Chapter 6: Acting

1. There are a mixture of amateur actors and professional stars in my movie.
2. Since John Carpenter was a very young director at the time, he was given alot of advice from the veterans on set.
3. Since the movie was filmed in the span of one month, 21 days to be exact, there wasn't room for alot of cuts and retakes.
4. This movie was the one to give Jamie Lee Curtis her big break, therefore, she is given just as much screen time as her co-star, Donald Pleasence. Although, they aren't in the same scene together until the very end of the movie.
5. The only other movie that I have seen Donald Pleasence in is "Dr. No" as James Bond's enemy, Blofeld. His character in Halloween is quite different than his character in Dr. No. In Halloween he is the protagonist, in Dr. No, he is the antagonist.
6. Some of the acting is stylized, an example of this would be Jamie Lee Curtis's two teenage friends. Other acting, such as Donald Pleasence is very realistic.
7. Donald Pleasence brings his acting experience to his character.

Chapter 9: Writing

1. My movie isn't literary at all.
2. There is one lengthy speech near the middle part of the movie where Donald Pleasence's character, Dr. Sam Loomis, explains his take on Michael Myers.
3. Donald Pleasence seems to be very literate throughout the movie, just because he is the most veteran actor in the movie. He lets us know whats bothering him through words. Jamie Lee Curtis does it through action.
4. My movie was written by both John Carpenter and Debra Hill.
5. The dialogue in my movie is for the most part, stylized.
6. Michael Myers is said, many times throughout the movie, to be the embodiment of pure evil.
7. This idea makes the movie emit a bigger sense of dread and fear.
8. The movie was told from and all-knowing, third person point of view.
9. There is no voice-over narrator in the movie.
10. It is not a literary adaptation.

Cinematographer

Dean Raymond Cundey was born March 12th, 1946 in Alhambra, California. Cundey's work on Halloween is considered by fans to be among his best as cinematographer. He was among the first cinematographers to make use of the steadicam, or panaglide.
He would go on to work with Carpenter on the films: The Fog, Escape from New York, The Thing, Halloween II, and Halloween III. Some of his later works include, Psycho II, Back to the Future trilogy, What Women Want, Apollo 13, Jurassic Park, Romancing the Stone, Roadhouse, Garfield, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, among others. His work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit earned him and Academy Award nomination. Cundey is also a member of the American Society of Cinematographers. He is currently working on a project in Canada that will be released soon.

Introduction

A. I would like to be a mixture of a critic and reviewer.

B. I would also like to use a little of both formalism and realism, if possible.


C. 3 A's

Artist: John Carpenter


Art: Written by John Carpenter and Debra Hill, Cinematography by: Dean Cundey, Editing by: Charles Bornstein and Tommy Lee Wallace


Audience: Mature

Genre: Horror/Thriller
Awards: Critics Award (win), Saturn Award(nominated)
Runtime: 92 mins.
Release date: October 25th, 1978
Tagline: "The night HE came home."