Charlie Chaplin

Sir Charles Spencer "Charlie" Chaplin (16 April 1889 – 25 December 1977) was an English comic actor and film director of the silent film era. He became one of the best-known film stars in the world before the end of the First World War. 
His most famous role was that of The Tramp, which he first played in the Keystone comedy Kid Auto Races at Venice in 1914.
Chaplin was one of the most creative and influential personalities of the silent-film era. He was influenced by his predecessor, the French silent movie comedian Max Linder, to who he dedicated one of his films to.
His working life in entertainment spanned over 75 years, from the Victorian stage and the Music Hall in the United Kingdom as a child performer, until close to his death at the age of 88.
George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin "the only genius to come out of the movie industry".

Own Cinemotography

I like this picture because the lines of the red squares draw you to the circle of light and the face the, the light source is from the circle which is shining on everything except the edges of the shot.  and the stair handle is leading towards the light from the door.

I like this picture the lines contrast(clash) also the position of the objects, we see the phone is alone while the over objects are all together. This picture has a lot of lines going in different ways which makes it interesting.

I like this picture because of the lighting and the lines on the lockers. The line of the lockers are drawing attention to the other lines of lockers but the lighting is making you focus on the 1st set of lockers so both of the lines and the lighting is doing the opposite to each other which makes this photo interesting.

I like this photo becuase the lines of the stairs separate the lighting  because where the coins are its dark but the other side of the stairs are bright. The coins that are flat is going the same line direction of the stairs which makes it interesting.

Cinematographer 1

Vittorio Storaro

The award winning cinematographer who won Oscars for “Apocalypse Now” and "The Last Emperor"

He won his first Oscar for the cinematography of "Apocalypse Now," for which director Francis Ford Coppola gave him free rein to design the visual look of the picture.

He won his second Oscar as the director of photography on Warren Beatty's "Reds "

He won his third Oscar as the director of photography on Bertolucci's Best Picture Academy Award-winner "The Last Emperor."

"All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light," Storaro says. "There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colours. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables are what make it an art."

ccording to Storaro, "Some people will tell you that technology will make it easier for one person to make a movie alone but cinema is not an individual art." Storaro disagrees. "It takes many people to make a movie. You can call them collaborators or co-authors. There is a common intelligence.

Cinematographer 2

Roger Deakins

is an English cinematographer best known for his work on the films of the Coen brothers.

He is a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) and the British Society of Cinematographers (BSC).

Deakins received his first major award from the American Society of Cinematographers for his outstanding achievement in cinematography for the internationally praised major motion picture, The Shawshank Redemption.

The ASC continued to honour Deakins with outstanding achievement nominations for his later works, including Fargo, Kundun, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, and The Man Who Wasn't There, for which he won his second ASC Award. In 2008, Deakins became the first cinematographer in history to receive dual ASC nominations for his works, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and No Country for Old Men. The latter won the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography and he received Academy Award nominations for both films.

Roger Deakins has received eight Academy Award nominations for the previously mentioned films, in addition to high praise from critic associations in both America and Britain.

Cinematographer 3

Sven Nykvist

He worked on over 120 films, but is known especially for his work with director Ingmar Bergman. He won Academy Awards for his work on two Bergman films, Cries and Whispers (Viskningar och rop) in 1973 and Fanny and Alexander (Fanny och Alexander) in 1983, and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for The Unbearable Lightness of Being.

His work is generally noted for its naturalism and simplicity. He is considered by many to be one of the greatest cinematographers of all time. Back in Sweden, he began to work with the legendary director Ingmar Bergman in 1953 on Sawdust and Tinsel (released in the US as The Naked Night). He was one of three cinematographers to work on that movie, the others being Gunnar Fischer and Hilding Bladh.

Nykvist would eventually become Bergman's full-time cinematographer and push the director's work in a new direction, away from the theatrical look of his earlier films. He worked as sole cameraman on Bergman's Oscar-winning films The Virgin Spring in 1959 and Through a Glass Darkly in 1960. He revolutionised the way we see close-ups in Bergman's Persona in 1966.

He was the first European cinematographer to join the American Society of Cinematographers, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the ASC in 1996.

Cinematographer 4

Janusz Kaminski

Janusz Zygmunt Kamiński (born June 27, 1959) is a Polish cinematographer and film director. He has photographed all of Steven Spielberg's films since 1993's Schindler's List.

Kamiński twice won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography in the 1990s, for Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan.

He accepted his 2008 Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly.

Kamiński was the first cinematographer to present an Academy Award, which he did at the 2009 ceremony, alongside James Franco and Seth Rogen, presenting the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Kamiński was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) from 1994 until his resignation in 2006.

Story Ideas

Story ideas

1)      Romance – two people from different neighbourhoods love each over while the neighbourhoods are fighting eachover.

2)      Horror – students working late night at school to find the school is not what it seems, a poccessed girl wonders the school at night looking for new people to kill n feast on

3)      Gangster – a man coming out of prison to find that his gang is no gang anymore, he doesn’t own any property no more n isn’t left with any money so he starts from the bottom again and builds his rep up and gets money anyway he can.

4)      Adventure – A man has to get back a precious letter and watch that was his great great grandfathers to find out his past and this was taken away when he was a little kid when he was taken away as a child.

5)      War – A soldier that died in the gulf war and they revived him as a super soldier n erased his memories but then he has flashbacks of his life and finds that the people that built him killed his family and so he seeks revenge.

6)      Drama – a man that was in a severe accident work up from a coma not knowing his past or his family and is willing to do anything to get his memory back.