Realizer

A realizer (or a director ) is a person who ensures the direction of manufacture of a audio-visual work collected by one or more Caméra S, generally for the cinema or television. Starting from a scenario, it determines the visual and dramatic aspects film. During turning, it ensures the setting in scene, the direction of actors and directs the engineering team. According to the terms of its contract, it will direct or not the assembly from there. It is the most frequent case in Europe, less in the United States; it has the " then; final cut".

Employee by the production, the realizer must ensure the good walk of turning. It is with him to respect the diary and the budget assigned by the production.

Today, the profession of realizer is exerted in many fields:

feature-length films and short films of fiction (cinema or television)
the documentary ones and films animalist
cartoon films
the experimental films (which approach the visual arts)
the commercials
films of audio-visual communication
the direct one on television (sport, entertainment…)

Realizer of fictions

Attributions of the realizer

Attributions of the realizer are complex. According to the projects, they include inter alia:

During the preparation of the project

the definition of the artistic orientations of the Film;
the follow-up of the Scenario;
sequence division of the scenario in plans (axes of Taken sights and framing);
the organization and selection of the places where the turning of film must take place;

During turning

direction of Actrice S and Acteur S, so much physical (placement), that dramatic (your, expression, movement);
the assumption of responsibility of the choices related to the Camera, position, tallies, movement, etc;
the choice of the luminous environment (with the Director of the photography);
the respect of the budget and assigned times.
Any other activity which defines the artistic, technical choices operated for a film, and in particular the management of the team of turning.

In post-production

the supervision of the Assembly;
choices related on the band its and the music;

In practice, the realizer delegates to the technicians of his team the implementation of the general orientations which it lays down.

A realizer is responsible for the creative aspects of film, as of the management of the executives of the team of turning which it will direct: the Director of the photography, the decoration, the Cameraman or the operator of catch his. He coordinates the efforts of the various trades using one or several assistants.

Methods of realization

The rights of the realizer vary much according to films. Several of them are under the control of the team of production. But, more and more, the realizers have a considerable capacity on a film set. This process was especially visible only during the Années 1930 until the Années 1950.

There exist also realizers who have an extended capacity, and who carry out their artistic vision on a turning. Here their methods:

They create a general dramatic structure, leaving with the actor the choice of his words. One finds among these realizers Christopher Guest, Spike Lee or Robert Altman.
They control all the aspects of turning: dialogs, movements, catches of sights. One speaks about Politique of the authors.
They write their clean Scénario as a Scénariste to be able to be implied in the history. Among those, one finds Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Charlie Chaplin, Billy Wilder, Pedro Almodóvar, Kevin Smith, Quentin Tarantino, Oliver Stone, Hayao Miyazaki, Mr. Night Shyamalan and Robert Rodriguez.
They always engage same the Scénariste to ensure itself to know the style of writing, and the environment of the history. Here several international associations: Wes Anderson and Owen Wilson with Noah Baumbach, Martin Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi with Paul Schrader, or Robert Zemeckis with Bob Scale.
the realizer is at the same time chief operator and Monteur like Steven Soderbergh, Don Coscarelli, and Robert Rodriguez
the realizer is also Acteur, often for a small role. One notices Martin Scorsese, Orson Welles, Zach Braff, Mel Brooks, Mel Gibson, Kevin Costner, Woody Allen, Alfred Hitchcock, Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Mr. Night Shyamalan, Harold Ramis, or Edward Davis Wood Junior.

The realizer can also narrowly work in partnership with the producing of film, generally responsible for the nonartistic aspects of film, like the financing and the Marketing of the film.
Several realizers invest themselves often more on turning, by entrusting fuller responsibilities. Orson Welles, for example, is famous for its writing, its realization and its production. Others, like Alice Guy Blaché, pionnière of the Silent film, even created to them production company.

Organizations

With the the United States, the majority of the realizers are registered with the Directors Guild off America, a trade union protecting the royalties from the realizers. There off exists also a Canadian equivalent, named Directors Guild Canada.
A realizer beginner could gain nearly 20000 [[USD $]] per annum, whereas a famous realizer touches nearly 500000 [[USD $]] by film, even of the million in certain cases.

Director, realizer or scenario writer

In the French-speaking Country S, this term was very discussed at its origin. During the Years 1910 and 1920, everyone tried to differentiate the Cinéma from the Théâtre, and thus several terms were created to appoint the leader of a turning. Riccioto Canudo then proposed ecranist , but this word, not very pleasant with the ear, was quickly rejected by the people. At this point in time Louis Delluc invents the word Cinéaste which took little by little its place in the vocabulary of the Cinéma

3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure of the trades of the image and the sound
3Ecole Nationale Sup3erieure Louis Lumière
Université of Toulouse
Université of Bordeaux
Université of Poitiers
Université of Paris

There also exists of many private schools which propose a formation with the realization, but the cost of the studies is high.

However, most of the realizers becomes it while passing by various stations such as that of the Assistant realizer, or the Director of the photography.

Competences

The every day, on a turning, a realizer is confronted with heavy responsibilities in front of the producing for film. That requires to be a diplomat, and to have a great nervous endurance.

Moreover, the realizer must know methods of catch of sights and sound, setting in scene, and authority.

A capacity of analysis is also paramount during turning, for the placement of the Acteur S, the Caméra, or the management of time.

Anecdotes

Realizers like Anthony Minghella, Paul Greengrass, or Ken Loach, Sydney Lumet, Steven Spielberg initially passed by the Télévision before turning for the Cinéma.

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