The creators of motion pictures
The cover of a best-selling book about movie directors (from Amazon-UK).
This post will particularly be talking about moviemakers, filmmakers, film directors – or any other associated term on it – obviously. Yup, the ones behind the motion pictures, to be sure.
Well, for me, I guess this kind of profession was once one of my dreaming jobs (or maybe it still is). What I mean by “once” is when I was at a younger but-not-so-young age. To talk more about it, I’ve tried directing a couple of stage parody-cabarets though – when I was in my previous college and at a workplace’s project with some teenagers – but of course it’s something quite different in terms of the meanings, or ways of doing it. And it [cabaret directing] doesn’t even use cameras.
Anyway (back to the topic), according to Wikipedia and based on a dictionary definition, a film director “is a person who directs the making of a film … visualises the script, controlling a film’s artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the technical crew and actors in the fulfilment of their vision”.
As this profession is one of “the big ones”, of course it requires a high-level of responsibility and certain skills. Event the basic ones [of the skills] would be better achieved through specific courses, I believe. Nevertheless, it is such a famous profession, with great names to admire for many people, or perhaps to get some inspirations of.
Many lists of great movie directors are available out there. To name a few, here are for example, a list of 40 best in the Guardian, 25 most influential on Moviemaker, or lists of a hundred of them from Total Film magazine. Even Yahoo also has its own huge list of the names – without tagging it “the greatest” or “the best”, while the Oscar database can be a good reference as well.
