Auteur Example

Zack Snyder

Did films such as

·         300

·         Watchmen

·         Sucker punch

·         Dawn of the dead

This auteur has a constant theme of violence in his films. In 300 you see the bloody battle of Thermopylae in 480 B.C. where the Spartan fought the Persians at the hot gates. In all other of the film he has produced they have been centred on violence. Watchmen and Dawn of the Dead were both very violent films one is on superheroes who are hated by society and the other is a zombie film.     

Star/performer area  

Here I will look at the actor in a range of different ways. Is that actor used in a specific genre (Clint Eastwood – westerns)? Does that actor have a certain way of performing? Does that actor always work with the same director? These are some of the question I would look at. It will be the performer on screen focused on

Genre

There are many main forms of genre then there are subgenres. These are broken down into 11 different types of genre:

·         Action - Stories whose central struggle plays out mainly through a clash of physical forces.

·         Adventure - Stories whose central struggle plays out mainly through encounters with new "worlds."

·         Comedy

·         Crime - Stories whose central struggle is about catching a criminal

·         Drama

·         Epics - Stories whose central struggle plays out in the midst of a clash of great forces or in the sweep of great historical change.

·         Horror -killing something in human 

·         Musicals – singing and dancing

·         Sci-fi - Stories whose central struggle is generated from the technology and tools of a scientifically imaginable world.

·         Western

·         Wars – centred around showing what a war was like 

Auteur - A filmmaker who influences their movies so much that they rank as their author.

The auteur's creative voice is distinct enough to shine through all kinds of studio interference and through the collective process; this could make a good director. If the involvement of the director is unclear, it may mean a poor film. The creator of the auteur Francois Truffaut said a quote:

“There are no good and bad movies, only good and bad directors.”     

Focus of FM3

For FM3 I will need to carry out a small sclae reaserch project. This is designed to devlop my research skills. It will be based on one focus film with appropriate reference to at least two other films. I will establish an area of investiagtion from the chosen film to one of the following frameworks.

• Star/ performer
• Genre
• Auteur
• Soical/ politcal/ cultrual  studies
• Gender issuses
• Ethnicity
• Institution
• Technnology