Director's Brief Part 1 (My Chosen Director)

Intro:

The Director, the most important job when it comes to makes any specific art form of media such as; Film, Television, and some aspects of Theatre.

The the media of film, I have many directors that I admire not only for their work but in the way that they present their work by showing whats known as a voice. A term used to describe the Director's work to show his or her certain style and uniqueness to the film industry.

My Chosen Director:

Peter Jackson

What other work has this Director done?

• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2014
• The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug 2013
• The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 2012
• King Kong 360 3-D (Short) 2010
• The Lovely Bones 2009
• Crossing the Line (Short) 2008/I
• King Kong 2005
• The Lost Spider Pit Sequence (Video short) 2005
• The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 2003
• The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers 2002
• The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring 2001
• The Making of 'The Frighteners' (Video documentary) 1998
• The Frighteners 1996
• Forgotten Silver (TV Movie) 1995
• Heavenly Creatures 1994
• Dead Alive 1992
• Meet the Feebles 1989
• Bad Taste 1987
• The Valley (Short) 1976

List of key stylistic and narrative aspects to the Director's work:

• Background establishing shots (mostly to show where the movie takes place and where it's leading to)
• A sneaky cameo or two (like Stan Lee in the Marvel Films where he usually makes a cameo in some part of the film, Peter Jackson does the same in a few of his.

E.G

The Frighteners (1996) - He makes a cameo dressed up like a punkish tough guy and calls Michel J Fox an asshole.

The Fellowship of The Ring (2001) - Like at the beginning of (The Hobbit - The Desolation of Smaug) he plays a hooded man with a carrot, he did the same in The Fellowship.

The Two Towers (2002) - Peter plays a warrior throwing a spear.

Return of The King (2003) - He plays one of the evil men being shot with one of Legolas's arrows.

• A dark edge - in his past work Peter Jackson had a love for the horror genre for it's goriness and one of his first films he directed was a film called Bad Taste (1987). But the way he twists that genre and makes it his own is how he uses everyday items and turns them into film props and effects to bring life into his films.

E.G - In this shot below, (Return of The King) Aragon is facing a giant Troll in CGI but in one shot the troll is CGI but when it came to the moment when the Troll steps on him, there is a hand made foot in the next shot where Aragon stabs it. For some film makers including Mr Jackson, that is a cleaver and great way to save on a movies budget as CGI was quite expensive.

• Mostly CGI - Andy Circus helped Peter though most of his projects, especially when it came to The Lord of The Ring Trilogy. Andy played the character Gollum in the films and because of the motion capture with a dash of CGI,  the film one best virtual performance in 2003 at the MTV Movie Awards. Andy Circus then appeared in Peter's later work as King Kong in 2005.

• Peter Jacksons Cinematographer - Andrew Lesnie

Andrew Lesnie was Peter Jackson Cinematographer in all three Lord of The Rings films. His cinematography to me was very background worshiping as it mostly consisted of the main characters traveling amongst beautiful backgrounds, here are a few examples for what I think shows some of the best out of Peter's films:

• His attention to detail - costumes and designs

Middle Earth for Lord of The Rings

The Frighteners - with dead people as spirits being all bashed up a covers with blood as to represent how they died.

King Kong - The costumes and setting is to represent the year (1933) the same year that the original King Kong came out.

King Kong (2005)

King Kong (1933)

Why I chose this Director:

Not only for the fact that he has Directed one of my favourite trilogies (The Lord of The Rings) but also the way he is so detected to his work and everyone on set always have a good time working with him. He takes the background of any location and uses it to his advantage to make any shot look the best it can truly be, which in some ways got me inspired to check out other locations in my area to do more films in a more creative way.

What I also admire about him is that even though he likes trying CGI shots for some of his big budget movies, he also likes to take, how he clams to be, the old school routine by using simple methods of film making and turning them into a fantastic piece of work. Return of The King, King Kong and The Hobbit have over 2000 CGI shots but The Fellowship of The Ring only had 550 so most of The Fellowship's creativity was throughout mostly the stunts, costumes, props, as well as standard effects.

But mostly I love the way Peter represents things in his films like for instance, Lord of The Rings sort of because an advertisement itself by showing lots of New Zealand where the film takes place making people from all over the world wanting to go a see the country for themselves.

This became a popular joke in the hit HBO series The Flight of The Concords made in 2007 based on the band itself. In a few episodes they show in an office posters of New Zealand and in one take it show the poster advertising… "New Zealand, It's Like Lord of The Rings".

All in all I think Peter Jackson is a fantastic director and his films have always made a mark in my heart that are here to stay, Lord of The Rings brought my family together and closer than ever before and is still the family favourite to this day. It made my sister to take an adventure all around New Zealand and is still her favourite holiday.

One day I to want to venture forth into the great Middle Earth that is New Zealand, and I some want to create work just like his, and to be just like him.