Movie Authors

After reading Mondays reading assignment, I found out something new. According to the reading, if you really looked at a movie it was a like a novel but what I didn’t know was that if you tried to give the movie an author you couldn’t. Think about it for a second think of the credits rolling after you favorite movie do you see all those names, there is the director, the background person, the clothing person, the cameraman, the special effects person, the actors, the stunt doubles, and the writers, in their own way they affected the movie. By them affecting the move the partly become the author of the movie. Each and everyone of the of the writers make the plot and the story line for the movies but it is all the other people that make this come to life. The director makes sure everyone stays in their role perfectly and makes sure the scenes go perfect, while the cameraman is the one who makes all this visible and gets the best angle for every shot. But don’t forget the actors they are the ones that bring the writers characters to life. In a scary movie in most mugging or murder scenes the background is usually a dark ally late at night, why because it sets the mood making everything better, the camera angle, the actors feel and emotion for the scene, it has a big effect. I mean it was just amazing to me to see all those peoples name run down that screen at the end of a move, but I guess that if you had to give a movie an author it may well be 200 people, everyone involved had an impact on it so in a way they all were the authors. I guess you see something different and learn something new everyday.