Chapter 1
Crafting the master plan
Chapter 2
The choreography of the camera
Chapter 3
The director and actor connection
Chapter 4
The final rewrite in editing
Chapter 5
The rise of the auteur
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Ch 5 · The rise of the auteur
andy The Rise of the Auteur
We're writing stories with the lens! (With the lens!) Yeah, the director's got the pen! (Got the pen!)
andy The director defined suspense as showing the audience a hidden bomb under a table that the characters do
andy Hands adjust an anamorphic lens near storyboard sketches and a glowing editing timeline.
Fun Fact
Auteur origin: The word 'auteur' is French for 'author,' coined to describe directors who write their movies with a camera instead of a pen.
Glossary
auteur (noun)
A filmmaker whose personal style and control over a movie are so great that the filmmaker is regarded as its author. François Truffaut championed this directorial theory in 1954 within the influential French journal Cahiers du Cinéma.
A filmmaker whose personal style and control over a movie are so great that the filmmaker is regarded as its author. François Truffaut championed this directorial theory in 1954 within the influential French journal Cahiers du Cinéma.
Quiz
How did Alfred Hitchcock famously define the difference between surprise and suspense?
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Which Mexican director is celebrated for his use of dark fantasy, practical monsters, and fairy tales?
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Which Swedish director is famous for using stark, high-contrast shadows to explore deep psychological themes?
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What is the term for a director's recurring themes, visual styles, and creative habits across their movies?
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Which modern director is famous for using pastel colors and extreme, center-point visual symmetry?