Thriller Film Directors

 Alfred Hitchcock 
Alfred Hitchcock was an English film director and producer. he was sometimes referred to as 'The Master of Suspense'. he completed man elements of the suspense and psychological thriller genres. He's worked on many films such as Psycho, The Birds, Vertigo and Rear Window. 

Quentin Tarantino
Quentin Tarantino is an american filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. his films are usually characterised by nonlinear story lines, an anaesthetisation of violence and gore, extended scenes of dialogue and references to popular culture. He's worked on many films such as Pulp Fiction, The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained and many more.

David Lynch
David Lynch is an american director,screenwriter and author. he is known for his surrealist films. David Lynch has created his very own TV series with Mark Frost, Twin peaks, which he also went on to make a cinema prequel, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Hes worked on many films such as Wild at Heart and The Straight story. 

Brian De Palma
Brian De Palma is also an american film director and screenwriter. hes been considered as a part of the new Hollywood wave of filmmaking. He is best known for his suspense, psychological thriller and crime films. He's worked on films such as Scarface, Carrie, The Untouchables and Dressed to Kill. 

Christopher Nolan
Christopher Nola is an English-American film director, screenwriter and producer. he is known as one of the highest-grossing directors in history and among the most successful filmmakers in the 21st century. Hes made films such as The Dark Knight, Interstellar, Inception and The Prestige. 

What does 'Thriller' mean to you?

THRILLER

To me, a Thriller is a genre of a film which causes suspense and tension. It is a genre of a film that involves a crime with a lot of events that follow after, all creating tension. 

My favourite sub genre of a thriller would be a crime thriller as I enjoy films that build tension and draw you in to the story. 

Saul bass

Saul bass

His work

To understand the importance to an opening of a thriller movie, I've done some research on Saul Bass.

Saul Bass was an american graphic designer and an academy award winning film maker, best known for his designs of motion picture title sequences, film posters and corporate logos. 

Saul started his career in Hollywood in the 1940's, creating print adverts for several movies. During Saul Bass' 40-year career he worked for some of Hollywood's greatest filmmakers. These included Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick and Billy Wilder. 

Some examples of his work can be seen below:

Saul bass also went on to make title sequences for numerous films such as:

• Psycho
• Spartacus
• Ocean's 11
• West Side Story
• Big
• Goodfellas
• Anatomy of a Murder
• Vertigo

a few examples of these title sequences can be seen below:

Saul bass has his own unique touch when creating title sequences. As you can see in his opening title sequence for 'Psycho' Bass uses fast paced music which then sets suspense mood, why is there fast paced music? what does it represent? due to this you are left to question what is going to happen in the film, you are also able to identify 'psycho' as being a thriller. Bass uses a series of simple white bars to usher in the title sequence, then they leave the screen again. Bass implies his own restrictions on 'psycho' which he does through the dramatic effect of the title sequence. The use of the bars coming on and off the screen gives the impression of something being grabbed,this is due to the fact that once they appear quickly on the screen they disappear but leaving writing on the screen, as if its been grabbed and pulled there by the bars. The entrance of the titles and how they are jaggered connotes the mind od a psychopath that is conflicted and often has multiple personalities. 
Another example of Saul bass' unique touch to his title sequences can be seen through his title sequence for 'Vertigo.' Bass uses 

  

Brief

THE BRIEF:

Preliminary exercise: Continuity task involving filming and editing a character opening a door, crossing a room and sitting down in a chair opposite another character, with whom she/he then exchanges a couple of lines of dialogue. This task should demonstrate match-on-action, shot/reverse shot and the 180-degree rule. 

Main task: The titles and opening of a new fiction film, to last a maximum of two minutes. 

my blog should take into consideration of all the key areas:

• Forms and conventions
• Production contexts
• Role of technologies
• Audience/users
• Representations

Welcome to my blog

Hello, welcome to my blog. 
My names Caitlin and I have just started my year 12 AS media course in my sixth form college.
Today was my first lesson of media where we discussed what we will be doing for the next year in media, throughout the next year we will be planning and making a short thriller film.
Throughout the lesson I also set up this blog which I'll be using to track the making of the thriller film.