Director's role
...action, mastering the shots, and also giving suggestions throughout the recording and editing process. A good director makes sure that all parts of a film are produced and brought together into a single piece of art. The position of the director in the traditional filmmaking process varies greatly and can be extremely complex. The director is seen as a leader of others, as providing a kind of guiding force. One important part of the director is to capture the intellectual and emotional values of the film. M. Night Shyamalan, director of The Sixth Sense, does a great job of showing these qualities in this film. He directed this film as well as the screenwriting. Shyamalan puts together a dark thriller with great plots twist. By his great directorial talent, Shyamalan hides the fact the main character of this film is actually dead the whole movie. It makes the film great because as an audience you watch the film and it brings out the intellectual and emotional binds of the story. In the standpoint of comparing most professional directors to each other, it is hard to single out a define director’s role. There are some directors who concentrate primarily on the structures of the script. The magic of these directors is to show the beauty of the film through the dialogue and the narrative patterns in the script. Other directors are occupied primarily with the performance of actors. To them, the beauty of the film is shown through the quality of acting. Some directors attend primarily to the camerawork, their chief concern being for a pictorial beauty and smoothness of execution. One great director who always had word on camera movements was Alfred Hitchcock. In the film Psycho, Hitchcock uses an overhead camera angle to hide certain narrative details. When the psychopathic killer carries his mother down the stairs, the overhead view hides the fact that his mother is dead and that she really isn’t talking to him. Also Hitchcock had control of camera shots when he used great point of view shots in his film Rear Window. The P.O.V showed the perception of the main character’s sight. The great editing of this movie makes the point of view flow perfectly. There are a lot of directors that reside to the editing process as well. All steps prior to editing merge the material into a finally shaped piece of art visualized in their head beforehand. So today there has evolved nearly as many theories of film directing as there are directors. Having that the actors are concentrating on their gestures, the writers...