For my arts challenge I have look into the requirements of directing. I believe that I have some strengths that would make me a good director such as an interest in photography and a drive to try and create interesting stories that people can connect with and with evoke a powerful effect on my audience.
I have been part of several short film projects with friends and school and I'm in the Pre production stages of creating a film as part of a course for the British film institute. This has helped me look at film production on a more professional and looked at ways to plan it a lot more effectively.
From this course I have also learnt about the other roles of film making that are important for directors to understand if they want to be able to oversee the crew and make sure that every part of the film works well.
To try and further my ability as a director I have been looking at lot of interviews and behind the scenes features for films by some of my favorite directors (Wes Anderson, Edgar Wright, ect.) And I have found out how the importance of cinematography and editing, can be used to create an effect that actors cannot by themselves.
In Edgar wright's films for example, whilst he is always sure to have a funny script, alot of the quirkiness and humor come from the visuals and how they are used in combination with sound and editing. For example, there is a scene from Sean of the Dead, where the protagonists try and protect themselves from a zombie by beating it with pool cues, whilst this doesn't sound particularly funny, by having all the movements in the scene in time to "Don't stop me now" by queen, a sense of ridiculousness and joy is created offering viewers a chuckle at what other films would take so seriously.
He also uses matching scene transitions to create fluidity and sometimes humor. It also shows skill as a director for knowing when to use these kinds of cuts and when not to. For our film as part of the BFI course we tried to do two different matching scene transitions and whilst one of them looked quite good and flowed relatively well. the other felt clunky, with the two shots not being similar enough for it to give the right effect
This is really good, Lewis. You just need to go into a little more detail about your arts challenge and what you're going to do. For example, what you're going to research and when you're going to complete it each week etc.
ReplyDeleteWell done so far.