An auteur is a film maker who's style is reflected within their film, and creates a signature, or distinctive auteur status for them. They have a personal, signature style, which helps for them to have creative control over their work. They cannot create a whole production on their own, instead they collaborate with others, and team up with writers, cinematographer and actors , but the directors is still an auteur in a way that they control everyone and everything in the production.
Alfred HitchcockHitchcock is regarded as an auteur. In his films, he frequently addresses violence, murder and psychology. He was concerned with technique through the use of shot size, framing, composition, camera angle, camera movement and focus.
He positioned the camera, so it could mimic a person's gaze, forcing viewers to engage in a form of voyeurism. He framed shots to manipulate the feelings of the audience and maximise their fear, anxiety and empathy.
He composed his shots to emphasise visual details that were significant to the narrative, or sometimes he would insert false ideas into the audience's mind.
His films include Rear Window, Strangers on a Train and The Birds.
Hype Williams
Harold 'Hype' Williams is an American music video and film director. His signature style used is the fisheye lens, distorting the camera view around the central focus. He also placed shots in regular wide screen ratio while a second shot is split and placed in the upper and lower bars.Since 2003, he used a new signature style combining a centre camera focus on the artists body from the torso upward, and a solid color background, with a soft color in the centre of the background, giving a sense of illumination of the background by the foreground subject
His music videos include Empire State of Mind by Jay-Z and Alecia Keys, Viva La Vida by Coldplay and Gold Digger by Kanye West and Jamie Foxx.
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