Unit 26: learning A Task 2 BY Navin Wijesiri

Who are auteurs? An auteur is a filmmaker whose individual style and complete control over all elements of production give a film its personal and unique stamp, and style.

Examples of auteurs Alfred Hitchcock Steven Spielberg Wes Anderson Hayao Miyazaki

Hayao miyazaki was born January 5, 1941, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Miyazaki is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist. Miyazaki began his animation career in 1963, when he joined Toei Animation. His first movie was The Castle of Cagliostro (1979) Miyazaki is funded by Studio Ghibli, a world famous Japanese filming company. His most famous animated film is spirited away (2001)

Spirited away Spirited away was classified as miyazaki’ greatest achievement. Miyazaki wrote the script after he decided the film would be based on his friend, associate producer Seiji Okuda's ten-year-old daughter, who came to visit his house each summer. At the time, Miyazaki was developing two personal projects, but they were rejected. With a budget of US$19 million, production of Spirited Away began in During production, Miyazaki realized the film would be over three hours long and decided to cut out several parts of the story. Pixar director John Lasseter, a fan of Miyazaki, was approached by Walt Disney Pictures to supervise an English-language translation for the film's North American release. Lasseter hired Kirk Wise as director and Donald W. Ernst as producer of the adaptation. Screenwriters Cindy Davis Hewitt and Donald H. Hewitt wrote the English-language dialogue, which they wrote to match the characters' original Japanese-language lip movements. The film was released on July 20, 2001, and became the most successful film in Japanese history, grossing about $330 million worldwide and receiving widespread critical acclaim. The film overtook Titanic (at the time the top grossing film worldwide) in the Japanese box office to become the highest-grossing film in Japanese history with a ¥30.4 billion total. Spirited Away frequently ranks among the greatest animated films. It won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature at the 75th Academy Awards, the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival (tied with Bloody Sunday) and is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14.

Collage of Hayao miyazaki

Similarities One similarity is that they all have the main character in an animation state. Most of the title names are on the bottom of the poster. The characters are all centred to present the main character to the audience. Most of the posters use vibrant and nature colours.

Video clips Ponyo trailer bdiE bdiE The wind rises trailer OB6Q OB6Q

Video similarities All the trailers contain series of nature, and presents life's difficulties and the hardship involved. They also are very colourful to attract children as the movies are aimed at children.