Wednesday, 21 September 2011

Thriller Directors

Alfred Hitchcock
Alfred Joseph Hitchcok was born on August 18th 1899 in Leytonstone, London, England, UK.
His interest in movies began by, frequently visiting the cinema and reading US trade journals.
Lasky were to open a studio in London and managed to secure a job as a title designer. He designed the titles for all the movies made at the studio for the next two years. In 1923, he got his first chance at directing when the director of
Always Tell Your Wife (1923) fell ill and Hitch completed the movie.    
http://movies.toptenreviews.com/directors/reviews/d18440.htmThis was the starting point in Hitchcoks career. He then went on to direct some of  the most  famous thriller films; such as; Rear Window (1954), Psycho (1960), Vertigo (1958) etc.


  Steven Spielberg                                 
 Steven Allan Spielberg was born on 18th December 1946 in         
 Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. Spielberg attended California State
 Long Beach, however he left early to pursue a career inentertainment.
 He recieved a good reputation after he worked as an uncredited 
 assistant editor in the western classic 'Wagon Train' (1957).
 His earlist movie as a director  was Battle Squad (1961) which used  World War II footage of an airplane on the ground, however Speilberg makes the viewer belive the plane is moving.  






 





Friday, 16 September 2011

What makes a good Thriller film

This afternoon in media studies I have been researching 'what makes a good thriller film'. I came across  the website http://www.familyvideos.co.uk/what-makes-good-thriller.html which gave five factors on how to make a good thriller film. They are:

1. Creating a sense of  danger - Creating a character who finds themselves in a dangerous situation.
2. The importance of pace - It should be at a fast pace as it shouldn't waste time.
3. The balance of Power -  Villans power is shifted
4. Twists and turns - Make the audience believe in false security.
5. Character growth - Audience understands all the strengths and weaknesses of the characters including villans