The Birds: The Use Of Narrative Films In Classical Hollywood

In the early of a Classical Hollywood, a narrative movies became very famous in 1910s to 1960s. An audience who were in the cinema and watch a movie, were expecting to watch the narrative movie that they could realise it. A filmmaker used different narrative strategies to put it together to make many narrative films in Classical Hollywood, such as taking different shots, a plot of the films, and editing the footages in the movie. Therefore, this essay will use the clip of the film called The Birds to explain how those narrative strategies can make narrative movies that audiences can watch and understand easily.

Although narrative strategies can produce an audience understand the films, a genre also can tell the audiences what type of movies it was. The genre was very complex and narrative element that audience can visualise it on the screen. Many narrative elements can be anything along the screen, just like iconography. Moreover, narrative elements can make the films look narrative. However, in the clip of The Birds, it had some problems with the time of editing that it drew the audience’s eyes could not catch up with it. Therefore, this essay will also use the clip of The Birds and explain about narrative events is very important in the process of making films. …show more content…
The clip of The Birds was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. He was one of a director who made a suspenseful movie in Hollywood. In his movies, he mostly made different films like silent and talkie. Furthermore, his film’s genres were the suspense and psychological thriller which made the audiences watched very nervous and mysterious. Hence, this essay will also analysis about Alfred Hitchcock’s methods on his