The Artistic Director or Director works hand-in-hand with the Producer and Director to provide a detailed set, location, and pleasing setting for the film.As the director of the film, you also have to make sure that each actor or actor/actress plays their part perfectly. Directors are responsible for the artistic vision of the film. Directors are usually not involved in the financial side of filmmaking unless they are acting as a producer and director at the same time.

Film director (fr. régisseur, from Latin rego – to manage.) is the director who directs the production of a film. By the way, in 2021 the ProfGid Career Guidance Center developed an accurate career guidance test. He himself will tell you what professions suit you, give an opinion about your personality type and intelligence.

Usually the director does the following:

Chooses a script (often writes it himself or participates in writing it);
Determines the overall artistic style of the film;
Supervises the work of artists (costume designers, set designers, etc.);
Selects actors;
Supervises actors, both in terms of mise-en-scene, and in terms of manner of play and other expressive means;
Directs the work of cameramen;
Supervises film editing.

The producer plays an important role in modern filmmaking. And in some cases, he defines the concept of the future film, and its style, based on commercial considerations. Therefore, we can say that in modern cinema there are two trends: directorial (authorial) cinema and producerial cinema.

The brightest examples of modern directing (auteur cinema) are in the works of Federico Fellini, Fraunce Truffaut, Woody Allen, Ingmar Bergman, etc.

Cinema can be divided into three main genres: fiction film, documentary and animation (animation). Each of them has its own direction of directing. The ancestor of feature films is considered to be the director Georges Méliès, and documentary – the Lumière Brothers. The self-taught engineer Emile Reynaud was the creator of the first cartoon.

Before the advent of sound cinematography, the main task of the director of feature films was to stage funny situations and pantomimes (Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Sergei Eisenstein). There was an exaggerated expressiveness in the close-ups, and the plasticity of the actors was as expressive as possible.

Sound brought new features to movies: complex dialogues, musical accompaniment, etc. Films became more realistic. The next step was the advent of color film. And in recent years – 3D technology. (“Avatar” by James Cameron, etc.) However, new inventions do not cancel the main thing: a person goes to the cinema for strong feelings. Cinema is an expressive way to show an interesting story. And each filmmaker has his own means of expression.

The director works under contract with a film studio or production center, which not only ensures the smooth running of the film (financing, administration), but also deals with its promotion in the market.

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