I had a general idea of what to do, but I found the research area is too big. I want to focus on one aspect of the film for research. Therefore, I chose a more detailed topic in this research direction and field.
Does the success of a film depend entirely on the director’s audio-visual language skills? An analysis of the films “Infernal Affairs” and “The Departed”.
The director is the organizer and leader of the creation of film and television works, the artist who expresses his ideas with the help of actors, and the general person in charge of putting film and television literary scripts on the screen. As the synthesizer of various artistic elements in film and television creation, the director’s task is to organize and unite all the creative staff, technical staff and performers in the cast and crew, so that they can give full play to their talents and integrate the creative labor of all people.
The quality of a film and television work largely depends on the quality and accomplishment of the director; The style of a film and television work often reflects the artistic style and values of the director.
Its work contents include: study and analyze the script with the main creative staff, find the appropriate expression form for the script, and take charge of the artistic standards of the whole play; Work with producers to nominate and recommend actors for roles; According to the script and shooting requirements to choose the location or guide the construction of the interior scene; Guide the prop team to complete the preparation and arrangement of props; Direct the on-site shooting work; Discuss the publicity plan with the production company; Direct the lighting, stage management, actors, camera, sound recording, art, makeup, costume and other departments.
Evaluate the director’s work
What’s the best director choice? The best screenplay is the best story, the best cinematography is the best picture, the best actor is the best performance, and the best director? It seems that if any aspect of a work is good, we can say that the director is good. If any link of a work goes wrong, we can also say that the director is not good. So does the best director pick the best film? And what about best picture? Where should we start to evaluate directors? Should we judge directors by their technical ability? Is a director who can make beautiful pictures a good director? No, it’s the art and photography teams that actually make these images. The director can make demands, but how to meet the requirements of the director, or even beyond the requirements of the director, is a collaboration between photography and art. Even if the director is a good cameraman himself, he still needs an equally good operator to achieve the images he wants. Again, even if the director doesn’t understand any of this, a good cinematographer can make up for it. What does a director do? Character A enters the room and finds Character B dead. If you were a director, what would the picture look like in your head? Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles
The design, how to handle the position, how to handle the sound. How to control the pace, how to express emotions. There’s only one character listening to the recording, so how do you not get bored? The whole show takes place in a single room, and how do you shoot it to keep the audience’s attention. It all comes down to design. In fact, when the director’s job begins, all he has is a written script. Not fundamentally different from the novels we read. How to turn these words into pictures. That’s the director’s job. The basic measure of whether a director is good or not is what kind of shots he can design. When a director makes a film, it is like writing a composition. Every shot is a word, and every video is a paragraph. Everyone writes the same word and follows the same grammar. Some people write out poetry, some people write out can’t read. How do we evaluate the quality of a director? To experience the design of each shot. Try not to say everything in lines, try not to show it directly, try to show as much information as possible in as few shots as possible, do something that no one else can think of.
First of all, we can’t judge the director by the script. Although the director has a certain influence on the script, it is the screenwriter who completes the script, not the director. Given a story framework, the character’s personality and motivation are determined, and the theme ideas are expressed. That’s technically the writer’s job. Sometimes, we see a bad story that is illogical, and then we scold the director, in fact, the director is very wrong, most of the time the level of the script is not the director alone can decide.