Alfred Hitchcock Presents

Suspense is a state of anxiousness or uneasiness about a situation. This tension is easily felt in movies, such as The Fellowship of the Ring.This movie is a very adventure filled and action packed story. Director makes this film very tense and makes viewers what to know what is going to happen next. Many different techniques are used to give the movie its edginess. The suspense in The Fellowship of the Ring is created through POV shots and angles, sound effects, and pace. The…

Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) portrays a man's (John’s) passion for control and the dangers of idealisation and desire. Vertigo; "a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height”1 is a metaphor of protagonist John “Scotty” Ferguson relationship with Judy Barton/Madeleine Elster. The narrative structure of Vertigo is fundamentally driven by the encounters between John and Madeleine/Judy. The relationship between the two progresses on the…

Even though film experts still debate what genre it best falls into, the 1950 Billy Wilder-directed film Sunset Boulevard is, in many respects, the archetypal film noir, and is also widely regarded as one of the most brutally honest depictions of Hollywood, by Hollywood. One of the biggest reasons Wilder’s film is viewed as such an exemplar of the film noir movement is its innovative use of lighting effects. Use of lighting can make or break a black-and-white film much more than it can one in…

JJ Abrams is a very popular director in today's cinema and widely considered as an auteur. He has helped rejuvenate the Sci-Fi genre in many ways. First off if you have seen any of JJ Abrams movies or TV series’s they all have one major similarity which is; whatever you think is going to happen next, something entirely different will happen, as the case in Lost. Also all of JJ Abrams work have been strongly character driven something that doesn’t always appear in movies, especially in the…

the term auteur is commonly used to describe a director who’s style is unique and who’s films are recognisable by that style. Various directors commonly regarded as classic examples of Hollywood auteurs include: Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock stand as examples of classic Hollywood auteurs (Yasinkutuk…

Speech: - Introduction, Name - The name and Idea’s of the movie I’m exploring (fear, courage and bravery and how challenges are overcome) - Nutshell of the movie (What Eddie the Eagle is about ) - What I will be doing during the lesson ( about the Zaption program, and how it works) - Explain how to get on to Zaption ( Web address and code needed to get in ) Prompts for Questions: - At Question One discuss : - the camera angle and how its used to…

From the films we watched this semester Vertigo and Bicycle Thieves Vertigo somehow seems to transcend these concerns and instead offers a compelling psycho-drama that has complex layers of meaning and employs carefully crafted film language to present a narrative that aligns the audience so completely with the protagonist.Perhaps the simplest application of this idea is to suggest that Scottie represents us, the audience, the spectator and the constructed version of Madeleine represents the…

Introduction One of the salient features of the film, The Avengers, is the clever dialogue exchanges between the characters. As far as movie scripts are concerned, The Avengers is, perhaps, one of those that have the wittiest lines. Despite the fact that the plots are quite predictable, the movie with its clean graphics and witty dialogue exchanges is purely entertaining. Created by Marvel Studios in 2012, The Avengers materialized Marvel’s plan to join some of their marketable comic book…

Wong Kar Wai is probably the most innovative and avant-garde director to come out of Hong Kong. As part of the second New Wave of Hong Kong cinema, Wai moved far away from the traditional, Jackie Chan and Shaw Brothers style of films, which focused on action, and explored more substantial themes, icnluding human psyche, politics and the social conditions in Hong Kong. His aesthetics are quite similar with Jean-Luc Godard and the French Wave, in general, particularly because he also took apart…

English Assignment 1 Romeo and Juliet Olwethu Masiza 16013255 Question 2 : Filmic devices This essay will discuss the different filmic devices in Romeo and Juliet, namely extreme close-up; low angle shot; tilt; zoom and flashback, and why Baz Luhrmann has chosen to use each one of these filmic devices. Luhrmann has chosen to use all these different camera shots so that he creates a meaningful scene full of mixed emotions. Extreme close up is when the camera zooms in very closely…