Alfred Hitchcock

                                                              Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock was an english film director who was born on the 13th August 1899 and died on 29th april 1980. Some examples of films alfred Hitchcock has made are "Psycho", "The Birds", "Vertigo" and "Rear Window". Alfred Hitchcock liked to be in most of his movies.


The filmography of Alfred Hitchcock encompasses the earliest silent films on which he worked as a title designer through to his last directorial effort in 1976. Hitchcock started his illustrious career in his native Britain, and after achieving success there, he moved to Hollywood, where he made most of his most famous and popular pictures. In 1972, Hitchcock returned to Britain to make frenzy. Some of his work has been compiled into collections, such as the DVD and Blu-ray set The Masterpiece Collection. 

In these early films, Hitchcock was usually credited with the role of title designer. All are now lost films, and all works are in public domain.

These are the films he directed which were british

speed of editing

                                                                Speed of editing

Scenes at the beginning of a film as it begins to tell its story, it must be long enough for us to be able to understand where we are and what is going on. It also slow to introduce the main characters. As the film progresses scenes may become shorter as the editing cuts between different scenes.

Style of editing

• how shots are linked together
• The movement from one shot to the next is called transition

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Sound

                                                                       Sound

There are three main elements or sound in a film.

• Dialogue - e.g A person speaking
• Music - e.g a instrument playing
• Sound effects- e.g Footsteps or door slamming

There are two key terms to divide sounds in film:

• Non Diegetic sound - Sounds from outside the world of film. The characters can't hear the sound.
• Diegetic sound - Sounds from inside the world of film. The characters can hear the sound.

I watched a small clip of a film called "Slumdog Millionaire". During this film I seperated the Diegetic sound from the non Diegetic sound.

Diegetic sound

• Splashing of water
• Breaking of glass

Non Diegetic sound

• Fast tempo of background as the children were running
• Sound being muted as the child was under water
• Women being hit (one of the loudest sounds because that was a main event, children seeing their mother being killed)

Recipe for Thriller (part 2)

                                                          Recipe for Thriller (part 2)

Some examples of resourceful heroes are Harry Potter, Spider Man and Batman. Some examples of powerful heroes are the joker (The Dark Night Returns), Voldemort (Harry Potter), and Pinkie (Brighton Rock).

Devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliffhangers are extensively used. A thriller is a villain driven plot, whereby the presents obstacles the hero must overcome. The genre is flexible and can engage the audience through a dramatic rendering of psychological, social and political tensions. Hitchcock said thrillers allow the audience "to put there toe in the cold water to fear to see what it's like.

Recipe for Thriller

                                           Recipe for Thriller

Thrillers are characterised by fast pacing, frequent action and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains.

There are different types of thrillers. Action thrillers, horror thrillers, and science fiction thrillers. One example of an action thriller is mission impossible. one example of a horror thriller is  Final destination. An example a Syfy thriller is apollo.

Mise-en-scene

                                                                    Mise-en-scene

I have learn't that the costumes, props, lighting and the actors make the term named Mise-en-scene.

The use of Mise-en-scene keeps us on our feet through the whole film. During the beginning of the film a character went in to a phone booth. The phone booth was red therefore this symbolised blood. Therefore this foreshadows the death of someone in that moment in time.  Eventually the man in the phone booth was killed.

Towards the end of the movie in a scene there was a car with its lights on and the lighthouse . Those were the only lights in the whole scene(2:00/2:22) . This shows that there was good versus evil. And because the light was so small, not everyone could be saved. This lead to pinkie's death and Rose being kept alive.

                                           

North By North West (1959)

                                                          North By North West

This film was about a hapless New York advertising executive is mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and is pursued across the country while he looks for a way to survive. The writer is Alfred Hichock and the writer was Ernest Lehman.

Thrillers are characterised by fast pacing action. One example of this is when rodger thornhill

is in a car chase being chased by the people who think he is a man called George Kaplan. Another example of this is when george Kaplan was trying to get away from the police in the train station who were looking for him.

A lot of the time in thrillers, there are resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and equipped villains. I think that in "North By North West" this is true because Kaplan (the hero), saves Eve and stops the plans of Phillip Vandamm (the villain) and his people.

Towards the end of the film there was a cliff hanger, when Roger Thornhill and Eve Kendall were hanging of a cliff.