How does having different directors change a film, considering they would be following the same script?
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First, go watch this one minute trailer about Disney’s Mary Poppins movie, recast as a horror film.
A director chooses the camera angles, helps choose the music, costumes, changes the pacing of the scene, decides tone and framing, can decide about things like special effects and filters, scene composition, etc. What elements are in the scene? Do you want to add thematic imagery in the background? For example, the Xmen2 movie has a lot of shots with Xavier and Magneto (Protagonist and antagonist) and the scenes are laid out so that you get a sense of balance – one wears a dark suit, the other wears a white suit. The background is balanced, with an identical plant on either side of them. This visually conveys – without scripted words or actions – a strong sense of “these characters are two sides of the same coin, they have radically different viewpoints, but they care very much about the same things” – And this is conveyed visually without them having to actually go out and say it. This is a good example of show, not tell. Film is very much a visual media, and a director’s vision influences the entire film.
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