The Auteur Theory

The Auteur Theory

The Auteur Theory was introduced in the 1950's by various different French Film directors such as François Truffaut, who recommended and supported a focus on the  contribution that directors made on the style and the different forms of a video or a film. An Auteur is a film maker that style and practice is distinct and creates a signature auteur theory status for themselves and by doing this the music video maker defines themselves as a director and makes them selves known, linking to Mark Romanek a very famous music video director that works on creating music videos with a distinct and memorable music videos and this is why he is so famous and also so good at what he does. The audience is the group of people that make their minds up if they like the music video that has been created or if they do not like the music video, if the audience does not like the music video then this can have a very dramatic effect on both the music artists and the music director that created and directed the music video for the music artist. Auteur theory focuses on a number of things such as; Individual stylistic features, How texts are determined by artists creativity and lastly how are texts emerge as part of an artists body of work.