A film director manages the creative aspects of the production. They direct the making of a film by visualizing the script while guiding the actors and technical crew to capture the vision for the screen. They control the film’s dramatic and artistic aspects.
Directors start with a script, and work with a screenwriter and sometimes a script editing team. It’s not uncommon for the director to be the screenwriter as well. It is the job of a director to imagine the script in a visual form.
Directors are the creative leads of the film. They hold the creative vision throughout the whole process, from pre-production through to the final edit. They are employed by the executive producer or producer, who is ultimately in charge of a production.
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Coppola is famous for being the daughter of renowned director Francis ford Coppola she is a director and an actress with her first role being in one of her dads films; the godfather.
Coppola has a command of film form that lends itself to recreating interior experience, to conjuring a tangible and affecting sense of mood and emotion through the everyday. Long takes, close-ups and languorous camera movements involve us in the moments of her characters’ lives, while still keeping some distance.
Orson Welles
A style closely associated with gritty mystery and crime drama films produced from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. Along with contrasting light and dark for dramatic effect, Welles pioneered the use of deep-focus cinematography—presenting all objects in a shot in sharp detail.
Orson Welles began his career as a stage actor before going on to radio, creating his unforgettable version of H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds. In Hollywood, he left his artistically indelible mark with such works as Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons.