Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock was born on the 13th of August 1899, and died on the 29th April 1980. He was a British born film director and is widely regarded as the master of the thriller genre. He's distinct camera style and  vision allowed him to be in the Movie business for 50 years. His camera style matched that of a human's 'gaze' which made his films more involving for the audience. He created great films that became Hollywood classics such As North by Northwest (1959), Psycho (1960) and Birds(1963). He never watched his movies as he knew what they would look like shot for shot already as he storyboarded every film before he made it.
Quotes "The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them"
"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it"
"Always make the audience suffer as much as possible"

Here is a picture of Hitchcock on a poster for "Alfred Hitchcock presents..." It was a very big thing in america showing 30 minute dramas created by Hitchcock.

This is a poster from his famous film Psycho:

Defining a Thriller

As a genre Thrillers are hard to define to one exact type of film, within the thriller genre there can be sub cataories. These can include such things as horror type thriller, Crime thriller, spy thrillers , there are many variations. Thrillers are films that can have a "who done it" fel to them and can generally create alot of questions for the viewer, example of a thriller may be : Source code, The James Bond films, The bourne films , Hostage , Vantage point, Taken.
These are examples of different types of thriller's film posters:

Preliminary Task

Once we had finished our editing we had to upload our video to Youtube. We did this completing a lot of settings to do with sound, visuals ect that make the video watchable on youtube. We also published our video under the tag "Youtube" in the idea that it may get more views that way.
This is our video that we embedded from Youtube.

Editing our recorded footage

When we had finished filming our preliminary task we had to edit it together using Final cut express. The purpose of our editing was to put recorded clips together whilst also cutting out seconds of clips that are unusable or show errors whilst filming. We were able to cut out several shots showing people not concentrating or delaying their words and actions whilst we were filming. This made the conversations alot more believable and free flowing compared to the original footage that showed alot of problems such as stalling. The only problem we had was that we had an ending that was missing roughly a half of a second's worth of footage. The error occurs at the end when michael moves to go out of the door. There are two cuts that make his exit  show bad signs of continuity. We got around this problem by adding a fading effect on the two shots showing michael moving to open the door to him walking away from it and walking down the corridor , although it is a mistake it is still passable as a convincing exit from the room, as it shows the images linked together that are shown as he enters in the beginning.

This is a screen shot of us editing clips together using final cut express to make our final film.

Filming our Preliminary task

We decided to film a hitman style themed film for the Preliminary task. We were allowed to use one of the teacher's offices for our film which made the film a bit more different than others that had used a classroom.
We were able to get some good shots in that showed Michael going towards the door of the room and passing through without making it look un-believable. But at the end of the filming we had a failed attempt to film him coming out of he door. We are not sure why this happened but we are guessing that the record button was pressed twice by mistake, making it cutout certain recorded movements.
It was good to see how different camera angles can effect the conversational flow that is happening on screen, it can really help make the talking more believable as you switch from one person to the next as though you are there with them.