Film Directing since 1890
BY: MARIA DZINDZALETA
Definition
Film Director:
a person who directs the making of a film. Generally, a film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects, and visualizes the script while guiding the technical crew and actors
Facts:
- 600 movies a year
- longest movie is 240 hours Times Forever
- shortest movie is 100 seconds Fresh Guacamole
- two most successful filmmakers didn't go to film school while would be Steven Spielberg and James Cameron)
- usually it takes six months to make a movie
Steven Spielberg
Some of the Movies:
- Jaws
- E.T
- War horse
- Lincoln
- Casper
- Twister
James Cameron
Some of the Movies:
- Titanic
- Avatar
- Aliens
- True Lies
Best Movie In 1950
Best Movie in 2016
The requirements for becoming a film director
- 4 years of college
- film degree (Journalism, film, communication, acting, arts management, or a comparable discipline)
- experience
Peter Jackson
Peter jackson is one of the greatest movie director in history. For example the movies that he made are All of the Hobbit movies, all of the Lord of the rings, King Kong and District 9.
Genres and Cameras for film directing
Genres:
- Action
- Romance
- Adventure
- Drama
- Comedy
Prosumer Camorders
PROS:
- good image and sound quality
- fairly easy to use
- better handling
Cons:
- bigger and more complicated than basic camcorders
- image quality may not be accepted by broadcasters
Top 25 Film Colleges
- university of Southern California
- New York University
- American Film Institute
- University of California Los Angeles
- California Institute of the Arts
- Columbia University
- Chapman University
- Loyola Marymount University
- Emerson College
- University of Texas, Austin
- Boston University
- Stanford University
- University of North Carolina School of the Arts
- Savannah College of Art and Design
- Columbia College Chicago
- Ringling College of Art and Design
- Rhode Island School of Design
- San Francisco State University
- Syracuse University
- Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
- Florida State University
- Northwestern University
- Colorado Film School
- Ithaca College
Salary For Film Directing
California film directors earn an average of $128,790 per year. Directors in Los Angeles, Long Beach and Glendale California earn the highest salary of $139,770. New York is the second highest paying state for film directors, paying an average of$112,000 annually.
What do you need in a movie?
- script
- location
- props
- actors
- light and camera
- crew and director
- film editing and sound software
How long does it take to make a animated movie?
Pixar movies can take anywhere from 4 years to 7 years!!!!