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34-425: (Redirected from Thorndyke ) Thorndike or Thorndyke may refer to: People [ edit ] Andrew Thorndike (1909–1979), a German film director Ashley Horace Thorndike (1871–1933), an American educator Augustus Thorndike (1896–1986), an American physician Edward Thorndike (1874–1949), a behavioral psychologist Elizabeth Thorndike (1632–1672),

68-473: A film school to get a bachelor's degree studying film or cinema. Film students generally study the basic skills used in making a film. This includes, for example, preparation, shot lists and storyboards, blocking, communicating with professional actors, communicating with the crew, and reading scripts. Some film schools are equipped with sound stages and post-production facilities. Besides basic technical and logistical skills, students also receive education on

102-598: A British actor and novelist, brother of Sybil Thorndike Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976), a British actress W. L. Thorndyke, perpetrator of the Maggie Murphy hoax Fictional characters [ edit ] Dr. Thorndyke , a fictional detective in novels by R. Austin Freeman Chris Thorndyke , a human boy in the Sonic X anime television series Key Thorndyke, fictional newspaper magnate in

136-405: A film eventually becomes realized or noticed. Directors need to be able to mediate differences in creative visions and stay within the budget . There are many pathways to becoming a film director. Some film directors started as screenwriters , cinematographers , producers , film editors or actors. Other film directors have attended film school. Directors use different approaches. Some outline

170-485: A flat fee for the project, as a weekly salary, or as a daily rate. A handful of top Hollywood directors made from $ 133.3 million to $ 257.95 million in 2011, such as James Cameron and Steven Spielberg , but the average United States film directors and producers made $ 89,840 in 2018. A new Hollywood director typically gets paid around $ 400,000 for directing their first studio film. The average annual salary in England

204-400: A general plotline and let the actors improvise dialogue, while others control every aspect and demand that the actors and crew follow instructions precisely. Some directors also write their own screenplays or collaborate on screenplays with long-standing writing partners. Other directors edit or appear in their films or compose music score for their films. A film director's task is to envisage

238-551: A recent trend of more attention to women directors in India, brought on partly by Amazon and Netflix moving into the industry. Of the movies produced in Nollywood , women direct only 2%. There are many different awards for film directing, run by various academies , critics associations , film festivals , and guilds . The Academy Award for Best Director and Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Director are considered among

272-403: A way to translate a screenplay into a fully formed film, and then to realize this vision. To do this, they oversee the artistic and technical elements of film production. This entails organizing the film crew in such a way to achieve their vision of the film and communicating with the actors. This requires skills of group leadership, as well as the ability to maintain a singular focus even in

306-520: A yearly salary from ¥4 million to ¥10 million, and the Directors Guild of Japan requires a minimum payment of ¥3.5 million. Korean directors make 300 million to 500 million won for a film, and beginning directors start out making around 50 million won. A Korean director who breaks into the Chinese market might make 1 billion won for a single film. According to a 2018 report from UNESCO ,

340-740: Is a film criticism concept that holds that a film director's film reflects the director's personal creative vision, as if they were the primary "auteur" (the French word for "author"). In spite of—and sometimes even because of—the production of the film as part of an industrial process, the auteur's creative voice is distinct enough to shine through studio interference and the collective process. Some film directors started as screenwriters , film editors , producers , actors , or film critics , as well as directing for similar media like television and commercials. Several American cinematographers have become directors, including Barry Sonnenfeld , originally

374-583: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Andrew Thorndike Andrew Thorndike (30 August 1909 – 14 December 1979) was a German documentary film director . He directed 16 films between 1949 and 1977. His 1950 documentary, Der Weg nach oben , won the Best Documentary Film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1951. He

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408-738: Is £50,440, in Canada is $ 62,408, and in Western Australia it can range from $ 75,230 to $ 97,119. In France, the average salary is €4000 per month, paid per project. Luc Besson was the highest paid French director in 2017, making €4.44 million for Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets . That same year, the top ten French directors' salaries in total represented 42% of the total directors' salaries in France. Film directors in Japan average

442-584: The British Board of Film Classification . Thorndike had his own production unit at DEFA, which was consolidated with DEFA-Gruppe 67 (DEFA-Group 67) in 1968, with Thorndike as the head of this project. During this time he founded the East German Film and Television Workers Guild which he remained in charge of until his death. Film director The film director gives direction to the cast and crew and creates an overall vision through which

476-526: The 1948 film State of the Union (film) Peter Thorndyke, villain in the 1968 film The Love Bug Dr. Richard Thorndyke, main character in the 1977 film High Anxiety Places [ edit ] Thorndike, Maine , a town in the United States Other [ edit ] Kennedy–Thorndike experiment Thorndyke (TV series) , a 1964 BBC television series Topics referred to by

510-1123: The Berlin/Brandenburg TV station RBB (Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting) and ARTE . In recent decades American directors have primarily been coming out of USC , UCLA , AFI , Columbia University , and NYU , each of which is known for cultivating a certain style of filmmaking. Notable film schools outside of the United States include Beijing Film Academy , Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica in Mexico City, Dongseo University in South Korea, FAMU in Prague, Film and Television Institute of India , HFF Munich , La Fémis in Paris, Tel Aviv University , and Vancouver Film School . Film directors usually are self-employed and hired per project based on recommendations and industry reputation. Compensation might be arranged as

544-528: The Coen brothers' Director of Photography; Wally Pfister , cinematographer on Christopher Nolan 's three Batman films made his directorial debut with Transcendence (2014). Despite the misnomer, assistant director has become a completely separate career path and is not typically a position for aspiring directors, but there are exceptions in some countries such as India where assistant directors are indeed directors-in-training. Many film directors have attended

578-669: The Farm), in 1942. During the war, Thorndike turned against the Nazi government and was accused of anti-government activities. He was forced into the German army and sent to the Eastern Front, where he was captured and taken to Russia as a prisoner of war in 1945. Upon his return to East Germany in 1948, he took a job with the state-run film studio DEFA , where he produced many propaganda films. His 1950 documentary, Der Weg nach oben ,

612-763: The German People), he crossed into West Berlin and was subsequently arrested in March 1953. Thorndike was charged with aiding and abetting treason. His arrest created tensions between East and West Germany before he was released by the West German government. East German master spy Markus Wolf claims that until the time of his arrest in Berlin, Thorndike was an operative for the East German Foreign Intelligence Service and that

646-749: The agency was trying to create inroads in Hamburg 's economic and political spheres through him. An East German newspaper claimed that the Thorndikes' 1956 documentary, Du und mancher Kamerad (You and Some Comrades), was positively received in the UK. The film was banned in West Germany and remained so some years after its release. Two of the couple's later films, Holiday on Sylt from 1957 and Operation Teutonic Sword from 1958, were banned in Britain by

680-422: The director ensures that all individuals involved in the film production are working towards an identical vision for the completed film. The set of varying challenges they have to tackle has been described as "a multi-dimensional jigsaw puzzle with egos and weather thrown in for good measure". It adds to the pressure that the success of a film can influence when and how they will work again, if at all. Generally,

714-435: The director works with the editor to edit the material into the director's cut . Well-established directors have the " final cut privilege ", meaning that they have the final say on which edit of the film is released. For other directors, the studio can order further edits without the director's permission. The director is one of the few positions that requires intimate involvement during every stage of film production . Thus,

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748-478: The film industry throughout the world has a disproportionately higher number of male directors compared to female directors, and they provide as an example the fact that only 20% of films in Europe are directed by women. 44% of graduates from a sample of European films schools are women, and yet women are only 24% of working film directors in Europe. However only a fraction of film school graduates aspire to direct with

782-776: The founders of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, brother of Herbert Thorndike John Lowell Thorndike (1926–2020), an American purveyor of music and non-profit organizations, president of the Harvard Club of Boston John Thorndike , (b. 1942), an American writer Joseph J. Thorndike (1913–2005), an American editor and writer Lynn Thorndike (1882–1965), an American historian, brother of Ashley Horace Thorndike Robert L. Thorndike (1910–1990), an American psychologist, son of Edward Thorndike Robert M. Thorndike (born 1943), an American psychologist, son of Robert L. Thorndike Russell Thorndike (1885–1972),

816-472: The majority entering the industry in other roles. In Hollywood, women make up only 12.6 percent of film directors, as reported by a UCLA study of the 200 top theatrical films of 2017, but that number is a significant increase from 6.9% in 2016. As of 2014, there were only 20 women in the Directors Guild of Japan out of the 550 total members. Indian film directors are also greatly underrepresented by women, even compared to other countries, but there has been

850-548: The nature of professional relationships that occur during film production. A full degree course can be designed for up to five years of studying. Future directors usually complete short films during their enrollment. The National Film School of Denmark has the student's final projects presented on national TV. Some film schools retain the rights for their students' works. Many directors successfully prepared for making feature films by working in television. The German Film and Television Academy Berlin consequently cooperates with

884-415: The position of film director is widely considered to be a highly stressful and demanding one. It has been said that "20-hour days are not unusual". Some directors also take on additional roles, such as producing, writing or editing. Under European Union law, the film director is considered the "author" or one of the authors of a film, largely as a result of the influence of auteur theory . Auteur theory

918-407: The restrictions of the film's budget and the demands of the producer and studio (such as the need to get a particular age rating ). Directors also play an important role in post-production . While the film is still in production, the director sends " dailies " to the film editor and explains their overall vision for the film, allowing the editor to assemble an editor's cut . In post-production,

952-469: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Thorndike . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Thorndike&oldid=1223057340 " Categories : Disambiguation pages Disambiguation pages with surname-holder lists Hidden categories: Short description

986-616: The second wife of John Proctor, daughter of John Thorndike Frances Cope (1902–1982), née  Elizabeth Frances Thorndike , an American mathematician, daughter of Edward Thorndike Guillermo Thorndike (1940–2009), a Peruvian journalist and writer Helen Louise Thorndyke, pseudonym for the multiple authors of the Honey Bunch book series Herbert Thorndike (1598–1672), an English academic and clergyman Israel Thorndike (1755–1832), an American sailor, merchant, and politician John Thorndike (settler) (1611/12–1668), one of

1020-403: The sole superiors of the director are the producers and the studio that is financing the film, although sometimes the director can also be a producer of the same film. The role of a director differs from producers in that producers typically manage the logistics and business operations of the production, whereas the director is tasked with making creative decisions. The director must work within

1054-477: The stressful, fast-paced environment of a film set. Moreover, it is necessary to have an artistic eye to frame shots and to give precise feedback to cast and crew, thus, excellent communication skills are a must. Because the film director depends on the successful cooperation of many different creative individuals with possibly strongly contradicting artistic ideals and visions, they also need to possess conflict-resolution skills to mediate whenever necessary. Thus

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1088-538: Was a member of the jury at the 5th Moscow International Film Festival . At the 11th Moscow International Film Festival in 1979, he was awarded the Honorable Prize for his contribution to cinema. Thorndike was related to a Mayflower family who had settled in the United States. He grew up in a wealthy family on an estate in Senzig, outside of Berlin, the son of an advertising executive. Thorndike's father

1122-616: Was his first feature-length film. A scathing critique of western involvement and economic-social problems in Western Germany in the post-war years, it won the Best Documentary Film at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1951. Also in 1950, Thorndike met Annelie Kungik, a former schoolteacher, through their mutual work in films. He began collaborating with her and the two were married in 1953. After their marriage, Annilie began co-directing films with her husband. While at work on Stalin und das deutsche Volk (Stalin and

1156-534: Was on the board of Krupp . He received commercial training before becoming an employee of Ufa in 1931. Thorndike quickly became head of the firm's advertising film division. Thorndike began working for the Supreme Command of the German Army and Navy beginning in 1941, where his job was to produce military training films. He also directed a documentary for Ufa, Die Herrin des Hofes (Mistress of

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