
Filmmaking is a very expressive form of art, but it is an art only few can master. The film is a product of a director's vision, if the directors can manage to interact with their audience and evoke the right emotions it means they have succeeded at their job. Throughout the history of cinema, there are reputed directors who have made a mark of their excellent filmmaking skills that inspire young filmmakers, In today’s blog we will discuss them to help you learn the craft of filmmaking!
Alfred Hitchcock

Every filmmaker has heard of Hitchcock; if you haven't, what world are you living in? Hitchcock was all about creating nail-biting suspense. He believed in keeping the audience interested by crafting suspenseful moments that made them suffer. His work aimed to put people on the edge of their seats.
From Hitchcock, there's a lot to learn. One of his most valuable teachings is the connection between information and suspense. He showed the audience what the characters were unaware of, and he reminded them of the looming danger to continuously build up the suspense level.
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese is a well-known name in the film world, Martin gave us classic hits such as “The Last Waltz”, “Raging Bull” or the masterpiece “Taxi Driver”. Younger filmmakers have been studying at his feet trying to figure that out how does Martin Scorsese direct a movie for more than four decades. However, one thing that is very evident in Martin Scorsese films is that his characters are not perfect people. He believes in having characters that are not all good or all bad, but rather characters with deeply human flaws.

According to Martin Scorsese part of the effect that comes from this is you connect with the characters much more than you might in films where the character is never seen as wrong or flawed. If your hero is constantly fighting a bad guy, you’ll assume every action they carry out is somehow justified. Which is why Martin Scorsese is very quick to qualify the violence in his films as being “unpleasant” and that the characters in his films who are violent often “reap what they sow.” Audience love nothing more than being able to connect with the character.
Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino has given us some of the remarkable cinematic pieces such as Kill Bill & 2019 hit “Once upon a time in Hollywood”. Its safe to say that one of the main reason he is seen as one of the most i most influential directors of our generation is that his films never simply have a just single iconic moment.

Quentin Tarantino is well known for using violence in his films. According to him, violence is just as crucial as the car chase, the passionate love scene and even Donen’s classic musical number in the rain. One thing film makers can learn from Tarantino is his ability to use the psychology of suspense, Tarantino is known for toying with the audience for the maximum amount of time before creating an explosion in the moment of climax; The employs the notion of taking pleasure in violence which can be seen in his movies.
Woody Ellen
You cannot talk about influential filmmakers and not mention Woody Allen is America’s most fascinating and iconic filmmakers. What may surprise you is for years the evidence has accumulated: Allen is an astonishingly lazy director.

He is also described as “an actor’s director”—code for the reality that he offers his performers little or no guidance and tries to complete every scene in as few takes as possible. He even described himself as “I’m lazy and an imperfectionist,” in a 2015 NPR interview.
So what can we learn from woody Allen?
Don’t be afraid to break the rules, stated by Allen in an interview “I would obey none of the filmmaking rules. I wouldn't care if people were facing the same direction, if they crossed the 180 degree axis of symmetry, if things matched or didn't match, cutting away whenever I wanted, etc.
There is always something to learn from people around us, you cannot be the best version of yourself without absorbing the knowledge around you. So next time you watch a film take notes!
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