"North by Northwest"

Director:  Alfred Hitchcock Writer:  Ernest Lehman Stars:  Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason | See full cast and crew

I have watched the film and i thought over all it was very good thriller which is characterised by fast pacing frequent action, i could just about keep up.

It was about an innocent New York advertising executive who is mistakenly identified as a government agent by a group of foreign spies. He's then pursued across the country looking for a way to survive.

There are many ways that "North by Northwest" is an archetypal thriller at is characterised by many fast paced and frequent action. For example the most famous scene of the hole film was the plane chase where Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant) was meant to meet Kaplan, however Kaplan does not appear and instead a airplane with a deploy-able machine gun attached to it, aiming and shooting at Thornhill (Cary Grant) 

Psycho

Psycho
A young woman steals $40000 dollars from her boss then goes on the run. She then has drove so far in a long period of time, so her body needs rest so she goes to the nearest motel but little does she know that the owner of the hotel is a unusual young man with a very ill mother, creating great threat to the young Marianne.

recipe for thriller

Recipe for thriller

Thriller is a broad genre of literature film and television that includes numerous and often overlapping sub- genres. some examples of thrillers are; "The Sweeney", "Snatch"and "Taken".
Thrillers are characterized by fast pacing, frequent action, and resourceful heroes who must thwart the plans of more powerful and better equipped villains

Devices such as suspense, red herrings and cliff hangers is what makes a good thriller to come alive.

The genre is flexiable and engage the audience through a dramatic rendering of phschological, social and political tenses.

Narrative and genre

Narrative and genre

Genre
Genre is the classification of what the film is put init being, horror, thriller, comedy etc. there are many different catogories that films fall into. each 

narrative
A narrative is any account that presents connected events, and may be organized into various categories: non-fiction fictionalized accounts of historical events; and fiction proper  literature in prose, such as short stories and novels, and sometimes in poetry and drama, although in drama the events are primarily being shown instead of told. Narrative is found in all forms of human creativity and art, including speech, writing, songs, film, television, video games, photography, theatre, and visual arts such as painting, with the modern art movements refusing the narrative in favour of the abstract and conceptual that describes a sequence of events.

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene

Mise-en-scene is all about the following; costume, props, locations, lighting and performance.

The brief, coursework

The Brief 

 You have been asked to produce the titles and opening sequence of a new fiction film in thethriller genre

The sequence should last a maximum of two minutes.

You may work in a group of 2 - 4 students.

As acting is not assessed you are free to use actors that are not members of your group.

The film is worth 60% of your coursework grade.

The accompanying blog is worth 40% of your coursework grade

Together the Foundation Portfolio is worth 50% of the overall AS Level.