1. CHRISTOPHER NOLANAuteur Study 2. BACKGROUND Christopher
Jonathan James Nolan was born 30th July 1970. He is a
British-American filmdirector, producer and screenwriter. His nine
movies have grossed over $4 billionworldwide, and have gathered a
total of 21 Oscar nominations and another six awards. In 1998 Nolan
made his directing debut with Following. It was a movie which
hepersonally funded and filmed. It was made with a 3,000 budget. It
won many awardsthroughout its festival run and was released on DVD
on the 11th of December 2012. After the success of Following, he
went on to direct several other movies, such asMemento (2000),
Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight
(2008),Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012) and his most
recent movie, Interstellar(2014). 3. SHOT ANGLES In his movies,
Christopher Nolan uses a variety of shot types throughout his
movies,typically he begins his movies with a close up shot of the
main characters handsperforming an action, or holding
something.Memento: The Dark Knight Rises:The Dark Knight: 4. SHOT
ANGLESInsomnia Nolan also uses many mediumshots of two characters
in the shotto establish what is going on inthat part of the
narrative.The Dark Knight 5. WHAT DO THE FIRST TWO MINUTES OF
THEMOVIES REVEAL ABOUT THE NARRATIVE? The Dark Knight:In the first
minute of the movie opening, after some of the credits are shown,
an establishingshot of the location of where it is set is shown,
following with a close up of a building, as theclose up moves into
an extreme close up the one of the windows of the buildings
shatters, andwe see two men in masks preparing to commit some sort
of act, maybe of an illegal natureconsidering the way it is all set
out. As the opening progresses, we are then shown a longshot of the
back of a man holding a mask and carrying a big bag. He then
proceeds to enter avehicle with two other masked men and they begin
driving off and discussing how much theywill earn from the crime
which they are committing. What the opening sequence reveals
aboutthe narrative of the story is that there is some sort of crime
which is about to be committedand that the robbers are preparing to
do so. 6. WHAT DO THE FIRST TWO MINUTES OF THEMOVIES REVEAL ABOUT
THE NARRATIVE? The Dark Knight Rises:The opening credits of the
movie finish off at minute 01:08, there is a sound bridge of a
manspeaking between the ending of the opening credits and the first
scene. The first scene thendescends to medium-long shot of a man
who seems to be in the law enforcement speakingabout another man
who has recently passed away. The scene then fades from this shot,
into adifferent one, of a car being driven in a field and heading
towards a small aeroplane, where afew men who again, seem to be
part of the military/CIA are awaiting the cars arrival.
Thisconnotes that they are waiting for the men in the car who had
bags over their heads, and fromthis the audience can infer that
they are probably some sort of criminals which havecommitted a
crime and are going to be taken into custody because of it. 7. USE
OF COLOUR IN MOVIES: It is known that Christopher Nolan is red and
green colour-blind. This is why most of hismovies are known for
using more subtle colours such as orange and teal.
