates movies as a form of art to portray what they feel to people. They can portray feelings of politics, love, sexuality and other feelings.

Every so often a movie is released with such tense anticipation and glamorous visual art that the public is drawn to this dramatic rendition of life in the theatre. For even just two hours or so, you are put into a different lifestyle. Action, drama or comedy it may be. We are thrust into a different way of thinking. We are forced to learn the characters thoughts and feelings. The hard work and artistic skill that goes into these magnificent films is not an easy thing to mimic. Out of the thousands of movies released worldwide each year only a handful are truly worthy of the label film art. Most of the great movies are either produced by a multi million dollar

In all forms of art there is a natural inclination to explore and experiment within the medium. The resulting methods and formats can be seen as alternatives and additions to existing ones. I do not believe that, in terms of technical decisions, there is a superior style of film making that the industry progresses to on a set path. I agree with Arnheim’s statement that “there is no objection to the complete film as an alternative to the stage” if it exists with the other types of films (Arhheim, 186). In some cases advances in method and technique are used to fix the problems of technological limitations. In other cases these advances provide alternatives. The introduction of color is described by the latter. Color was introduced as an alternative to black and white movies but never completely replaced them and didn’t stop the use of black and white as an effective technique in modern cinema.

From the beginning of film filmmakers were using the platform to tell people stories, so that people could go be entertained and lose themselves in the experience of seeing the film. Though this form of filmmaking was entertaining for most people, some filmmakers wanted to break this tradition and expand filmmaking into a completely different way. Instead of making the same old narrative films, like classical Hollywood, they want to make more abstract and complex films, they wanted to make films as more of an art-form. Instead of relying on actors and writes to tell a narrative story, these filmmakers wanted to change things up and make films that went against the norms of the Hollywood cinema. They wanted to experiment with different methods of filming, more imaginative and inventive forms. They also wanted their films to have meanings and express what they, the artist, were feeling and how they viewed the world. From this a new film movement was born, the experimental film movement.

Entertainment is a big business in most countries, particularly in America, and it even become bigger with the innovations and development of new technologies that allows easy film making, as well as the increasing interest of numerous individuals. Movie industry, also called as film industry comprises the commercial and technological institutions of film making such as film studios, cinematography, film production companies, film production, re-production, screenwriting, post production, distributions, film festivals and film directors, actors and other film staff.