STYLISTIC RESEARCH / VIDEO ESSAY NOTES
- OWEN NUTKINS
- Jan 16, 2018
- 6 min read
STYLISTIC RESEARCH
AUTEUR THEORY
''An auteur is a singular artist who controls all aspects of a collaborative creative work, a person equivalent to the author of a novel or a play''
It's where the director has their voice, their vision shown throughout the whole film, even when say the editor has edited it different or someone's influenced the idea of the director, it's about having full control. Would a film be the same if it was directed by some else? What makes a director have a voice, have their own style & uniqueness.
Arising in France in the late 1940s, the auteur theory—as it was dubbed by the American film critic Andrew Sarris—was an outgrowth of the cinematic theories of André Bazin and Alexandre Astruc.
Two of its theoreticians—François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard—later became major directors of the French New Wave.
Directors with clear different styles/showing examples
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CHOSEN DIRECTOR / SIMILAR FILMS
Jonathan Entwistle
Jonathan a graduate of the prestigious Chelsea School of Art in London. He shoots commercials through Stink for clients such as British Airways, Netflix, Nike & PayPal. He is represented by CAA and Grandview and 42 in the UK.
He recently created the show 'The End Of The F***ing World' with Netflix and Channel 4
With auteur theory a debatable question, does my director have his own style, would the films he's directed be the same or different if they where produced by another creative director?
As the director I've picked is rather small, I think he has his own style but I think similar results could still be achieved with someone else, I think once you're know as a director you have a style & portfolio that stands out.
But after seeing TEOTFW & inspired by the style of it, while also inspired hugely by other films similar to it, including
they all followed a similar pattern within shots, colors and presatation
COLOR WITHIN FILMS / COLOR SCHEMES
THE 5 COMMON FILM COLOR SCHEMES
1) Complementary Color Scheme
Two colors on opposite sides of the color wheel make a complimentary pair. This is by far the most commonly used pairing. A common example is orange and blue, or teal. This pairs a warm color with a cool color and produces a high contrast and vibrant result. Saturation must be managed but a complimentary pair are often quite naturally pleasing to the eye.
2) Analogous Color Scheme
Analogous colors sit next to each other on the color wheel. They match well and can create a overall harmony in color palette. It’s either warmer colors, or cooler colors so doesn’t have the contrast and tension of the complementary colors.
3) Triadic Color Scheme
Triadic colors are three colors arranged evenly spaced around the color wheel. One should be dominant, the others for accent. They will give a vibrant feel even if the hues are quite unsaturated.
4. Split-Complementary Color Scheme
A split-complimentary color scheme is really very similar to complimentary colors but instead of using the direct opposite color of the base color, it uses the two colors next to the opposite. It has the same high contrast but less tension than a complimentary pair.
5. Tetradic Color Scheme
Tetradic colors consist of four colors arranged into two complementary pairs. The result is a full palette with many possible variations. As with most of these color harmonies, one color is usually dominant.
With color taking a huge part within film, while also a huge take into my film - colour charts always help & with adobe's color wheel site, I was able to import selected images from inspired films and select the key colors creating a colour chart, it allows you to compare the colors to see how a constant style is used throughout with colors and what type of colour scheme it is, for mine it's mostly a split complementary colour scheme.
This furthering my research into the colors I will personally aim to use within my film.
https://color.adobe.com/create/image/
SPECTATOR-SHIP THEORY/ RECEPTION THEORY
What is spectator ship theory or emotion?
As we watch films we all experience different emotions, from fear, pleasure, desire, surprise, shock and a whole vary of emotions, but not everyone experiences these equally to others and not even at the same moments in a film.
So what is that determines our individual predisposition to respond in a particular emotion to a film? There is an intense interaction with the sounds and images occurring as we watch films, and that film makers are deliberately setting out to create emotional responses & to this it's something that as a creator, I need to consider to create a story that afflicts emotion onto people as much as any other film can.
From the story, to actors, to costume & colors, to sounds and the style of image, everything creates emotion within a film, but understanding how & how to do it successfully is why something like Spectatorshop theory is there.
How can you make the viewer involved, implicated and engaged in the viewing experience?
GENRE THEORY
Genre theory by Daniel chandler is based around settings & themes of a film or how these create a genre
Steve Neale’s theory of Repetition and Difference. Steve Neale states that genres all contain instances of repetition and difference, difference is essential to the economy of the genre.
Neale states that the film and its genre is defined by two things:
How much is conforms to its genre’s individual conventions and stereotypes. A film must match the genre’s conventions to be identified as part of that genre.
How much a film subverts the genre’s conventions and stereotypes. The film must subvert convention enough to be considered unique and not just a clone of an existing film.
NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
Narrative form is the structure through which movies tell stories. When we speak of ‘going to the movies,’ we almost always mean that we are going to see a narrative film – a film that tells a story.
Narratives appear throughout media and society – in novels, plays, comic books, television shows and even commercials. Narratives are most common in fiction film, but appear in all basic types of film: - Documentaries n Animated films n Experimental and avant-garde films
A narrative is a string of events occurring in space and time & the way the events happen create logic of cause and effect ties together character traits, goals, obstacles and actions.
Films use different characters to tell a story, with Traits of a character taking huge effects. Traits being the attitudes, skills, habits, tastes, psychological drives and any other qualities that distinguish a character, to where the character creates the narrative story – from where it starts to the build and to end or the reward.
MISE EN SCENE
Is a French term to describe what is put in the frame of a shot
There are 5 elements to mise en scene
Settings & Props
Costume, Hair & Make Up
Facial Expressions & Body Language
lighting & Colour
Positioning of characters/objects within the frame
Settings can be either locations or built from scratch, they are to raise expectations to an audience for what could happen.
Costume, Hair & make up – create character – giving us what time, society and culture the film is in
Facial expressions and body language give the audience a clear indication of how someone feels but this is contrasts with music- someone could look happy & we will assume they are happy but conflict the with scary music and maybe not so much, so the expressions create feelings that relate back on the audience
Positioning’s to frame can draw characters or objects into the frame, applying & taking our attention, it can indicate relationships between people
Lighting & colours – can give a certain Look feel and mood whereas red can mean danger or passion
TITLE SEQUENCES
''A title sequence (also called an opening sequence or intro) is the method by which films or television programs present their title, key production and cast members, utilizing conceptual visuals and sound.
It typically includes (or begins) the text of the opening credits, and helps establish the setting and tone of the program. It may consist of live action, animation, music, still images, and/or graphics''
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