Auteur

An Auteur is a filmaker usually the director whose movies are characterized by a filmaker's creative influence. Auteurs often start the conventions of genre, but do not follow them. They have their own personal language with creative control and like artists produce their own original work.

The technical competence of the director is early cinema was story telling in the silent era. Conveying a story is hard today without the lack of dialogue and sound. The directer would also need to think about the expressionist lighting, use of subjective camera and the use of the dolly zoom. A lot of directers used clever montage's with cutting in order to create tension in the usual production code.

Directors vary from style to style, what makes these styles different are the expressionism of the director and the form that evoke emotion from the audience. How the story is told often separates directors from their styles, if the narrative is often visual rather than told through dialogue. How the director builds suspense or not and the Cameo appearances of the directer