North by northwest‚ by Alfred Hitchcock is a thriller that captivates due to the intrigue that raises the plot and the quality of the performance. A publicist is confused with another person. He is involved in a persecution that takes him to several cities in the United States. He is fleeing from people who want to kill him. Along the way‚ he finds a very beautiful woman who helps him. He ends up falling in love with her without knowing that she is a government agent involved in the case. The scene
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Code and convention of horror film: A horror film follows certain code and convection to achieve its purpose of scaring and alarming the audience. The following are some of them: Setting/location: The location used for this genre of a film is isolated and lonely area that has been abandoned or an area where the victim will feel vulnerable. For example small communities‚ dark streets‚ narrow alleyways‚ roads‚ woods‚ haunted places‚ farms‚ country sides and cities etc… sometimes places with ‘dark’
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1. Carpenter expressed interest in the arts‚ with a particular affinity for films from an early age. A college project entitled The Resurrection of Billy Bronco‚ which Carpenter collaborated on the script and acted as music composer‚ won an academy award in 1970. 2. John Carpenter’s works in the mid 1970’s ranged from comedy‚ sci-fi‚ and westerns‚ which Carpenter had the strongest affinity for. 3. During the production of these films‚ Carpenter worked as writer‚ director‚ composer‚ and producer
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‘The Birds’ was far most one of the most successful suspense films of its time and possibly all time. It is directed film by one of the great founding films for the horror Alfred Hitchcock. The movie was based on a novel by Daphne DuMaurier‚ I think this is a extraordinary‚ exceptional film because it does everything a suspense film should have‚ and Hitchcock went beyond. I am proceed to examined special effects such as lighting‚ color and camera techniques. Throughout the movie‚ The Birds‚ Hitchcock
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Discuss the ways in which Hitchcock sets the scene for the audience in the opening minutes of his film ’Rear Window’(1954) - 500 words Camera shots - Close up‚ medium shot‚ long shot‚ wide shot‚ framing. Camera Movements - Pan‚ track‚ crane‚ zoom‚ reverse zoom‚ tilt Editing - Cut‚ montage‚ fade in/out‚ dissolve‚ super impose‚ slow-motion Sound - Soundtrack‚ musical score‚ sound mixing and editing Other useful terms - scene‚ sequence‚ mise-en-scene‚ lighting‚ actor‚ theme‚ narrative‚ style and
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In the various types of modern music in films from the late 1940s through the early 1970s produced three general types of music‚ which is American nationalism‚ expressionism‚ and avant-garde. During this time of musical film‚ it was the advent of the film noir‚ it is a film style of cinematographic film that is shrouded by a mood of pessimism‚ fatalism‚ and menace. This term is also used to define American horror/crime films back in the 1940s. An example of film noir is “The Black Cat‚” this film
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J. J. Abrams compares/contrast Roland Barthes’ two codes for creating suspense hermeneutic and proairetic by explaining how each film has multiple “mystery boxes”. The “mystery box” is a combination of the hermeneutic and proairetic codes. He mentions that there is always question of who‚ what‚ how‚ and what happens next‚ which create suspense to keep the audience drawn into the story. His example was from Star Wars‚ the droid‚ R2-D2‚ who meets mysterious women‚ the audience does not know‚ that is
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Exam Two 1.Based on the reading and discussion‚as well as evidence from the film‚explore the relationship between Norman Bates and his mother."From Pleasure Castle to Libido Motel"ponders the idea of Normal Norman and Bad Mother and also Bad Norman and Normal mother‚amongst other combinations of who is evil and who is not and when "evil"started.Offer your own analysis on this relationship and how the muderous Norman came to fruition. In the artical written by Raymond Durgnat(1958)
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Nelsan Binnie Professor Joseph Intro To Film March 16‚ 2014 The Man Who Knew Too Much Alfred Hitchcock is sought out to be one of the world’s greatest filmmaker because he very conscious about his films. What I mean by conscious filmmaking is that Hitchcock always knew what exactly he wanted in his product from framing to camera angles to soundtrack‚ Hitchcock had a plan with his films and he pushed to get his ideal end product. In Hitchcock’s second making of The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
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Katherine Suarez Cinematic Hist: Films 50s Prof.Medaska Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Joseph Hitchcock‚ born on August 13‚ 1899‚ is one of the most famous and celebrated directors in film history along with other directors from his time like Stanley Kubrick or modern directors such as Steven Spielberg and James Cameron. Known as The Master of Suspense because his ability of creating shocking and suspenseful stories in his films. Hitchcock’s movies captured the audience’s attention and had them engaged
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