Monday, 24 September 2012

3 Directors in the Thriller Genre


David Fincher:  

Originally from Denver, Colorado he was born august 28th 1962. Originally he started out working on TV Commercials and music videos, he worked with the likes of Billy Idol, nine inch nails, Madonna, Aerosmith and Iggy Pop. Concerning films his most notable films are alien 3 ( his debut film), seven, the game, fight Club, Panic Room and Zodiac. His most recent work is the girl with the dragon tattoo. His movies often involve single frames that flash onto the screen in the middle of a scene, this could be shown as a flashback for a character, the use of a fluid tracking camera which allows for the audience to follow characters smoothly and quickly.


Alfred Hitchcock:

  Born 13th August 1899 in England and died the 29th April 1980 in Los Angeles, California. He was known as the master of suspense because he used various camera angles and lighting to create effects of suspense that had not been used, or not been used as much, before him. He made an appearance in all of his films as an extra, when he started doing this he would do it in the beginning so it would not deter people from the plot. Some of the films he is most known for is Vertigo and Physco. He was also very well known for using the Dolly zoom, in which when the camera moves in the zoom angle is zoomed out to keep the subject the same size but the background size changes. He used it so often that it also became known as the Hitchcock zoom.


Martin Scorsese:


 He was born on 17th November 1942 in New York. He achieved a degree in film communications in 1964. He has also achieved many awards,Academy Award, a Palme d'Or, Grammy Award, Emmys, Golden Globes, BAFTAS, and DGA Awards. The big shave was his first colour film and was his third ever film. His first film was called, “What’s a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?” although his first film that he is widely known for was mean streets. He is known for including dark themes, unsympathetic characters, religion and unusual camera techniques in his films.



Link to "The Big Shave" by Martin Scorsese- I liked this because what happens is unexpected and shows how Scorsese created quite abstract/dark things early on. 

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