1. Thriller Key Information that will contribute to the making of our Thriller Piece. In this slideshow we are looking at: Conventions Alfred Hitchcock Decades and Examples Key Information that will contribute to the making of our Thriller Piece. In this slideshow we are looking at: Conventions Alfred Hitchcock Decades and Examples

2. Conventions of a Thriller Thriller Features anticipation Ultra Heightened expectation intense excitement suspense uncertainty anxiety nerve-wracking tension Synonyms Interchangeable categorisations Thriller Genres Murder Mysteries Private Eyes Tales Chase Thrillers Women - in - Danger Courtroom Erotic Surreal Cult Film Soap Opera’s Plot Twisting Psychodrama

3. PLOT Thriller Relentlessly pursues a Single Minded goal. Keeps Audience on ‘edge of seats’ Tension is provided by key characters being in a menacing situation or mystery, trying to escape, in a dangerous mission from which escape seems impossible.

4. More Conventions Of Thriller Themes Terrorism Political Conspiracy Pursuit Romantic Triangles Murder

5. Characters Main Characters life is threatened Involved in a dangerous or potentially dangerous situation Menace is Abstract or Shadowy Convicts Criminals Stalkers Assassins Down - on - their- luck Innocent Victims Prison Inmates Menaced Women Characters With Dark Pasts Psychotic Individuals Examples Terrorists Cops Escaped Cons Fugitives Psychofiends

6. ALFRED HITCHCOCK Shapes Modern Day Thriller Silent Film The lodger 1926 (First Ever) Black Mail 1929 Cameo Appearance Auteur Master - Makes & Creates Films ( Top Title) Manipulates Audiences fears, desires, takes viewers into a state of association with the presentation of reality facing the character Puts in Taboo

7. ALFRED HITCHCOCK Includes Sexually related problems in his films Innocent victim put into life threatening situation Due to mistaken identity or wrong accusation

8. Technical Conventions Of Alfred Hitchcock Extreme Zoom Shot Long Pull Back Shot from inside buildings (e.g. Across Street) Silhouettes Groups and Pairs Surrealistic Images Technically Challenging Inevitable Life and Death Case Famous Places (e.g. UN, Statue Of Liberty, Albert Hall, Mount Rush more) Use Of Famous Actors (e.g. Gregory Peck and Grace Kelly) McGuffin Red-Herring Darker Sides of Human Nature (e.g. Sexuality, Voyeurism, Guilt, Punishment, Paranoia, Obsession) Examples of Alfred Hitchcock films, The Birds, Northbound, North West, Real Window

9. Decades and Examples 30s-40s: The Thin Man By W.S Van Dyke, Mad Love By Karl W Freud, Foreign Correspondent By Alfred Hitchcock 50s-60s: Stage Freight By Alfred Hitchcock, Kiss Me Deadly By Robert Aldich, The Nanny By Seth Holt 70s-80s: Dirty Harry By Don Siegel, Play Misty For Me By Clint Eastwood, Blow Out By Brian De Palmer 90s- 00s: Hidden Agenda By Ken Loach, One False Move By Carl Franklin, The Others By Alejandro Amenábar