By Proxy is a proposed low-budget horror/thriller film that will use genre conventions like POV shots, fake scares, and a theme of good versus evil. The plot follows Rachel who refuses to believe her brother Matthew died of natural causes and investigates his widow Angela. She discovers a dark side to his supposedly happy marriage while staying with Angela and her daughter Kristina. The film will be directed by Pascal Laugier and target women ages 18-24, filming on location in a suburban house in Hudson, Ohio. It aims to be distributed in UK cinemas through Odeon and in the US through Regal Entertainment Company.
It’s Christmas Day and the Milgram family wakes to find a mysterious black substance surrounding their house. Something monumental is clearly happening right outside their door — but what exactly? Bemused and confused, they turn on the television, desperate for information.
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Intro to Directing
Directing
Considered by many as the “author” or auteur of a film. Auteur originated by French film critics Andre Bazín, and Cahiers du cinema (French New Wave Roehmer, Godard, Truffaut, Rivette, Chabrol).
Andrew Sarris and Auteur Theory
Village Voice film critic
Auteur applies to directors only; limits of theory
"At the moment, my list of auteurs runs something like this through the first twenty: Ophuls, Renoir, Mizoguchi, Hitchcock, Chaplin, Ford, Welles, Dreyer, Rossellini, Murnau, Griffith, Sternberg, Eisenstein, Von Stroheim, Buñuel, Bresson, Hawks, Lang, Flaherty, Vigo.
Three Criteria for Auteur
"The three premises of the auteur theory may be visualized as three concentric circles: the outer circle as technique; the middle circle, personal style; and the inner circle, interior meaning."
Role of director
Oversees or (as the French and Greta Gerwig would have it) realizes the screenplay through shots, performances, editing and sound.
Determines the style, tone, emphasis of the film through shots, performances, editing and sound.
Casts and directs actors
Directs creative crew in production (shooting of the film), primarily cinematographer, production designer and sound. In post-production (editing, visual effects and sound design), directs those crew people.
Decides when to “cut”(end a take, or version of a shot) and “move on” (stop doing takes of a shot or setup, and do a new one). Or When to Stop.
NOT Role of director
Write dialogue, characters, setting or plot. If they do, they get writing credit.
Some will shoot/operate camera (Spielberg, Soderbergh, Liman, Ridley Scott, Von Trier). Very rarely credited.
Oversee business, financial or staffing aspects of the film. If they do, they get producing credit.
Oversee organizational aspects of the film. In the theatre, the director should not also be the stage manager. The director should not be the assistant director or production manager.
Most do not have “final cut” or final say on which edited version of the film is released.
Directing is an entry-level Position
“Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.”
--James Cameron
Get out (2017)
Jordan Peele (Writer/Director)
Peele started as a cast member on Mad TV. Co-showrunner on Key & Peele (with Keegan-Michael Key).
Get Out was his directorial debut. Grossed over $255 million worldwide.
Won Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. Nominated for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya).
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2. Genre and Conventions
By Proxy is a horror/thriller, some codes and genre conventions that will
feature will be:
POV shots and ECU shots will be used throughout the film
Restoration of Justice
Fake scares
Theme of good versus evil
3. Plot
When Matthew dies suddenly his sister Rachel refuses to believe that it was
unexplainable. Staying with his widowed wife Angela, Rachel discovers that
there was a darker side to his ‘happy’ marriage.
4. Key characters
Angela Lowe – Famke Janssen
Kristina Lowe – Joey King
Matthew Lowe – Mark Ruffalo
Rachel Lowe – Kim Rhodes
9. Budget
My film should be fairly low budget
No CGI
Cheap props and makeup
Costumes will be cheap
Location isn’t in high demand
10. Releasing the movie
Odeon cinemas – Release in the UK
Leading cinema positions in UK and Ireland
1.6 million guests visit weekly
Co-owner of Europe’s largest screen advertising company – DCM
Regal Entertainment Company – Release in the USA
7,334 screens in 588 locations in 44 states
Well established – since 1989
220.25 visitors to cinemas in 2014
