Media studies summer assignment SHAUNA

1. Media Studies Summer Assignment
David Fincher
David Fincher was born 28 August 1962, Denver,
Colorado, USA. David Fincher has directed many
films with the ones he is most known for directing
being The Social Network, Fight Club, Se7en and
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. As well as
films David Fincher has directed TV commercials
and music videos with the TV commercials being
for brands such as Nike, Converse, Budweiser,
Heineken, and Pepsi and the music videos for
Madonna, Sting, Rolling Stones, Michael Jackson
and George Michael.
David Fincher has many trade marks of his films that he has directed with
some of his films being based of real-life events, for example the Social
Network and Zodiac and his films also often show computer hackers with
poor social skills and again one being the social network, with Mark being
the character with poor social and the hacker.
The Social Network, Fight Club and Se7en have many common features that
David Fincher has put into his films, one of which was wide shots
throughout the films I watched creating emphasis on the whole shot not just
a little part of the shot so this gets the audience engaged with all of the
surrounding Fincher puts into his films, he also frequently starts his movies
with a clip which expresses part of the movie and the theme of the movie but
not to be mixed with the title credits as well at the start of the movies, one of
which is in Social Network..
Firstly, the social network is set at Harvard, a university in the USA, with a
computer programming genius Mark sits down to start his new idea of
making ‘the facebook’ with this idea just starting in his school room then
becoming the most global social network site. The genre is biography drama
with some aspects of style conventions in it being at the beginning there is a
starting clip of the film which draws the audience into the film and gives
them a little clip of the film to make them carry on watching the film, there
are then subtle titles of the directors, actors etc and calm background piano
music whilst the titles are still fading in and out of the screen.