Auteur theory

The term auteur originates from France which translates as author, which also means that a director's film reflects their creative vision. The Auteur theory was introduced in the 1950s by French film directors like Francois Truffaut who advocated a focus on the contribution directors made on the style and form of film, he quoted...

"A true auteur is someone who brings something genuinely personal to his subject instead of producing a tasteful, accurate but lifeless rendering of the original material"

An auteur is a film maker whose style and practise is distinctive which creates a signature status for them. It is also a film maker who has a personal, signature style and keeps creative control over his or her work. making any film or in this case a short film where the director is the auteur but it would not be possible for them to create the whole production on their own, instead they collaborate with others and team up with, writers, cinematographers and actors, however, the director is still an auteur in a sense that they everyone and everything in the production.

The auteur theory is good for thinking about erectors and your own approach, it also draws our attention towards what is different between film, rather than what is similar. 

Auteur theory focuses on...

• Individual stylistic features
• How texts are determined by artist' creativity
• How texts emerge as part of an artists body of work.
• The product of an individuals imagination 
• Film as art, not just a piece of entertainment 

Jean Luc Goddard - "your camera movements are ugly because your subjects are bad, your casts act badly because your dialogue is worthless; in a word, you don't know how to create cinema because you no longer know what it is"

I agree with Goddard, as I feel that someone can't simply make a film or a short film just by watching films and learning from them. They have to have some sort of creative aspect about them with an open mind in order to even come up with that initial idea in the first place. 

Overall, I feel as though I have used the auteur theory really well as I have been creative as a filmmaker by having the subject matter about bullying which is something serious. Although it is not a personal subject matter as I have not gone through this myself neither the bully or victim, however, I feel that I have portrayed my own opinions of bullying. The short film ends on a disequilibrium where nothing is solved and I feel that the not so happy ending was a more realistic approach to the situation and that my target audience are more likely to walk away with an opinion of their own. Whereas if the situation was solved and the bullying stopped by the end of the film, the audience may walk away feeling satisfied which defeats the idea of the films purpose and main message that I want to get across.