David Fincher is an American film director known for movies like Se7en (1995), Fight Club (1999), and Panic Room (2002). He began his career directing commercials and music videos. Fincher is known for using stylistic camera techniques like wide shots and low angles to frame crime scenes. He also employs dark, moody lighting with blue or green tones. Fincher often experiments with creative title sequences and end credits that scroll downward rather than upward to set the theme and mood of his thriller films.

1. DAVID
FINCHER
Director

2. About
David Fincher was born in 1962 in Denver. He is
not just well known for his great film directing
but also directing commercials such as Coca
Cola, Nike…. Fincher has even directed music
videos for artists; Madonna, Rolling Stones, and
Michael Jackson.
As a film director, he has achieved huge
success with Se7en (1995), Fight Club (1999)
and, Panic Room (2002). Brad Pit is great friends
with Fincher and is in most of his films.

3. Camera and lighting
Fincher uses a range of shots in his film such as
wide shots, low angles , point of view shots,
these shots are used to show us the surrounding
area or in Seven, the crime scene. Another
camera angle that he uses often is the
stationary shot, unfocused background with
character walking into focus.
All of his film consist of dark lighting as this
represents the genre and the emotions within
the film. His films often have low-key lighting with
green or blue tinted color temperature.

4. Techniques?
Fincher often displays end credits as slide
shows (Fight Club, Zodiac, The Curious Case
of Benjamin Button) or scrolling downward
(Se7en) rather than the traditional upward
scroll. This then gave us an idea for our
credits in our film.

5. Technique and conventions
Frequently starts his movies with creative title
sequences that express the theme of the movie
and are often about trying to find a serial killer.
He film are all typical thriller and have all the
basic codes and conventions. His films are often
very dark and always has characters in the
shadows where you can only see the silhouettes
to show mystery within the film to keep the
audience on edge, you often do not know who
the antagonist is until the very end. Most of his
film often end in a suicide. Some of his film are
even based on true stories.