'I was directing before I knew it was called that'

The next director I decided to look at was Guillermo Del Toro who has been involoved in films such as Pan's Labyrinth and Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark. Guillermo del Toro was born October 9, 1964 and is a Mexican film director, screenwriter, producer, and novelist. In his filmmaking career, del Toro has alternated between Spanish dark fantasy pieces, such as The Devil's Backbone (2001) and Pan's Labyrinth (2006), and more mainstream American action movies, such as Blade II (2002) and Hellboy (2004).

Del Toro's work is characterised by a strong connection to fairytales and horror, with an effort to infuse visual or poetic beauty.He has a lifelong fascination with monsters, which he considers symbols of great power. Del Toro is known for his use of religious imagery, underworld and clockwork motifs and his dominant amber lighting used throughout all his films. Because of his work involving creatures and fairytale characters I thought he would be a good director to analysis and as a lot of his work has the same genre as ours it helped us to get a good understanding of how we were going to have to portray this genre on camera.