Sergio Leone, the motifs of Leone is how he uses a very similar cast with his own style. In the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly he uses many of his many characteristics in film. This is seen by the:

• Opening titles what are always the same what he uses to add his own artistic style at the beginning.
• The main principle actors are made up of a 11 people who play different roles in the dollar trilogy.
• The Mexican standoff by itself is a trademark of Leone.
• The shots of the eyes to signify conflict and tension is a clear style choice by Leone as well.

James Cameron is a hard one to decide if he is a auteur or not as he doesn’t stay with one genre or has clear film style. However there are stick out things what can lead to you considering him as auteur:

• His way of balancing multiple protagonists in a movie.
• How he handles females as the main hero and are the ones who are usually made to be both strong and compelling.
• He casts actors he’s worked with before occasionally.
• He is able to make nonhuman people feel real and give them emotion.
• His biggest detail of him being an auteur is how ambitious and incredible is his cinematography is in movies.

Sound editing involves the assembly and sometimes creation of sound recording to produce a final sound mix for a film.

A sound editor is different to a designer because they focus more on assembling the sounds together rather than initially creating original sound.

Notable sound editors include:

Richard King – won Academy awards for his work on Dunkirk (2017) Inception (2010) directed by Christopher Nolan

Paul N.J Ottosson – won two academy awards for his sound editing on The Hurt Locker (2008) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012) both directed by Kathryn Bigelow

A film director is the person who has the vision for the film and plans to recreate that vision for the screenplay for the final cut of the film. To do this they guide the cast and crew to perform their certain roles while also choosing what goes into the film. Directors can be also screenplay writers.

Notable directors are:

• James Cameron, Terminator 1/2, Aliens, Titanic, Avatar
• Quentin Tarrantino, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill, Inglorious Bastards
• Ridley Scott, Alien, Gladiator, Blade Runner, The Martian
• Steven Spielberg, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones franchise, Jaws, ET, Schindler’s list, Saving Private Ryan
• Francis Coppola, The Godfather trilogy, Apocalypse Now

My crime drama film will be a neo – noir that is like Blade Runner. The film will be stylized in a way that is reminiscent of the 1940’s. 

• Catharine Johnson is the granddaughter of a wealthy man called Lenard Johnson and she is going to visit him, but when she arrives, she finds that he has died under suspicious circumstances.
• The police are called, and Catharine is named as a suspect, even though she had arrived after the death of her grandfather, since she was left a lot of money in her grandfather’s will. Catharine loved her grandfather and recalls fond memories from her childhood when he took her in after her parents died. He has left her a plain wooden box in his will, and he left her a letter which says that the contents are “very important” and that she must only open it in the most “dire of circumstances” 
• The police suspect Catherine of murdering her grandfather and Henry Hornby, the police chief is particularly quick to accuse her, and this seems suspicious to Catherine, so she looks in the box that her grandfather gave her, and she discovers that Hornby used to be Lenard Johnson’s business partner but he tried to swindle her grandfather out of his earnings and her grandfather cut him out of the business. This revelation causes Catharine to realize that it was Hornby that murdered her grandfather. Hornby enters and tells her that her assumptions are correct and that he killed her parents as well, he attempts to kill her to cover up his crimes, but she escapes, and Hornby is arrested for his crimes and as he is dragged out of the building , he swears that he’ll get his revenge.

I have decided not to show Catherine’s grandfather in order to create an enigma around him , we will only hear about him from the other characters.

The cinematography will be shot in black and white in homage to classic film noir, particularly films like The Maltese Falcon and it will help to establish it in the film noir genre, and I want the audience to feel like they are watching something that they are familiar with. 

I will also use 1940’s era terms in my writing to help give the film the feeling that it is set in the past but some of the visuals will hint that the film could be set in the modern day , my inspiration for this is the TV series Riverdale , which looks like it is set in the 1950’s but the characters have access to modern technology.

My favorite film score is from ET (1982, by Steven Spielberg) Not only is the music catchy and lively, but it represents the magical and unique themes within the film. The soundtrack is compromised of 8 tracks, all of which bring something different to the film.

Composer John Williams won his forth academy award from the soundtrack, and although it was classical it blended genres because it represented the variety of themes prominent in the film