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 * My Memory:** Due to my very very boring life, there aren't any very unique memories I have so for the sake of not making a horribly boring film, I will over dramatize my 7 year old birthday. What really happened was my dad had led me on a sort of treasure hunt on the day of my birthday throughout town. With little clues here and there as to where my treasure laid (birthday present). I (mostly from the help of my dad) eventually made it to a bowling alley at a nearby mall where there was a surprise party waiting for me.

In my over dramatized version, I will take on the personality of Graysmith (Zodiac) and figure out where my treasure is detective style. Instead of my dad guiding me, it will be my made up friend who is only in my head (Tyler Durden) and I won't notice this until the end.

This "underlines" a certain scene that it is important to the story. Also specifically with Fincher's films, a pan in to a close up adds suspense and mystery as there is often flashbacks and images that are shown on screen as the camera pans in on someone. || • When Nicholas Van Orton is in his car and the camera slowly pans in on him revealing what he is thinking. A little boy is running and sees a very mysterious figure on top of a building which accomplishes Fincher's intended use of a close up (the mystery aspect) || //The Game// || The film will start off with me in current day when one of my friends ask me if I have any good stories to tell. The camera slowly pans in on me and I have my flashback. || subtly. Even though he had the power of CGI at with a lot of his films, he only used CGI in such a way that worked with the story as opposed to forcing it into it. He uses CGI to emphasize on certain points of a film || •There is a 180 rotation of the camera around The Narrator's head in Fight Club when he shoots himself. The shot was in slow motion and we can see the muzzle flash light up in The Narrator's mouth and showing his veins (in his cheeks) as he shoots himself. The reason why Fincher used CGI for this shot was to emphasize on what The Narrator had done which was to kill Tyler Durden and win his own internal fight which had plagued him throughout the movie. || //Fight Club// || I won't be using CGI because...well, I can't. I will still use color correcting which is a very distinctive feature of Fincher's editing. I might use a dark blueish tone as seen with the beginning of Se7en when its raining because using Yellowish color correcting might be a little too warm. || face implementation. He is willing to spend countless hours producing CGI face implementations to further develop his plot and it also adds this very strong sense of realism derived from the skillfully implemented CGI. || •Benjamin Button's face (Age) || //The Curious Case// //of Benjamin Button// ||  || This allows Fincher to isolate what he wants to focus on and the way he manipulates the lighting on set definitely adds to the mysterious and dark theme that comes up with a lot of his movies. || •In Zodiac, Fincher uses 2 overhead light bulbs for lighting for the basement scene with Mr. Vaughn. He manipulates this in a way that really engages the horror and dark theme because at one point, Mr. Vaughn's bulb goes out and all we can see is Graysmith but no Mr. Vaughn. Scary... || //Zodiac// || It will be well lit but I want there to be a lot of overhead lights for the main actor's face to be kind of shadowed and secret looking. || suspense music implemented whatsoever. Fincher instead used the steaming tea kettle to increase suspense from the shrieking noise. || •//Zodiac// || Ominous music to achieve suspense at necessary times like when I'm walking up to the bowling alley. || a very dark and mysterious mood. He likes to have establishing shots of a neighborhood or city which are usually very run down in Fincher's movies. || •When The Narrator is walking to his rehab groups, there are many shots showing the dysfunctional and run down city. • The opening scene of Se7en is of Mills walking through a very run down neighbor hood while its raining. The color correcting also helped bring about that very dark and mysterious mood. || //•Fight Club// •Se7en ||  || theme of dual identities and how they conflict a lot. Even when there aren't dual identities, self conflict is still very evident theme || **Dual identities+ Self Conflict** •The Narrator and Tyler Durden •Graysmith's family identity and his investigator identity
 * || **Techniques, Styles, & Iconic Examples**
 * that your director would be known for** || **Examples** || **Films** || **My Film** ||
 * **Cinematography** || Slow pan inward to close ups of people's faces.
 * **Editing** || Fincher has been known to edit his films very
 * **Editing** || Fincher is also rather famous for the use of CGI
 * **Lighting** || Dark environments with single sources of lights.
 * **Sound** || Background music as opposed to implemented music. || The film Zodiac had some very scary scenes that had no
 * **Mise-en-scene** || Fincher uses his setting very skillfully to implement
 * **Theme** || In most of his films, there seems to be this recurring

• Mills in Se7en. He is conflicted at the end to avenge his wife and loose or let John Doe survive but not avenge his wife. • Benjamin Button's decision to leave his family in order for them to lead a normal life or stay with them as he loves them more than anything in the world. || //•Fight Club// //•Zodiac// //•Se7en// //•The Curious Case// //of Benjamin Button// || The theme of dual identities will be addressed with the made up friend. I will implement some sort of self- conflict with this friend later on in the script. ||
 * Self Conflict**