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Introduction to Film

This guide explores the multifaceted role of film directors, detailing their essential responsibilities in transforming a screenplay into a finished motion picture. Directors manage communication with producers, cinematographers, and actors, and make critical decisions on casting, location, sound, and music. They create shot lists and oversee mise-en-scène elements like production design, color, lighting, and actor performances. Additionally, it addresses common misconceptions about directors, illustrating their creative control and collaboration in filmmaking through examples and storyboarding techniques.

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Introduction to Film

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  1. Introduction to Film Directing

  2. Director Job Responsibilities: • Turn the writer’s screenplay into a motion picture • Deliver that motion picture to the editor(s) • Communicates with: • Producers • Cinematographer • Principal talent

  3. Director Directors approve the following: • Location and set design • Casting • Sound & Music They create the shot list: • A list containing all scenes and the shots needed to make the film

  4. Directing Misperceptions • The director is the boss • Directors tell the actors what to do • The director is behind the camera • Directors are slobs

  5. Storyboarding Graphic organizers, such as a series of illustrations or images, displayed in sequence for the purpose of previsualizing a motion picture

  6. Storyboarding • Example: • The Fellowship of the Ring • Directed by Peter Jackson

  7. Mise-en-scene • Translation: Put on stage or set • Originally applied to theater • Director accounts for everything that will appear in the shot

  8. Mise-en-scene • Production Design • Color • Lighting • Actors’ performance(s) • Framing • Sound

  9. Production Design • Sets, Props, & Costumes • Example: • Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

  10. Color • Use of color(s) for emotion or symbolism • Examples: • The Sixth Sense • Pleasantville

  11. Lighting • Color, amount of, type, and positioning of lights • Examples: • Film Noir • Blade Runner • Hard Boiled

  12. Actor’s Performance • Casting, make up, blocking (movement) • Example: • Any Tom Cruise movie

  13. Framing • Camera position (height & angle), depth of field, and aspect ratio • Examples: • The Lord of the Rings Trilogy

  14. Sound • Sound that comes from the scene (not added later) • Example: • Psycho

  15. Mise-en-scene • Let’s see if you can find the elements of mise-en-scene in the opening sequence of The Fellowship of the Ring

  16. Psycho

  17. Based on Ed Gein • “Dressed out” body of Bernice Worden • Skulls on corner posts of bed • Skullcaps as soup bowls • Lampshades made from skin • Chairs upholstered with skin • Socks made from flesh • “Woman suit”

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