Director Essays, Research Papers & Term Papers (77) essays
Directors essays:
Hitchcock: A Signature Style
... hitch's style were Vertigo, Psycho, and Shadow of a Doubt. In Vertigo, Hitchcock uses light and shadow to make scenes more menacing and while this is not an uncommon practice among directors, Hitchcock utilizes lighting to its fullest to bring out the personality of each character. Kim Novak ...
Steven Spielberg
... first production, with script and actors, when he was thirteen, and a year later he won a prize for a forty minute war movie titled Escape to Nowhere. At the age of sixteen, his 140-minute production, Firelight, was shown in a local movie theater. In college, his short film ...
WALT DISNEY
... film characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. He later produced feature length cartoon films, movies about wild animals in their natural surroundings, and films starring human actors. Disney won 32 Academy Awards for his movies and for scientific and technical contributions ...
A discussion of Martin Scorsese's films and the violent influence they have had on the American people
... Academy Award winning actor, the film was only given a small budget of 6.5 million dollars. The main goal of the film was not to make money, but to be a personal expression. This intense personal involvement by director, star, and ...
Capra's Effect
... and in his world. I think that this was the message that Capra was tring to send out. His ideals of integrity and dignity were displayed through his character Mr. Smith. Capra once said,"I thought that drama was when the actors ...
Short paper on George Lucas' career.
... Wars movie he will make. For the original movie George Lucas had wanted the exact cameras from the film North by Northwest which is directed by Alfred Hitchcock. George Lucas had liked the look of those cameras and had wanted it for Star Wars. One movie ...
Baz luhrman film study: red curtain cinema
... film sets the scene straight away. The audience is pulled into the Shakespearian language straight away without noticing too much in the first scene. This goes on the age old saying 'actions speak louder than words' the actions and expressions in the first ...
A Working Man's Game. Resevoir Dogs by Quentin Tarantino
... film festival and the world by surprise with his motion picture Reservoir Dogs. The movie ...
Walt Disney and How He Revolutionized the World of Animation
... characters a personality that the public could relate to. Disney introduced Goofy, Pluto, and Donald Duck, in addition to Minnie Mouse who had already made a cameo in three cartoons. In 1932 Disney's film Flowers and Trees became the first color animated film ever. It won an Academy Award ...
South African Directors - Manie van Rensburg, Katinka Heyns, Jans Rautenbach, Ross Devenish. Bibliography included.
... character study of loneliness in cold, bleak Hillbrow. Van Rensburg formed his own independent film company, Visio Films, in 1969. In the 1980's he received an International Film Festival of New York award for his historical TV drama series, "Heroes", and a Merit Award from the London Film Festival ...